Fault Analysis on Photo Voltaic Fed Grid Connected Systems

Abstract:

This work presents a photovoltaic (PV) system, connected to a three phase grid. This work focuses on fault analysis in a grid connected photo-voltaic (PV) energy system. In this work, a three phase Multi-level Inverter connected with an AC grid fed by photovoltaic systems with advanced sine PWM control scheme is presented. The proposed modulation technique uses single reference signal and number of high frequency carrier signals to generate the PWM signal. Now a days, most of the photovoltaic (PV) power sources are connected to the AC grid. When photovoltaic power sources are connected to grid, the grid connected PV system is affected by various power quality issues like voltage sag, voltage swell, voltage disturbances, waveform distortions and three phase fault. One of the main power quality problems is three phase fault and it is appeared in the grid due to short circuit condition between two phases and ground. Fault analysis is carried out by creating a LG, LL, LLL and LLLG fault in the grid connected systems. Grid side voltage, current and power waveforms at the grid side are analysed with fault conditions. A detailed simulation has been done for the Multi-Level Inverter and the validation of system is verified through MATLAB/SIMULINK and the results are presented.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 984-985)
• Pages: 1013-1022
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.984-985.1013
• Online since: July 2014
• Authors: Venkatesan Jamuna*, Natesan Saritha, NANTHINI N
• Keywords: Grid Connected System, Modulation Scheme, Multi-Level Inverter, Photo Voltaic (PV) Systems, Three Phase Fault, Total Harmonic Distortion (THD)

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