Computers, Materials & Continua Tech Science Press
DOI: 10.32604/cmc.2023.033405
Article
Control of Distributed Generation Using Non-Sinusoidal Pulse Width
Modulation
Mehrdad Ahmadi Kamarposhti1, *, Phatiphat Thounthong2 , Ilhami Colak3 and Kei Eguchi4
1
Department of Electrical Engineering, Jouybar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Jouybar, 4776186131, Iran
2
Renewable Energy Research Centre (RERC), Department of Teacher Training in Electrical Engineering, Faculty of
Technical Education, King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok, 1518, Pracharat 1 Road, Bangsue,
Bangkok, 10800, Thailand
3
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Architectures, Nisantasi University,
Istanbul, 34398, Turkey
4
Department of Information Electronics, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, 811-0295, Japan
*Corresponding Author: Mehrdad Ahmadi Kamarposhti. Email: mehrdad.ahmadi.k@gmail.com
Received: 15 June 2022; Accepted: 02 September 2022
Abstract: The islanded mode is one of the connection modes of the grid dis-
tributed generation resources. In this study, a distributed generation resource
is connected to linear and nonlinear loads via a three-phase inverter where
a control method needing no current sensors or compensator elements is
applied to the distribute generation system in the islanded mode. This con-
trol method has two main loops in each phase. The first loop controls the
voltage control loops that adjust the three-phase point of common coupling,
the amplitude of the non-sinusoidal reference waveform and the near-state
pulse width modulation (NSPWM) method. The next loop compensates
the harmonic compensator loop that calculates the voltage harmonics of the
point of common coupling in each phase, and injects them to compensate the
non-sinusoidal reference waveforms of each phase. The simulation results in
MATLAB/SIMULINK show that this method can generate balanced three-
phase sinusoidal voltage with an acceptable total harmonic distortion (THD)
at the joint connection point.
Keywords: Islanded mode; distributed generation resource; the point of
common coupling voltage; total harmonic distortion
1 Introduction
The order of a power system (generation, transmission, sub-transmission, and distribution) shows
that power is unidirectional transmitted from the generation points to the distribution stations and
ends at the consumers. Some consumers generate electricity using personal resources aiming to:
• Supply their consumption loads
• Support supplying critical loads in emergency conditions or on device interruption
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These personal resources are called distributed generation (DG) resources. Therefore, DG gener-
ates electricity where the consumers require the whole or a part of the power. The power generated by
the DG ranges from 1 kW to hundreds of kW. The DG resources include three main types based
on the primary resource, the fossil fuel energy, renewable energy, and heat loss. The use of DG
resources based on photovoltaic energy, wind, fuel cells, and micro-turbines are increasing due to
limited storage of fossil fuels. Usually, in DG systems, issues like power factor correction, active and
reactive power control, power quality improvement, controlling and reducing voltage harmonic at the
point of common coupling (PCC) are raised.
In this paper, the DG systems controls are investigated based on single-phase and three-phase
inverters. The DG systems are classified regarding their connection to the grid:
• Grid connected DGs: in this mode, the output of the DG resources is connected to the grid and
supplies the grid.
• Stand-alone DGs: in this mode, the output of the DG resources is directly connected to the load
and supplies a specific number of loads alone.
The joint connection point of the consumption loads or the output of the DG system inverters
is called PCC. The purpose of inverter-based DGs is to remove the harmonics and sinusoidal of the
PCC voltage as much as possible through proper control of the inverter. If the DG is in grid-connected
mode, the quality and amplitude of the PCC voltage are determined by the grid. The grid will impose
a steady sinusoidal voltage on the PCC, and regardless of the presence of non-linear loads, other linear
loads will draw sinusoidal current in the PCC. Therefore, as long as the DG is in grid-connected mode,
the nonlinear load does not affect the performance of linear loads at the PCC. However, if the DG
is in the stand-alone mode and supplies the loads alone, the presence of nonlinear loads affects all
loads connected to the PCC. The non-sinusoidal current drawn by the nonlinear loads generates a
non-sinusoidal voltage at the PCC.
Considering the generation costs of large power plants, power transmission, and losses caused
by long transmission lines, it is necessary to create local and distributed generation resources. A
proper control system with low complexity and cost is necessary in DGs connected to power inverters.
Many of the control methods used in DG inverters requires compensator transformers, passive
filters and current sensors for effective control that increase the cost of the DG system, significantly.
Therefore, the control methods that eliminate any of the mentioned elements or all of them are of great
significance.
In [1–5], capability of DG in controlling active and reactive power and compensating power factor
has been studied. In [6], the complete performance of a stand-along DG has been investigated. In [7],
an inductor, L, and a resistor, r, are inserted between the inverter and the DG, and the protection of
the DG system has been examined. In [8,9], the effect of non-sinusoidal voltage at the PCC on loads
like transformers and capacitive banks has been studied. In [10–13], removing harmonics at the PCC
using secondary winding of the transformer has been studied. In [14], a new method has been used
to correct the voltage harmonics and compensate the unbalanced voltage. In [15–17], the space vector
pulse width modulation (SVPWM) has been used to control the PCC of the DG system. In [18], a
DG has achieved a sinusoidal voltage at the PCC using a single-phase inverter and a novel switching
method.
In this paper, a stand-along DG is controlled by a three-phase inverter using the proposed
switching method, and three balanced sinusoidal voltages are generated at the PCC. This DG is
connected to various linear and nonlinear loads, and the nonlinear loads generate harmonics at
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the PCC. The proposed switching method is based on applying the nonlinear voltage generated
at the line impedance using pulse width modulation (PWM) as a result of removing this voltage
and achieving three-phase balanced sinusoidal voltages at the PCC. This method is simulated in
MATLAB/SIMULINK. Finally, the simulation results are compared with previous methods. This
method has the following properties:
• The proposed method requires no compensating element line compensating transformer or
passive filter.
• The proposed method removes the harmonics of the PCC without using any current sensor.
• In addition to reducing THD, the proposed method limits all harmonic components to an
acceptable level.
In the following, the proposed method is described in Section 2. Analysis of the results is reviewed
in Section 3. Finally, Section 4 is presented conclusions and results.
2 Description of the Proposed Method
2.1 Analysis and Applying the Proposed Method to the Stand-Alone Single-Phase DG System
To better understand the proposed method, it is first analyzed as a single-phase system. Consider
Fig. 1.
Figure 1: Connection of the DG resource and loads at the PCC
The voltage at PCC is:
VPCC = VS − I (r + jwl) (1)
The above relationship can be written as follows:
k k k
VS1 + VSn − I1 (r + jwl) − {In (r + jnwl)} = VPCC1 + VPCCn (2)
n=2 n=2 n=2
In which VS1 , VPCC1 , and I1 are the first harmonic of the inverter voltage, PCC voltage, and inverter
and load current. VSn , VPCCn , and In are the nth harmonic component of the inverter voltage, PCC
voltage, and load and inverter current. K is the maximum harmonic order that should be removed.
Eq. (2) can be written as follows:
k k k
{VS1 − I1 (r + jwl)} + VSn − {In (r + jnwl)} = VPCC1 + VPCCn (3)
n=2 n=2 n=2
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k k
{VS1 − I1 (r + jwl)} + {VSn − In (r + jnwl)} = VPCC = VPCC1 + VPCCn (4)
n=2 n=2
If the second term on the left side of Eq. (4) is set to zero, the PCC voltage becomes sinusoidal.
Therefore, Eq. (4) shows that the following condition should be met to achieve a sinusoidal voltage at
the PCC:
k k
Vn = VPCCn = 0 (5)
n=2 n=2
In which:
Vn = VSn − In (r + jnwl) (6)
To achieve a sinusoidal voltage at the PCC, the nth harmonic component at the PCC should be set
to zero. Therefore, by sampling the harmonic components at the PCC, and generating and injecting
similar components by the inverter, the harmonic components of the PCC might be reduced to zero.
According to Eqs. (4) and (5), we have:
Vn = 0 (7)
Eq. (7) shows that nonlinear voltage drop on the line impedance is compensated at the inverter side
by comparing each harmonic component, VPCCn , with its desired value, VPCCn . Therefore, the voltage
error of each harmonic component is defined as follows:
xn = |VPCCn+ | − |VPCCn | (8)
where xn is applied to a PI controller and the obtained value is multiplied by a sinusoidal function
with harmonic frequency and proper delay angle, θn . The result is the reference harmonic component,
VPCCn∗ , that can be used to form the reference waveform in the PWM switching method for removing
the nth order harmonics of the VPCC . Therefore, we have:
VPCCn = kp xn + ki xn dt × kn sin (nwt + θn )
+ (9)
In which Kp and Ki are the proportional and integral constants of the PI controller, and Kn is
the amplitude of the nth harmonic used in PWM method. The reference harmonic components in [9]
for formation of the reference waveform in the SPWM for injecting the nonlinear voltage, Vhn , in
series with the voltage, VS , or the output voltage of the inverter is shown in Fig. 2.
Figure 2: Series compensation for compensating the voltage drop on the line impedance
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Therefore, the undesired harmonic components, VPCC , can be removed using the reference
waveform generated by Eqs. (8) and (9) in the PWM switching method that generates the reference
harmonic components. These reference harmonic components modulate the sinusoidal reference
voltage, Vl∗ , such that specific harmonic components are generated to remove the similar value
generated by nonlinear loads. The obtained reference waveform is a non-sinusoidal waveform, Vref ∗ ,
which is used for comparison with the carrier wave, and it is called NSPWM. Therefore, we have:
k
VPef + = VPCCn+ + V1+ (10)
n=2
Fig. 3 shows an inverter in stand-alone mode that supplies the linear and nonlinear loads
connected to the PCC. Since the nonlinear loads generate the nonlinear current, INL , the PCC voltage
becomes non-sinusoidal. The PCC voltage is given as input to the NSPWM controller that generates
the non-sinusoidal reference waveform, Vref ∗ , for switching T1 to T4. The details of the proposed
controller are shown in Fig. 4.
Figure 3: The single-phase DG system in stand-alone mode using the NSPWM control method
This control system has two main loops: 1. Voltage control loop, 2. Harmonic compensation
loop. The voltage control loop adjusts the PCC voltage. The PI controller is used in this loop
that controls the reference sinusoidal waveform amplitude and the modulation index in the PWM
method. The sinusoidal reference waveform harmonic compensator with the available harmonic
frequencies modulates the load current to generate the non-sinusoidal reference, Vref ∗ . This non-
sinusoidal reference is compared with a high-frequency carrier wave to generate the signals of the
inverter switches. This control method requires information about the PCC voltage, θn , and VPCCn
amplitude of each PCC harmonic. In addition, 0.01 is the amplitude of each PCC harmonic that
should be tracked [19–37].
2.2 Applying the Proposed Method to Three-Phase DG System Based on Stand-Alone Inverter
Consider the DG system based on the inverter shown in Fig. 5. This system is in the stand-alone
mode and the three-phase inverter should supply the linear and nonlinear loads at the PCC along. The
purpose is to apply the control method presented in the previous section to the system shown in Fig. 2.
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Figure 4: The method proposed for voltage regulation and harmonic compensation in the single-phase
system
Figure 5: The three-phase DG system in stand-alone mode
The relationship among three voltages in a balanced three-phase system is as follows:
Va = Vm sin (wt)
2π
Vb = Vm sin wt − (11)
3
2π
Vc = Vm sin wt +
3
The PCC voltages shown in Fig. 5, Vpcca , Vpccb , and Vpccc are non-sinusoidal with harmonics due to
the presence of nonlinear loads and nonlinear currents passing each phase. The voltage of the main
component and the harmonics generated as voltage drop on the line impedance of each phase are
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considered as follows:
Vlinea = Va1 + Vahn
Vlineb = Vb1 + Vbhn (12)
Vlinec = Vc1 + Vchn
As mentioned in the previous section, if the harmonic generated on the impedance of each phase
is the result of nonlinear currents passing each phase, is generated by the inverter, three voltages of
the PCC would be completely sinusoidal. To this end, for switching each phase of the inverter, a
non-sinusoidal wave including harmonics associated to the connection point of the same phase are
generated. In the so-called three-phase NSPWM method, these sinusoidal waves are compared with a
high-frequency carrier wave that switches off/on the switches Sa1 , Sa1 , Sb1 , Sb1 , Sc1 , Sc1 to obtain three
balanced sinusoidal voltages at the PCC [38–47]. For this purpose, the voltages of the PCC should
be sampled according to Fig. 4. Considering Eq. (11) to obtain its different harmonic components.
Generating non-sinusoidal reference waveforms for each phase is shown in Figs. 6–8.
Figure 6: Obtaining the non-sinusoidal reference waveform of phase a
Figure 7: Obtaining the non-sinusoidal reference waveform of phase b
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Figure 8: Obtaining the non-sinusoidal reference waveform of phase c
As can be seen in Figs. 6–8, generating non-sinusoidal reference waveforms in each phase has two
main loops. The voltage control loop adjusts the PCC voltages, Vpcca , Vpccb , and Vpccc , and controls the
amplitude of the non-sinusoidal reference waveform amplitude and modulation index in the three-
phase NSPWM. The other loop is the harmonic compensator loop that calculates the PCC voltage
harmonics at each phase and injects them to the non-sinusoidal reference waveforms of each phase to
compensate them. Applying the proposed method is shown in Fig. 9.
Figure 9: Applying the proposed method to the three-phase DG system in stand-along mode
3 Simulation and Analysis
3.1 Stand-Alone DG System with Linear Loads
To better understand the proposed method, first, the nonlinear loads of Fig. 9 are considered.
This linear load includes a 0.5 μF capacitor in series with a 20 mH inductor that is in parallel with a
10 ohms resistor. The inductor and resistor of each phase of the inverter are 2.5 mH and 0.1 ohm. The
input dc voltage is 800 V. Fig. 10 shows the three-phase currents of the linear load. As can be seen in
this figure, the load is sinusoidal without any distortions. Fig. 11 shows the reference waveforms using
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in the NSPWM method obtained using the proposed control method. As can be seen, these waveforms
have no harmonic.
40
iloada, iloadb and iloadc(A)
20
-20
-40
0 0.05 0.1 0.15
Time(second)
Figure 10: Three-phase currents of the load
0.5
Vrefa
-0.5
0 0.05 0.1 0.15
Time(second)
(a)
0.5
Vrefb
-0.5
0 0.05 0.1 0.15
Time(second)
(b)
0.5
Vrefc
-0.5
0 0.05 0.1 0.15
Time(second)
(c)
Figure 11: The reference three-phase waveforms generated in the proposed control method
As expected, the voltages of the three-phase PCC are sinusoidal as shown in Fig. 12. The
important point is that the three PCC voltages are balanced and satisfy Eq. (11), indicating the correct
performance of the controllers shown in Figs. 6–8 that generate the reference voltages. The amplitude
of the three-phase voltages of the PCC is 220 V. Figs. 13 and 14 show the active and reactive power
consumption of the linear load. The active power consumption of the load is about 7000 W and the
average reactive power of the load is zero. All active power of the load is generated by the inverter, and
the currents and voltages of all phases are in-phase due to lack of reactive power.
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500
Vpca (volt)
0
-500
0 0.05 0.1 0.15
Time(second)
(a)
500
Vpcb (volt)
-500
0 0.05 0.1 0.15
Time(second)
(b)
500
Vpcc (volt)
-500
0 0.05 0.1 0.15
Time(second)
(c)
Figure 12: PCC voltages
15000
W load (watt)
10000
5000
0
0 0.05 0.1 0.15
Time(second)
Figure 13: Active power consumption of the load
200
Q load (Var)
100
-100
-200
0 0.05 0.1 0.15
Time(second)
Figure 14: Reactive power consumption of the load
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3.2 Stand-Alone DG with Linear and Nonlinear Loads
Now the nonlinear load shown in Fig. 9 is added to the system. This nonlinear load is a full-wave
diode rectifier with 20 ohms resistive load. In addition, the system includes a linear load, a 0.5 μF
capacitor in series with a 20 mH inductor in parallel with a 25 ohms resistor. The inductor and resistor
of each phase of the inverter are 2.5 mH and 0.1 ohms. The input dc voltage is 850 V. As can be seen
in Fig. 15, the three-phase load currents are due to existence of nonlinear load with high THD. This
current generates harmonic in the three-phase voltages of the PCC.
iloada, iloadb and iloadc (A)
50
-50
0 0.05 0.1 0.15
Time(second)
Figure 15: Three-phase currents of the load in the presence of nonlinear load
By calculating the harmonics generated at each phase according to Figs. 6–8, the non-sinusoidal
reference waveforms of the NSPWM method are obtained as shown in Fig. 16.
0.5
Vrefa
-0.5
0 0.05 0.1 0.15
Time(second)
(a)
0.5
Vrefb
-0.5
0 0.05 0.1 0.15
Time(second)
(b)
0.5
Vrefc
-0.5
0 0.05 0.1 0.15
Time(second)
(c)
Figure 16: The three-phase reference waveforms generated in the proposed control method in the
presence of nonlinear load
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As can be seen in Fig. 16, three phases of phases a, b, and c are non-sinusoidal that can generate
the harmonics generated at the output of the inverter compared to the high-frequency triangular wave,
making the three-phase voltages of the PCC sinusoidal as shown in Fig. 18.
As can be seen in Fig. 17, after a transient state, the voltages of the PCC become balances
three-phase sinusoidal with low THD, where the THD values of phases a, b, and c are 4.3, 4.4,
and 4.35 that are compatible with the IEEE standard. The purpose is to achieve a balanced PCC
voltage with acceptable THD without using compensating elements and sampling the current, which
is accomplished. Figs. 18 and 19 shows the active and reactive power consumption of the load.
500
Vpcca(volt)
-500
0 0.05 0.1 0.15
Time(second)
(a)
500
Vpccb(volt)
-500
0 0.05 0.1 0.15
Time(second)
(b)
500
Vpccc(volt)
-500
0 0.05 0.1 0.15
Time(second)
(c)
Figure 17: PCC voltages
4
x 10
6
Pload(watt)
0
0 0.05 0.1 0.15
Time(second)
Figure 18: Active power of the linear and nonlinear loads
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4
x 10
Qload(Kvar)
0
-2
0 0.05 0.1 0.15
Time(second)
Figure 19: Reactive power of the linear and nonlinear loads
4 Conclusion
In this paper, a control method is applied to the three-phase stand-alone DG system that does
no need any current sensor or compensating element. The control methods applied here including the
methods employing the inverter equation, or those taking feedback from the load and inverter currents
and using current sensor, increase the cost and complexity of the control method by using series
compensators like transformers, passive filters and active filters to improve the PCC voltage quality
and achieve an acceptable harmonic level. The results of applying the proposed control method in
MATLAB/SIMULINK show that this method can generate balanced three-phase sinusoidal voltage
with acceptable THD at the PCC. The THD of phases a, b, and c is 4.3, 4.4, and 4.35 that is
compatible with the IEEE standard. In addition, by accurate adjustment of the proportional and
integral coefficients of the PI controllers used in the proposed control system, more desired results
are obtained. Furthermore, acceptable values are obtained for the amplitude of various harmonic
components of the PCC voltage. For future work related to this study, multi-objective methods can
be used to solve the problem. This paper also introduced uncertainty issues, such as energy source
uncertainty, load uncertainty and measuring-instrument uncertainty into the objective function of the
problem.
Funding Statement: This work was supported in part by an International Research Partnership
“Electrical Engineering–Thai French Research Center (EE-TFRC)” under the project framework of
the Lorraine Université d’Excellence (LUE) in cooperation between Université de Lorraine and King
Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok and in part by the National Research Council
of Thailand (NRCT) under Senior Research Scholar Program under Grant No. N42A640328, and in
part by National Science, Research and Innovation Fund (NSRF) under King Mongkut’s University
of Technology North Bangkok under Grant No. KMUTNB-FF-65-20.
Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest to report regarding the
present study.
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