Power Quality Improvement in a Fuel-Cell Based Micro-Grid with Shunt Active Power Filter

Devi Prasad Acharya, Niranjan Nayak, Subhashree Choudhury, Rohan Padhy

Abstract


The rapid industrial growth and population increase is the cause of production of abundant power, which is necessary in modern scenario. The factors like reliability of power, maintenance of power quality, increased efficiency of power sources are the new challenges in front of power Engineers. The tremendous scarcity of conventional power the alternate energy sources come to action. The most suitable alternate source of energy is solar power which has fewer drawbacks. The alternate energy plays key role due to its green and clean nature of production, easy availability and free from air pollution. Exploration of alternative fuel type leads to the efficient use of renewable energy sources with more distributed generation. For this purpose micro grid with distributed generation takes part a pivotal part in fulfilling the desired objectives during dispersal of energy.  This paper provides the efficient operation of a fuel cell stack supplying a nonlinear load connected to grid. The operation is optimized by the employment of a Active power filter connected parallel (SAPF) at the Point of Common Coupling (PCC).The power quality is maintained by optimizing the parameters of SAPF by Improved Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) as well as Gravitational Search Algorithm (GSA).The results obtained are compared for conventional PI controller, PSO And GSA and the results suggest the better performance of proposed work with GSA based SAPF.


Keywords


Fuel Cell, Shunt Active Power Filter (SAPF), PSO, GSA. Power quality

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