TY - GEN
T1 - A Model Predictive Control technique for utility-scale grid connected battery systems using packed U cells multilevel inverter
AU - Xiao, Shunlong
AU - Metry, Morcos
AU - Trabelsi, Mohamed
AU - Balog, Robert S.
AU - Abu-Rub, Haitham
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.
PY - 2016/12/21
Y1 - 2016/12/21
N2 - Grid-connected energy storage systems have been implemented in ac power systems as uninterruptable power supplies (UPS). Batteries and bi-directional power converters provide electrical power when off-grid and recharge when grid-connected. In this paper, a packed U cells (PUC) seven-level inverter has been selected as the grid-interface due to the lower cost and fewer number of components compared to other bi-directional topologies. Additionally, the PUC has higher power quality when compared to the traditional H-bridge. Compared to the traditional PI controller, Model Predictive Control (MPC) is attracting more interest due to its good dynamic response and high accuracy of reference tracking. Through the minimization of a user-defined cost function, the proposed MPC technique can simultaneously achieve unity power factor, low total harmonics distortion of the grid-side current and balance the PUC capacitor's voltages at the grid side, and control bi-directional power flow in the batteries-PUC system. The presented topology and proposed control technique are verified by simulating a 600 W reduced-scale prototype. The theoretical principles are validated by implementing the controller on the prototype using dSPACE 1007 platform.
AB - Grid-connected energy storage systems have been implemented in ac power systems as uninterruptable power supplies (UPS). Batteries and bi-directional power converters provide electrical power when off-grid and recharge when grid-connected. In this paper, a packed U cells (PUC) seven-level inverter has been selected as the grid-interface due to the lower cost and fewer number of components compared to other bi-directional topologies. Additionally, the PUC has higher power quality when compared to the traditional H-bridge. Compared to the traditional PI controller, Model Predictive Control (MPC) is attracting more interest due to its good dynamic response and high accuracy of reference tracking. Through the minimization of a user-defined cost function, the proposed MPC technique can simultaneously achieve unity power factor, low total harmonics distortion of the grid-side current and balance the PUC capacitor's voltages at the grid side, and control bi-directional power flow in the batteries-PUC system. The presented topology and proposed control technique are verified by simulating a 600 W reduced-scale prototype. The theoretical principles are validated by implementing the controller on the prototype using dSPACE 1007 platform.
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U2 - 10.1109/IECON.2016.7793712
DO - 10.1109/IECON.2016.7793712
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85010075884
T3 - IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)
SP - 5953
EP - 5958
BT - Proceedings of the IECON 2016 - 42nd Annual Conference of the Industrial Electronics Society
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 42nd Conference of the Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 2016
Y2 - 24 October 2016 through 27 October 2016
ER -