Design of dynamic voltage restorer to enhance power quality relying on renewable source

• Published in: Kufa journal of engineering Vol. 9; no. 2; pp. 74 - 90
• Main Author: Umran, Haydar M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Najaf, Iraq University of Kufa, Faculty of Engineering 01.05.2018; Faculty of Engineering, University of Kufa
• Subjects: Buck Converter; Distribution Grid; Dynamic Voltage Restorer (DVR); Power Quality; Renewable source
• ISSN: 2071-5528; 2523-0018
• DOI: 10.30572/2018/KJE/090206

Power quality improvement of low voltage grid is a great challenge that confronts the sophisticated power applications, because their performance is highly sensitive to the quality of power supply. Dynamic Voltage Restorer (DVR) used widely as an efficient and skillful device to adjust electrical disturbances of the distribution grids. This paper introduces an overview of the components of the 3-phase dynamic voltage restorer and design its own control circuit. The performance of DVR was developed on the basis of the appropriate selection of Photovoltaic (PV) module instead of the present conventional designs. Through this design, the need of series converter (DVR) for the current from an electrical grid will end and the problems of power losses will curb. The PV-module is selected to meet the requirements of the DVR during voltage sag/swell on voltage line. The proposed system is mimicked in MATLAB software/Simulink and the findings are presented to prove the success of the design in terms of full congruence of the load voltage waveform with source voltage waveform, attaining 0.77% of THD analysis for the load voltage and the waveforms of PV system.