Reduced Battery Usage in a Hybrid Battery and Photovoltaic Stand-Alone DC Microgrid with Flexible Power Point Tracking

Hein Wai Yan, Aditi Narang, Hossein Dehghani Tafti, Glen G. Farivar, Josep Pou

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Abstract

A hybrid control strategy for photovoltaic (PV) system and energy storage system (ESS) in a dc microgrid is proposed in this paper. The proposed control strategy minimizes the utilization of ESS in order to prolong the battery lifetime, reduce the total system power losses, and maintain the state-of-charge (SoC) of the battery within a desired range as long as the required power from PV is available. In contrast to the conventional control strategies that regulate the dc bus voltage with the ESS, the proposed control strategy exploits the use of both PV and ESS in regulating the dc bus voltage. It also employs an advanced flexible power point tracking algorithm for the PV system to further enhance the dynamic performance of the system by adaptively adjusting the PV output power according to the load profile.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationECCE 2020 - IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages3894-3899
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781728158266
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Oct 11 2020
Event12th Annual IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2020 - Virtual, Detroit, United States
Duration: Oct 11 2020Oct 15 2020

Publication series

NameECCE 2020 - IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition

Conference

Conference12th Annual IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2020
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityVirtual, Detroit
Period10/11/2010/15/20

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE.

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Control and Optimization
  • Energy Engineering and Power Technology

Keywords

  • Battery state-of-charge (SoC)
  • dc microgrid (dcMG)
  • energy storage system (ESS)
  • flexible power point tracking (FPPT)
  • photovoltaic (PV) systems

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