Abstract
Because of the worldwide trend of microgrid (MG) and renewable energy (RE)-based distributed power generation (DG), advanced power flow control schemes with wide bandgap (WBG) semiconductor technologies to ensure high-level performance of grid-connected MGs is one of the crucial research topics. In grid-connected MGs, a static switch (SS) is commonly used at the point of common coupling (PCC) of two systems. In this paper, the role of SS is replaced by a SiC-based three-phase back-to-back (BTB) inverter system for seamless switching between grid-connected and standalone modes through advanced power flow control schemes. According to scenarios of different grid/load conditions and available DG capacities in an MG, various advanced control functions can be developed for both MG operating modes: bidirectional control of active and reactive power flows, seamless switching between operating modes, improvement of grid power quality (PQ), and voltage stabilization. In this paper, mathematical models of the BTB inverter in a synchronous reference frame (SRF) is first derived, and the required controllers are then designed. For functional testing, two typical cases are simulated and analyzed in a MATLAB/Simulink environment and then verified through 1kVA small-scale hardware implementation with Texas Instruments (TI) digital signal processor (DSP) TMS320LF2812 as the control core. Results show satisfactory performances of power flow control and PQ improvement of MG.
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