Active power filter module function to improve power quality conditions using GWO and PSO techniques for solar photovoltaic arrays and battery energy storage systems

Abstract

This study aims to unbalanced power quality (PQ) conditions analysis of solar photovoltaic arrays and battery energy storage system (PV-BESS) integrated active power filter module (APFM). Here, the APFM's role is to mitigate the PQ issues that existed by the nonlinear loads. The standalone PV-APFM design is negligibly reliable approximated to a hybrid PV-BESS system because of its fluctuation and high environmental reliance. Further, here the research challenge is to optimise the APFM controller gain coefficients by the grey wolf optimization (GWO) algorithm and apply this technique to current and voltage harmonic loops (CHL-VHL) to achieve the best answer to enhance the unbalanced PQ conditions. The multi-objective functions (MOFs) to crack the problem include the total harmonic distortion (THD) of current and voltage components. The particle swarm optimization (PSO) approach will be considered a complementary method for validation and comparison with the outcomes obtained from the GWO procedure. Four case studies in imbalance conditions have been considered to confirm the proposed method in MATLAB-Simulink software.