Power Quality Enhancement in Grid-Connected PV/Wind/Battery Using UPQC: Atom Search Optimization

Abstract

Nowadays, the integration of hybrid renewable energy system (HRES) in grid connected load system are encouraged to increase reliability and reduce losses. The HRES system is connected to the grid system to meet required load demand and the integrated design creates the power quality (PQ) issues in the system due to non-linear load, critical load and unbalanced load conditions. Hence, in this paper, atom search optimization (ASO) with unified power quality conditioner (UPQC) is designed to solve the PQ issues in HRES system. The main objective of the work is the mitigation of PQ issues and compensate load demand in HRES system. The PQ issue problems are solved with the help of UPQC device in the system. The UPQC performance is increased by introducing fractional order proportional integral derivative (FOPID) with ASO based controller in series and shunt active power filter to mitigate PQ issues of current and voltage. Initially, HRES is designed with photovoltaic (PV) system, wind turbine (WT) and battery energy storage system (BESS) which connected with the load system. To analysis the presentation of the proposed controller structure, the non-linear load is connected with the system to create PQ issues in the system. The PQ issues are mitigated and load demand is reimbursed with the assistance of HRES system. The proposed method is employed in the MATLAB/Simulink platform and performances were analysed. Three different cases are used to validate the performance of the proposed method such as Sag, Swell, and disturbances. Additionally, total harmonic distortion (THD) is analysed. The proposed method is compared with existing methods of proportional integral (PI) controller, gravitational search algorithm (GSA), biogeography based optimisation (BBO), grey wolf optimization (GWO), extended search algorithm (ESA), random forest algorithm (RFA) and genetic algorithm (GA).