Renewable technologies are matured; hybrid renewable energy system is promising to replace conventional fossil fuel distributed power generation. Renewable energy sources are inexhaustible and are renewed by nature itself. Due to ever increasing energy consumption, rising public awareness of environmental protection, and steady progress in power deregulation, alternative (i.e., renewable and fuel cell based) distributed generation (DG) systems have attracted increased interest. Wind and photovoltaic (PV) power generation are two of the most promising renewable energy technologies. Renewable energy sources are inexhaustible and are renewed by nature itself. This paper focuses on a photovoltaic/wind based hybrid power system. This system has three different sources namely solar, wind, and battery power to produce a continuous power supply. The available solar and wind output is boosted to the required level and connected to a common DC bus. The battery for this system is Vanadium Redox flow Battery (VRB). The performance of the energy storage system can be improved by VRB. This paper proposed the hybrid renewable energy system with VRB and the simulation results of VRB. The MPPT is implemented using Perturb and Observe algorithm to obtain the maximum power point. This DC is suitably converted into an AC by a PWM inverter to supply an AC load. In the absence of both wind and the solar output the load is connected through a battery backup source to supply power to the load.
Keywords |
| Hybrid system, Distributed generation, Photovoltaic/Wind, Vanadium Redox flow Battery. |
INTRODUCTION |
| Energy is essential to everyone’s life no matter when and where they are. This is especially true in this new
century, where people keep pursuing higher quality of life. Among different types of energy, electric energy is one of
the most important that people need every day. Since natural energy sources are finite and produce pollution, the
applications of renewable energy sources in the form of clean technology could be the right solution to solve the energy
crisis in the recent century. In order to meet ever increasing demand for conventional energy sources, applications with
clean renewable energy technologies such as photovoltaic (PV) energy and wind energy have been vigorously
developed in recent years. Hybrid wind-PV system has higher availability to deliver continuous power than either
individual source. Distributed generation technologies can provide customers with the energy solutions that are more
cost effective, more environments friendly or provide higher power quality or reliability than conventional solutions
[1,2]. In our paper a double input and single output power converter is developed for combined Wind-PV power
generating systems. And also these circuits have a path for backup energy banks. |
| Distributed generation (DG) can be defined as a source of small electric power connected to a distribution
network or at a customer site, representing an innovative and efficient way to both generate and deliver electricity.
Technological developments now allow power generation systems to be built in smaller sizes with high efficiency, low
cost, and minimal environmental impact. Distributed generation can serve as a supplement to electricity generated by
huge power plants and delivered through the electric grid [10]. Due to natural intermittent properties of wind and solar irradiation, standalone wind/PV renewable energy systems normally require energy storage devices or some other
generation sources to form a hybrid system. Different renewable energy sources can complement each other, forms
hybrid alternative energy systems with proper control have great potential to provide higher quality and more reliable
power to customers than a system based on a single resource. There are many combinations of different alternative
energy sources and storage devices to build hybrid systems that have been reported in paper [12]. |
| For general purpose and to simplify the analysis, a stand-alone system, including some loads and one
renewable hybrid generation unit equipped with a battery bank is considered. For here the battery is used as the VRB.
Among rechargeable batteries, the redox flow battery (RFB) has advantageous characteristics in the flexibility of
designing ampere-hour capacity and the rapid response. It is appropriate for load levelling and uninterruptible power
supply. The RFB system has been widely used in distributed renewable power plants, for example, solar power plants
and wind power plants [13-15]. There are currently several types of RFB under development, each employing different
redox couples. One of the most popular types is the all-vanadium redox battery (VRB), which has been developed by
many institutes and companies [16,17]. |
| This paper is organized as follows: section II present the hybrid system configuration and modeling, it covers
all the system configurations and models. Section III presents the control strategy of the hybrid system. Section IV
covers the sub system controls. Section V presents the operation of the hybrid system. Section VI simulation results and
discussions. Conclusion of the paper is given in section VII. |
SYSTEM CONFIGURATION AND MODELING |
| The modelling of hybrid system and vanadium redox battery is given below, |
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| A. Solar System Modeling |
| Solar cell is modelled based on the fundamentalrelationship between the cell voltage and current output which
can be expressed by equation |
 (1) |
| Solar module is modelled by connecting the cells in parallelor series to meet real manufacturer specification,
which has rating of 300W under standard test condition. Maximumpower point tracker is used to extract maximum
power fromsolar array while maintain voltage output at 48V. |
| B. Wind System Modelling |
| Wind turbine is designed to have low cut in and cut outspeed (1.5 m/s – 2.8 m/s) to suit wind condition. The
power output equation of wind turbine can bedescribed in equation (2): |
 (2) |
| C. Battery System Modeling |
| The electrical equivalent circuit model of the VRB that has been used is shown in Fig. 2. This model
to simulate the effect of a VRB for wind/solar hybrid power smoothing application. The parameters of the model are
determined assuming that at the operation point where the stack current is maximum and the state-of-charge (SOC)
20% the power losses of the VRB are of 21%. Therefore, at this operation point the overall efficiency is supposed to be
79%[4]. |
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| The transient behaviour of the VRB is related to the electrode capacitance as well as to the VRB is related to
the electrode capacitance as well as to the concentration depletion close to the electrodes [5]. The proposed model has
the following characteristics: (i) the SOC is modelled as a dynamically updated variable;(ii) the stack voltage is
modelled as a controlled voltage source, and the power flowing through this source will impact the SOC;(iii) the
variable pump loss model, as a controlled current source, is controlled by the pump loss current Ipump that is related to
the SOC and the current Istackflowing through the battery stack [4,5]. VRB power loss includes two parts: (1) one is
from the equivalent internal resistances Rreactorand Rresistiveand (2) one is parasitic loss due to the parasitic resistance,Rfixed
and the pump loss. VRB equivalent circuit parameters are calculated on the basis of the estimated losses for the worst
case. When the SOC of 20% is assumed as the worst case, we estimate 15% internal loss and 6% parasitic loss, and
resultant total 21% loss[7,8]. |
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CONTROL STRATEGIES |
| The overall control scheme is based on the accessibility of renewable energy source. To ensure the load demand is
always met, single or up to two sources can be combined to form different modes of operation which can be
summarized in table 1. In this system, solar energy subsystem is given preference as main source ahead of wind energy
system to supply load. |
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SUBSYSTEM CONTROL |
| A. Maximum Power-Point Tracking (MPPT) |
| Maximum power point tracking is often called as MPPT. This is an electronic system which commands a solar
panel or a set of solar panels to generate the maximum amount of power. The MPPT is not a physical system strapped
with solar trackers that position the panels so that they remain under the sun at all times. This fully electronic system
varies the electrical operating point of the panels which enables them to deliver the maximum power. The Extra power
generated by the panels is made available to the modules in the form of increased battery charging current. MPPT is the
automatic adjustment of Electrical Load(s) in order to obtain the utmost power out of the connected solar panels. The
output from a solar panel varies every moment due to factors like weather conditions, cloud cover, cell temperature, air
mass, module characteristics etc. Solar Irradiance, temperature and total panel resistance have a complex relationship
between them. This relationship is expressed by a "curve" called as the I-V Curve. Shown in Fig. 4. |
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| Here "I" is Current and "V" is the Voltage. Any particular PV cell has a single point of operation where the
Maximum Power can be obtained but only when the Current (I) and Voltage (V) are the maximum. It can be said that
Maximum power is transferred when the connected Load resistance is equivalent to the Series resistance, in our case the resistance of the solar cell. You can calculate this using the Maximum Power Transfer Theorem. Now as the
Current and Voltage have an exponential relationship the Maximum Power Point (MPP) occurs on the knee of the I-V
Curve where |
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| dv/dt=0 |
| It can be said that the Characteristic Resistance of the solar cell is equal to the Load Resistance. |
| B. Modes of PV Subsystem Control |
| As aforementioned, the battery-bank voltage must be taken in account to protect the battery bank against
overcharging. According to the battery-bank voltage (udc), we have two modes of operation. Mode 1 is when udc ≤
Umax , and Mode 2 is when udc>Umax, where Umax is the maximum voltage limit of the battery bank. Illustrates
these operating modes. When the voltage udc is increased beyond Umax , the relationship (udc = Umax) is maintained
by decreasing the captured power. The captured power is decreased according to the values of ΔPg and ΔD, to move
the operating point away from the maximum power point. |
OPERATION OF THE HYBRID SYSTEM |
| This section is devoted to examine the behaviour of the hybrid system. Each of the two subsystems; namely PV
subsystem and wind subsystem is controlled by its own controller. In Mode 1, each controller will guide its own system
to track the maximum power. In Mode 2, the two controllersare coordinated to follow the maximum voltage constraint.
To study Mode 1 of PV subsystem and wind subsystem, state of charge (SOC) of the battery bank is chosen of low
value to operate at udc<Umax. |
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SIMULATION RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS |
| The proposed strategy was implemented with the detailed model of the MATLAB Simulink simpower and also with
the highly accurate models of the system components. The simulation time step used was 5 micro-seconds to capture
the true behavior of the system components. The simulated performance analysis of voltage and current characteristics
of Vanadium redox battery is determined in Fig.6(a,b). The vanadium redox battery is charged at the rate of 50%.
When the phase angle of the Battery reduces, a part of wind/solar hybrid power is used for charging. When there is
reduction in wind power the stored energy from battery is discharged to the load which is controlled by algorithm. The
simulated result shows the state of charging and discharging of current and the voltage in p.u. The real power and the
reactive power are inferred from the battery, solar, wind turbine and the loads. |
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CONCLUSION |
| This paper is focused on hybrid power generation and the energy storage system (VRB). The input is from
three different sources namely solar power from photo voltaic cell, wind power from wind generator and a battery
source (VRB). Battery source acts as effective backup storage. VRB presents many advantages in applications to large
scale power energy storage. Its terminal voltage remains stable when the SOC is within 20-80%, to employ only a
single stage AC/DC converter in the VRB based Energy storage system to achieve charging and discharging controls,
as a result of the simple system structure with high efficiency. A boost converter is used to boost up the input voltage to
satisfy the load. This system provides continuous power supply. A common dc bus is responsible for the dc outputs
from the sources and act as a single input to the inverter. Further this inverter converts it into ac and given to the
respective loads. The performance of the boost converter, inverter has been analyzed and compared with the result
obtained from theory and simulation. Many hybrid systems of different topologies are proposed and analyzed in recent
years. This project proposes a simple system for continuous power supply with the effective utilization of renewable
energy sources. This system can be made as a closed loop for further developments. |
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