Experimental Validation of Peer-to-Peer Distributed Voltage Control System

Hamada Almasalma, Sander Claeys, Konstantin Mikhaylov, Jussi Haapola, Ari Pouttu and Geert Deconinck
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Hamada Almasalma: Departement Elektrotechniek, KU Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 10, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
Sander Claeys: Departement Elektrotechniek, KU Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 10, 3001 Leuven, Belgium
Konstantin Mikhaylov: Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC), University of Oulu, 90014 Oulu, Finland
Jussi Haapola: Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC), University of Oulu, 90014 Oulu, Finland
Ari Pouttu: Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC), University of Oulu, 90014 Oulu, Finland
Geert Deconinck: Departement Elektrotechniek, KU Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 10, 3001 Leuven, Belgium

Energies, 2018, vol. 11, issue 5, 1-22

Abstract: This paper presents experimental validation of a distributed optimization-based voltage control system. The dual-decomposition method is used in this paper to solve the voltage optimization problem in a fully distributed way. Device-to-device communication is implemented to enable peer-to-peer data exchange between agents of the proposed voltage control system. The paper presents the design, development and hardware setup of a laboratory-based testbed used to validate the performance of the proposed dual-decomposition-based peer-to-peer voltage control. The architecture of the setup consists of four layers: microgrid, control, communication, and monitoring. The key question motivating this research was whether distributed voltage control systems are a technically effective alternative to centralized ones. The results discussed in this paper show that distributed voltage control systems can indeed provide satisfactory regulation of the voltage profiles.

Keywords: peer-to-peer; distributed control; device-to-device communication; voltage control; experimentation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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