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    Review of Harmonic Mitigation Methods in Microgrid: From a Hierarchical Control Perspective

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    Reactive power sharing and voltage harmonic distortion compensation of droop controlled single phase islanded microgrids

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    When paralleling multiple inverters that are capable of operating as an island, the inverters typically employ the droop control scheme. Traditional droop control enables the decentralized regulation of the local voltage and frequency of the microgrid by the inverters. The droop method also enables the inverters to share the real and reactive power required by the loads. This paper focuses on some of the limitations of parallel islanded single phase inverters using droop control. Algorithms with the aim to address the following limitations in islanded operation were proposed: reactive power sharing and reduction of the voltage harmonic distortion at the point of common coupling (PCC). Experimental results were then presented to show the suitability of the proposed algorithms in achieving reactive power sharing and in improving the voltage harmonic distortion at the PCC.peer-reviewe

    An Enhanced Power Sharing Scheme for Voltage unbalance and harmonics compensation in an islanded AC microgrid

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    Three-phase primary control for unbalance sharing between distributed generation units in a microgrid

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    For islanded microgrids, droop-based control concepts have been developed both in single and three-phase variants. The three-phase controllers often assume a balanced network, hence, unbalance sharing and/or mitigation remains a challenging issue. Therefore, in this paper, unbalance is considered in a three-phase islanded microgrid where the distributed generation (DG) units are operated by the voltage-based droop (VBD) control. For this purpose, the VBD control, which has been developed for single-phase systems, is extended for three phase application and an additional control loop is added for unbalance mitigation and sharing. The method is based on an unbalance mitigation scheme by DG units in grid-connected systems, which is altered for usage in grid-forming DG units with droop control. The reaction of the DG units to unbalance is determined by the main parameter of the additional control loop, viz, the distortion damping resistance Rd. The effect of Rd on the unbalance mitigation is studied in this paper, i.e., dependent on Rd, the DG units can be resistive for unbalance (RU) or they can contribute in the weakest phase (CW). The paper shows that the RU method decreases the line losses in the system and achieves better power equalization between the DG unit's phases. However, it leads to a larger voltage unbalance near the loads. The CW method leads to a more uneven power between the DG unit's phases and larger line losses, but a better voltage quality near the load. However, it can negatively affect the stability of the system. In microgrids with multiple DG units, the distortion damping resistance is set such that the unbalanced load can be shared between multiple DG units in an actively controlled manner rather than being determined by the microgrid configuration solely. The unit with the lowest distortion resistance provides relatively more of the unbalanced currents

    Selective virtual capacitive impedance loop for harmonic voltage compensation in islanded microgrids

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    Parallel inverters having LCL output filters cause voltage distortions at the point of common coupling (PCC) in islanded microgrids when non-linear loads are present. A capacitive virtual impedance loop could be used to provide selective harmonic compensation in islanded microgrids, instead of introducing additional active or passive filters into the system that could compromise the stability of the microgrid. However, the performance of these compensation loops becomes degraded when a virtual resistance is introduced with the aim to improve the overall stability of the parallel inverters. With the capacitive virtual impedance, there is effectively a compromise between the additional stability provided by the virtual resistance and the harmonic compensation due to the virtual capacitance. This paper focuses on overcoming this limitation of the capacitive virtual impedance with additional virtual resistance for selective harmonic compensation in islanded microgrids. Simulation results were given to show the suitability of the proposed algorithms in reducing the voltage harmonics at the PCC.peer-reviewe
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