Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS
Volume 34, Issue 6, Pages 5953-5968Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2018.2869870
Keywords
Adaptive virtual impedance; circulating current; droop control; modular uninterruptible power supply (UPS) system; power sharing
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- Microgrid Research Program at Aalborg University
- company Salicru S.A., Barcelona under the cooperation project TROY
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In this paper, an average active power sharing control strategy based on the distributed concept for the parallel operation of voltage source inverters is proposed to be applied to the modular uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems. The presented method is named distributed adaptive virtual impedance control (DAVIC), which is coordinated with the droop control method. Low bandwidth CAN-based communication is used for the requirement of data sharing of the proposed method in the real modular UPS system. Unlike the conventional virtual impedance control techniques, the virtual impedance of a converter module is adjusted automatically by using global information when DAVIC is applied, further to tune the output impedance of the power modules. The adaptive virtual impedance is calculated by using the difference between the active power of a local module and the average active power of all the modules in a modular UPS. The DAVIC overcomes the drawback of the conventional virtual impedance control since an accurate value of the real output impedances of different converter modules is not required. Simulations using PLECS and experiments on a real commercial modular UPS are developed to verify the effectiveness of the proposed control methodology. These results shown a superior power sharing performance is obtained when using the proposed method.
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