This paper presents the design and development of a Multiconverter System based on a Microgrid comprised of a DC bus and static power converters DC-DC and DC-AC. This system is located at the Power Systems Control Laboratory (LACSPOT) at Federal University of Pará (UFPA).
The Multiconverter System consists in three power converters, two in step-down Buck topology and the third a three-phase inverter. The first converter feeds a direct current voltage controlled bus that provides voltage to a second Buck converter.
On the second Buck converter is also applied a voltage control strategy in order to maintain a constant power supply. The three-phase inverter is also powered by a DC bus can be connected to the local power grid, allowing studies with grid-tied systems and distributed generation.
To test the buck converter studied in this work, were developed digital controllers, based on indirect digital control design method. Both controllers were developed using the output voltages as feedback signals in order to maintain the voltage and power as constant as possible, on the primary and secondary converters, respectively. Besides inner difficult in systems with parametric uncertainties and nonlinearities shown in power converters, the power converter with voltage control also feeds the second power converter. That introduces non-linear characteristics that may cause bar voltage instability. For that reason, it is necessary to develop a control strategy with the goal of keeping the voltage near to the voltage bus reference. To sum up, several tests were performed both in computer simulation, as in the real system in order to check the effectiveness of control techniques studied and applied. The obtained results shown that the Multiconverter System was able to provide a good performance under the designed control strategy.
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