Energies, Vol. 12, Pages 1842: The Voltage Control Strategy of a DC-Link Bus Integrated Photovoltaic Charging Module in a Unified Power Quality Conditioner (Energies)

In order to improve the functionality and efficiency of a unified power quality conditioner (UPQC), a DC-link bus integrated photovoltaic charging module is proposed in a UPQC. It can generate power for essential loads apart from providing energy to a DC-link bus. A conventional proportional integral (PI) controller fails to run smoothly in dynamic conditions of the micro-grid, since it has poor capabilities in determining suitable values of proportional gain and integral gain. So, the optimization algorithm for a PI controller based on chaos particle swarm optimization based on a multi-agent system (CPSO-MAS) algorithm was developed in this paper to overcome properties such as intermittent instability in the micro-grid. Through verification by simulation and experiment of UPQC harmonic compensation, it showed that the proposed DC link bus voltage control strategy can be effectively applied to UPQC towards various conditions related to voltage and current distortion. In addition, it proved that the proposed strategy has faster convergence than other algorithms, which enhances the stability of DC-link bus voltage. Hence, the contribution presented in this paper is to provide a novel approach for the power quality improvement of UPQC.