In recent years, DC microgrid has attracted considerable attention of the research community because of the wide usage of DC power-based appliances. However, the acceptance of DC microgrid by power utilities is still limited due to the issues associated with the development of a reliable protection scheme. The high magnitude of DC fault current, its rapid rate of rising and absence of zero cros...

This work includes a high step up voltage gain DC-DC converter for DC microgrid applications. The DC microgrid can be utilized for rural electrification, UPS support, Electronic lighting systems and Electrical vehicles. The whole system consists of a Photovoltaic panel (PV), High step up DC-DC converter with Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) and DC microgrid. The entire system is optimized wi...

The issue of frequency stability of microgrids under islanded operation mode and mode transfer has attracted particular attention recently. In this paper, a cooperative frequency control method, which consists of a microgrid central control (MGCC) and microgrid local control (MGLC), is proposed to achieve a seamless transfer from grid-connected to islanded mode, and hence increase the frequency...

A microgrid is composed of distributed power generation systems (DGs), distributed energy storage devices (DSs), and loads. To maintain a specific frequency in the island mode as an important requirement, the control of DGs output and charge action of DGs are used in supply surplus conditions and load-shedding and discharge action of DGs are used in supply shortage conditions. Recently, multiag...

The present manuscript concentrates on the application of Fog computing to a Smart Grid Network that comprises of a Distribution Generation System known as a Microgrid. It addresses features and advantages of a smart grid. Two computational methods for on-demand processing based on shared information resources is discussed. Fog Computing acts as an additional layer of computational and/or commu...

---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract The interconnection of small modular devices such as photovoltaic, small wind turbines and storage devices ,commonly storage batteries to a Low Voltage distribution system leads to a new energy system known as the Microgrid. This paper presents the...

-In the micro-grid, droop control strategy simulates traditional power system droop characteristics , by changing the output of active and reactive power to control the output voltage frequency and amplitude, thus the micro-grid system can work at the stabilize voltage point in island operation mode . And the voltage is more or less with the grid-connect mode,so that the transition is smooth wh...

One of complementary value propositions of microgrids is to improve power system resiliency via local supply of loads and curtailment reduction. This subject is investigated in this paper by proposing a resiliency-oriented microgrid optimal scheduling model. The proposed model aims at minimizing the microgrid load curtailment by efficiently scheduling available resources when supply of power fr...

A high-performance photovoltaic (PV)-battery hybrid power conversion system (HPCS) which is integrated to a microgrid using a quasi-Z-source inverter (qZSI). The battery system is directly connected to the intermediate dc link of the qZSI without any further converter which reduces the size and the cost of the power electronic interface. A controller equipped with a vocal compensator is designe...

This paper presents an algorithm for the microgrid planning as an alternative to the co-optimization of generation and transmission expansion planning in electric power systems. The integration of microgrids in distribution systems will offer a decentralized control of local resources for satisfying the network reliability and the power quality required by local loads. The objective in this pap...