Enhancement of Power Quality of Single Stage Grid Connected PV System by Using Takagi-Sugeno-Kang Fuzzy Controllers

Abstract

Grid connected solar power plants are widely established in many places worldwide. Photovoltaic (PV) based grid connected solar plants are attracting recently due to improved in controlling of power converters. Single stage grid connected systems can reduce number of converters connected in power plants which resultant in reduce cost of the system. However, DC to DC converters are generally used in PV systems to enhance the operation of maximum power point for best utilization. The inverters also can be using to extract maximum power from PV systems through new controlling techniques in power electronics devises. Therefore an extraDC to DC converter is not required to make PV at its maximum power point condition. However, this technology can be used for small scale solar power plants since all PV arrays in solar power plant cannot be received same irradiance. Takagi-Sugeno-Kang (TSK) fuzzy controlleris having significant priority than proportional plus integral controllers when rapid changes are having in input. Hence, TSK based single stage controller is developed in this paper for grid connected 1MW solar plant. Generally distribution system is connected with unbalanced loads, hence these unbalanced loads will create forcefully unbalanced currents in electrical grid. Unbalanced grid currents further create many problems to other loads. Therefore, the proposed controller is designed to help making grid currents balanced during unbalanced local loads. Further, the inverter can compensate reactive power demanded by local loads to minimize reactive power supplied by grid. Extensive results are presented and evaluated through hardware-in-loop on the platform of OPAL-RT to enhance the performance of proposed controller for 1MW grid connected solar plant.

Keywords

• photovoltaic
• hardware-in-loop
• single stage
• mppt