Mode-triggered droop method for the decentralized energy management of an islanded hybrid PV/hydrogen/battery DC microgrid

Ying Han, Hanqing Yang, Qi Li, Weirong Chen, Firuz Zare and Josep M. Guerrero

Energy, 2020, vol. 199, issue C

Abstract: In a hydrogen-based DC microgrid (MG), the integration of hydrogen subsystem increases the system complexity and flexibility. Effective power split, bus voltage stability and reliable operation become significant control issues of hydrogen-based DC MG. This paper proposes a simple and effective decentralized energy management strategy based on a mode-triggered droop scheme for an islanded PV/hydrogen/battery DC MG. In a decentralized manner, the proposed decentralized energy management strategy is implemented through two control steps: mode divisions and droop control. For practical implementation purposes of the proposed energy management strategy, the mode divisions scheme autonomously divides this DC MG into eight operating modes based on the system local information; the adaptive droop control method controls the distributed generation units based on their droop relationships under different operating modes. In addition, an islanded DC MG hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) RT-LAB simulation platform and a lab-scaled experimental platform are built to validate the effectiveness of the proposed decentralized strategy. The simulation and experiment results show that the proposed energy management strategy has an efficient power distribution ability without communication link under various operating modes.

Keywords: Islanded DC microgrid; Fuel cell; Energy management strategy; Mode-triggered droop scheme; Hardware-in-loop simulation; Lab-scaled experimental platform (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2020.117441

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