Fundamental frequency sequence amplitude estimator for power and energy applications

PLoS One. 2022 Aug 1;17(8):e0270851. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0270851. eCollection 2022.

Abstract

A grid-synchronization-based fundamental frequency positive-sequence (FFPS) and negative-sequence (FFNS) amplitudes estimation technique is proposed for unbalanced and distorted grid. In this technique, the sequence amplitudes are extracted by extracting the phase-angle of the FFPS and FFNS components. The extracted phase-angles have DC and double frequency AC components. The AC component is filtered out by using a Moving Average Filter (MAF) of appropriate window length. From the extracted phase-angle, the unknown frequency can be estimated by using a suitable controller. A frequency-fixed equidistant samples-based pre-loop filter is also applied to eliminate the effect of measurement offset. The proposed technique has a very simple structure and is easy to tune. Small-signal modeling-based stability analysis and gain tuning procedure are also provided. The proposed technique strikes a good balance between fast convergence and disturbance rejection capability. Comparative numerical simulation and experimental results with similar other techniques demonstrate the suitability and performance enhancement by the proposed technique.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Computer Simulation*
  • Physical Phenomena

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the Welsh European Funding Office (WEFO) under the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) in the form of the Sêr Cymru II 80761-BU-103 project to HA. The work of ZT was supported in part by the Algerian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research and Directorate General for Scientific Research and Technological Development (DGRSDT) in the form of the Project R.F.U. [A01L07UN390120180001] and Project S.E.I [N° 01/univeloued/DGRSDT/2019].