An Improved Hybrid Micro-Grid Load Frequency Control Scheme for an Autonomous System

Abstract

This paper presents an improved hybrid micro-grid load frequency control scheme for an autonomous system. The micro-grid system comprises of renewable and non-renewable energy-based Power Generating Units (PGU) which consist of Solar Photovoltaic, WT Generator, Solar Thermal Power Generator, Diesel Engine Generator, Fuel Cell (FC) with Aqua Electrolizer (AE). However, power produce from renewable sources in microgrid are intermittent in supply, hence make it difficult to maintain power balance between generated power and demand. Therefore, Battery energy storage system, ultra-capacitor and flywheel energy storage systems make up the energy storage units. These separate units are selected and combined to form two different scenarios in this study. This approach mitigates frequency fluctuations during disturbances (sudden load changes) by ensuring balance between the generated power and demand. For each scenario, Moth flame optimization algorithm optimized Proportional-Integral controllers were utilized to control the micro-grid (to minimize fluctuations from the output power of the non-dispatchable sources and from sudden load change). The results of the developed scheme were compared with that of Quasi-Oppositional Harmony Search Algorithm for overshoot and settling time of the frequency deviation. From the results obtained, the proposed scheme outperformed that of the quasi-oppositional harmony search algorithm optimized controller by an average percentage improvement of 35.95% and 28.76% in the case of overshoot and settling time when the system step input was suddenly increased. All modelling analysis were carried out in MATLAB R2019b environment. Keywords—Frequency Deviation, Micro-grid, Moth flame optimization algorithm, Quasi-Oppositional Harmony Search Algorithm.

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