Abstract
Insulation monitoring is crucial to personal safety and equipment operation in the power distribution system. Recently, with the rapid development of distributed generators, the three-phase voltage-source PWM converter (VSC) is widely used as the bidirectional interface between the dc microgrids and the distribution networks. This paper presents the relationship between the response of insulation monitoring device (IMD) and the neutral-point voltage deviation (NPVD) of VSC, by analyzing the disturbances of the switching function and the dc-side insulation balancing. Then, a method of detecting the NPVD for grid-connected VSC is proposed, based on the dc signal injection and the Duffing oscillator. Furthermore, the proposed method takes the mean and spectrum of the neutral-point voltage as the primal characteristics. Thus, the dc signal injection is adopted to detect the mean of the neutral-point voltage, and the Duffing oscillator is adopted to determine the frequency disturbance of the neutral-point voltage, respectively. The test result confirms the existence of the neutral-point voltage deviation and verifies the availability of the proposed method. Hence, the proposed method could be used to improve the response of IMD.
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