The multidimensional purposes of grid-tied hybrid renewable system such as tracking of maximum power, increasing the power conversion efficiency, reducing the harmonic distortions in the injected current and control over power injected into the grid are presented in this paper by developing a laboratory-scale setup. To ensure continuous current operation at the shoot through mode of grid connected inverter, a switched Z-source converter is utilized at the PV side. The PWM rectifier connected with the wind turbine transforms AC power into dc. Individual power converters with conventional PI controllers have been dedicated for each power source, and control strategy uses only one reference voltage so as to increase the maximum power tracking speed from both PV and wind sources. The battery energy management is performed by artificial neural network (ANN) to enhance the stable power flow and increase the lifespan of the storage system. Finally, the voltage at the point of common coupling is fed to ANN-based space vector-modulated three-phase inverter and the converted AC power is injected to the grid. The overall system performance is measured by estimating the quality of injected power. A stable operation of the proposed microgrid system is verified by varying input and load at the grid. A continuous-time simulation model is realized in MATLAB and is validated using experimental prototype. This benchmark system provides various research scopes for the future smart grids.
Keywords: DC link voltage; Energy management; PI–fuzzy–ANN controllers; PV–wind–battery system; Switched Z-source converter.
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