Adaptive Droop Control for Circulating Current Suppression in Microgrid Based on Fuzzy Logic

Abstract

Circulating currents in a microgrid increase the power loss of the microgrid, reduce the operational efficiency, as well as affect the power quality of the microgrid. The existing literature is seldom concerned with methods to suppress the loop currents using fuzzy logic control. In this paper, a method based on fuzzy control of droop coefficients is proposed to suppress the circulating currents inside the microgrid. The method combines fuzzy control with droop control and can achieve the effect of suppressing the circulating currents by adaptively adjusting the droop coefficients to make the power distribution between each subgrid more balanced. To verify the proposed method, simulation is carried out in Matlab/Simulink environment, and the simulation results show that the proposed method is significantly better than the traditional proportional-integral control method. The circulating currents reduce from about 10 A to several nanoamperes, the bus voltage and frequency drops are significantly improved, and the total harmonic distortion rate of the output voltage reduces from 4.66% to 1.06%. In addition, the method used in this paper can be extended to be applied in multiple inverters connected in parallel, and the simulation results show that the method has a good effect on the suppression of circulating currents among multiple inverters.

Keywords

circulating current suppression / microgrid / fuzzy logic / droop control

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Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China(62303107)

Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China(2232022G-09)

Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China(2232021D-38)

Shanghai Sailing Program, China(21YF1400100)