Simulation and real-time implementation of a combined control strategy-based shunt active power filter in microgrid

Abstract

Renewable energy is rapidly being employed in power networks to meet energy demands, changing the traditional power distribution system into a microgrid (MG)-based system. Additionally, nonlinear loads in the MG system have a tendency to produce undesirable power quality (PQ) problems that need to be properly addressed. In the present work, the MG system is designed using solar PV, wind energy, and fuel cell-based distributed generations, and the PQ concerns of the MG system are addressed in the presence of a combined control technique-based shunt active power filter (SAPF). The combined control technique used for the generation of compensating current of SAPF consists of a negative feedback phase locked loop (NFPLL) based modified synchronous reference frame (MSRF) technique for improving the synchronization performance of SAPF, fuzzy inverted error deviation (FIED) based dc-link voltage controller and adaptive fuzzy hysteresis current controller (AFHCC) based switching pulse generation. The conventional MSRF method, HCC methodology, and fuzzy logic controller (FLC) approach are used by the majority of SAPFs to generate the compensating current for SAPF, but these methods do not completely eliminate harmonics. Hence, in this work, a FIED based control approach is used to improve the performance of SAPF by controlling the $V_{DC}$under load changing condition. Apart from FIED technique, NFPLL based MSRF technique is used for quickly and accurately extracts the reference signal during load perturbations and AFHCC scheme is used for switching pulse generation. The suggested combined control strategy (NFPLL-MSRF-FIED-AFHCC) is first evaluated on the MATLAB/Simulink environment and then validated on the OPAL-RT 4510 real-time digital simulator platform. The simulation and real-time outcomes show that the proposed technique works effectively in different scenarios.