Browsing by Author "Karthik, R.P."

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Battery-ultracapacitor storage devices to mitigate power fluctuations for grid connected PV system
(2016) Jayalakshmi, N.S.; Gaonkar, D.N.; Kumar, J.V.; Karthik, R.P.
This paper presents a control strategy based on energy storage systems to minimize the output power fluctuations for a PV system. Solar energy is naturally intermittent with stochastic fluctuations, by virtue of which, stability and power quality of grid operation are affected. This makes grid integration of PV system cumbersome. The aim of this study is to develop a control strategy to deliver smoothened power to the grid, using battery and ultracapacitors for a grid connected hybrid system. The fluctuating power is absorbed by a battery and ultracapacitors during erratic solar power variation, thus being able to mitigate the power fluctuations to the grid. Bidirectional converters are used in tandem with a battery and ultracapacitors to ensure active energy flow between the grid and the storage systems. The inverter control strategy is implemented such that it will maintain a constant DC link voltage. The PV power system is controlled to extract maximum power. Dynamic modeling and simulation study are accomplished using MATLAB/Simulink. � 2015 IEEE.
Battery-ultracapacitor storage devices to mitigate power fluctuations for grid connected PV system
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016) Sabhahit, N.S.; Gaonkar, D.N.; Jhunjhunwala, J.V.; Karthik, R.P.
This paper presents a control strategy based on energy storage systems to minimize the output power fluctuations for a PV system. Solar energy is naturally intermittent with stochastic fluctuations, by virtue of which, stability and power quality of grid operation are affected. This makes grid integration of PV system cumbersome. The aim of this study is to develop a control strategy to deliver smoothened power to the grid, using battery and ultracapacitors for a grid connected hybrid system. The fluctuating power is absorbed by a battery and ultracapacitors during erratic solar power variation, thus being able to mitigate the power fluctuations to the grid. Bidirectional converters are used in tandem with a battery and ultracapacitors to ensure active energy flow between the grid and the storage systems. The inverter control strategy is implemented such that it will maintain a constant DC link voltage. The PV power system is controlled to extract maximum power. Dynamic modeling and simulation study are accomplished using MATLAB/Simulink. Â© 2015 IEEE.
Intermittent power smoothing control for grid connected hybrid wind/PV system using battery-EDLC storage devices
(Polish Academy of Sciences 12 Smetna Street Krakow 31-343, 2020) Sabhahit, N.S.; Gaonkar, D.N.; Karthik, R.P.; Prasanna, P.
Wind and solar radiation are intermittent with stochastic fluctuations, which can influence the stability of operation of the hybrid system in the grid integrated mode of operation. In this research work, a smoothing control method for mitigating output power variations for a grid integrated wind/PV hybrid system using a battery and electric double layer capacitor (EDLC) is investigated. The power fluctuations of the hybrid system are absorbed by a battery and EDLC during wide variations in power generated from the solar and wind system, subsequently, the power supplied to the grid is smoothened. This makes higher penetration and incorporation of renewable energy resources to the utility system possible. The control strategy of the inverter is realized to inject the power to the utility system with the unity power factor and a constant DC bus voltage. Both photovoltaic (PV) and wind systems are controlled for extracting maximum output power. In order to observe the performance of the hybrid system under practical situations in smoothing the output power fluctuations, one-day practical site wind velocity and irradiation data are considered. The dynamic modeling and effectiveness of this control method are verified in the MATLAB/Simulink environment. The simulation results show that the output power variations of the hybrid wind/PV system can be significantly mitigated using the combination of battery and EDLC based storage systems. The power smoothing controller proposed for the hybrid storage devices is advantageous as compared to the control technique which uses either battery or ultracapacitor used for smoothing the fluctuating power. © 2020. The Author(s).