As the deployment of distributed generation continues, an increasing number of DC/AC power inverters will be interfaced into the electric grid. Groupings of these power inverters, along with distributed storage and load, are referred to as microgrids. Microgrids offer the potential for unprecedented reliability and flexibility, but also pose new control challenges. Inverters in microgrids must ...

This paper is concerned with the control strategy for the parallel operation of distributed generation systems (DGS) in a standalone AC power supply. The proposed control method uses only low-bandwidth data communication signals between each generation system in addition to the locally measurable feedback signals. This is achieved by combining two control methods: droop control method and avera...

This paper proposes a new adaptive instantaneous average current sharing technique for load and minimizing circulating among parallel-connected converters in LV islanded DC microgrid. control is common parallel inverters AC systems, however, its use networks has not been reported the open literature. Unfortunately, conventional controller does come up with expected improvements terms of regulat...

In this paper, a parallel modular multi-inverter (PMMI) topology is proposed to supply high power for wireless charging electric vehicles (EVs). A major challenge in the implementation of PMMI zero-voltage switching (ZVS) all inverters avoid high-frequency losses. Therefore, centralized-ZVS control and master–slave frequency following (MSFF) strategy are presented realize ZVS PMMIs by single co...

An electrolytic capacitors used as a decoupling reservoir which restrict the lifetime of photovoltaic (PV) micro inverters. This has led to the development of several improved decoupling circuits that can reduce the capacitor value to allow the use of non electrolytic types. The project focus on selection of the minimum decoupling capacitor value for the proper operation of discontinuous conduc...

Cascade Multilevel Inverters are very popular and have many applications in electric utility and for industrial drives. When these inverters are used for industrial drive directly, the THD contents in output voltage of inverters is very significant index as the performance of drive depends very much on the quality of voltage applied to drive. In this article, the THD contents of 7, 11 and 15 le...

The concept of multilevel inverters introduced about 20 years ago entails performing power conversion in multiple voltage steps to obtain improved power quality, lower switching losses, better electromagnetic compatibility, and higher voltage capability. The benefits are especially clear for medium-voltage drives in industrial applications and are being considered for future naval ship propulsi...

Smart inverters are studied in both the dynamic/transient and steady state in a simulation environment. Using EPRI OpenDSS, five real California feeders are simulated over a 95 day period while the PV penetration and smart inverter fraction are varied. From the simulations, it is shown that smart inverters operating under different Volt/VAr based control schemes improve feeder conditions. The i...

This paper presents the simulation of 3, 5, 7level inverters. The realization of these three different levels is done by cascading one, two, three H-bridges in series respectively in MATLAB. The use of simple control strategy which is applied for switching the switches at appropriate conducting angles with proper delays is presented in this paper. The reduction in harmonics is done with the hel...