Islanding detection of solar power plants by considering the dynamics of PV and MPPT

Author

Moghaddam, Majid ; Moaiyeri, Mohammad Hossein ; Afjei, Seyed Ebrahim

Author_Institution

ECE Dept., Shahid Beheshti Univ., Tehran, Iran

fYear

2014

fDate

10-11 June 2014

Firstpage

127

Lastpage

131

Abstract

Islanding detection is a significant part of photovoltaic (PV) and distributed generation systems. In this paper a novel method for islanding detection of PV is proposed. The proposed passive method utilizes the negative sequence impedance and phase of inverter output current. PV array model and maximum power point tracking effect are considered. This method has a negligible non-detection zones and it is immune to the dynamics of power system like load and capacitor switching. 100kw Sunpower PV system, boost converter and inverter are modeled and simulated at MATLAB Simulink. The simulation results demonstrate the superiority of proposed method for robust islanding detection.

Keywords

distributed power generation; invertors; maximum power point trackers; negative impedance convertors; power distribution faults; power distribution reliability; solar cell arrays; solar power stations; MPPT dynamics; PV dynamics; Sun power PV system; boost converter; distributed generation system; inverter output current; maximum power point tracking; negative sequence impedance; negligible nondetection zone; photovoltaic array model; power 100 kW; power system dynamics; solar power plant islanding detection; Flowcharts; Frequency measurement; Phase frequency detector; Phase measurement; Reliability; Sun; Switches; Islanding detection; distributed generation (DG) and false tripping; photovoltaic (PV) systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Thermal Power Plants (CTPP), 2014 5th Conference on

Conference_Location

Tehran

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-5649-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CTPP.2014.7040707

Filename

7040707