Journal
ENERGIES
Volume 11, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/en11082096
Keywords
time domain; photovoltaic energy sources; periodic steady state; limit cycle; numerical differentiation method; cubic splines
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- CONACYT
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This paper proposes a fast and accurate time domain (TD) methodology for the assessment of the dynamic and periodic steady state operation of microgrids with photovoltaic (PV) energy sources. The proposed methodology uses the trapezoidal rule (TR) technique to integrate the set of first-order differential algebraic equations (DAE), generated by the entire electrical system. The Numerical Differentiation (ND) method is used to significantly speed-up the process of convergence of the state variables to the limit cycle with the fewest number of possible time steps per cycle. After that, the cubic spline interpolation (CSI) algorithm is used to reconstruct the steady state waveform obtained from the ND method and to increase the efficiency of the conventional TR method. This curve-fitting algorithm is used only once at the end part of the algorithm. The ND-CSI can be used to assess stability, power quality, dynamic and periodic steady state operation, fault and transient conditions, among other issues, of microgrids with PV sources. The results are successfully validated through direct comparison against those obtained with the PSCAD/EMTDC simulator, widely accepted by the power industry.
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