Control Strategy for Vanadium Redox Battery Inverter in Islanding Microgrid

Abstract:

Microgrid is one of the promising solutions to interconnecting the renewable energy in the form of Distributed Generation with the utility grid, where the inverter control strategy for battery is essential. In this paper, a dual-loop control strategy is proposed for Vanadium Redox Battery inverter in islanding mode. The dual-loop control strategy consists of an inner-loop current control and an outer-loop voltage control, both of which adopt the classical PI controller. Further, the strategy applied in transient mode is also discussed. The proposed dual-loop control strategy has been tested in MATLAB/Simulink simulations and experimentally on a laboratory-scale system.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 433-440)
• Pages: 5794-5800
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.433-440.5794
• Online since: January 2012
• Authors: Feng Zhou, Ke Wang, Jian Ye Chen, Hua Zhang
• Keywords: Distributed Generation (DG), Inverter, Islanding Mode, Microgrids (MGs), Vanadium Redox Battery

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