Enhanced Load Power Sharing Accuracy in Droop-Controlled DC Microgrids with Both Mesh and Radial Configurations

Yiqi Liu, Jianze Wang, Ningning Li, Yu Fu and Yanchao Ji
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Yiqi Liu: School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
Jianze Wang: School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
Ningning Li: School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
Yu Fu: School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China
Yanchao Ji: School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China

Energies, 2015, vol. 8, issue 5, 1-15

Abstract: The rational power sharing among different interface converters should be determined by the converter capacity. In order to guarantee that each converter operates at the ideal condition, considering the radial and mesh configuration, a modified strategy for load power sharing accuracy enhancement in droop-controlled DC microgrid is proposed in this paper. Two compensating terms which include averaging output power control and averaging DC voltage control of neighboring converters are employed. Since only the information of the neighboring converter is used, the complexity of the communication network can be reduced. The rational distribution of load power for different line resistance conditions is realized by using modified droop control that can be regarded as a distributed approach. Low bandwidth communication is used for exchanging sampled information between different converters. The feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method for different network configurations and line resistances under different communication delay is analyzed in detail. Simulation results derived from a DC microgrid with three converters is implemented in MATLAB/Simulink to verify the proposed approach. Experimental results from a 3 × 10 kW prototype also show the performance of the proposed modified droop control scheme.

Keywords: DC microgrid; communication delay; droop control; load power sharing; mesh configuration; radial configuration (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: 2015
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