PEMFC Supported Dynamic Voltage Restorer for Power Quality

Enhancement
Department of Electrical Engineering , CGPIT, UTU

Objective PEMFC Supported DVR Simulation of PEMFC supported DVR with

Discrete PWM scheme using PI controller
The objective of this work is to compensate balance voltage Impedence Impedence Load 2

sag created by three phase fault using simple DVR PEMFC 115 / 11 kv
(Delta/Star)
11 kv / 440 V
(Star/Star)
(Star/Delta/Delta)
supported DVR for power quality enhancement and analyze
it’s performance. 11/ 115 /
115 kv
3- Phase Fault

Introduction AC Impedence

115 / 11 kv
Impedence

11 kv/ 440 V

Load 1
(Delta/Star) (Star/Star)

• Power quality issues : Voltage sag ,Voltage swell ,Harmonics Filter

,Voltage transient and Flickers

• A solution for power quality improvement is to use

PEMFC

VSC
custom power devices.
• Various custom power devices : DVR,DSTATCOM, UPQC Result
• Fuel cell Simulation of PEMFC supported DVR with
• Types of Fuel cell

Vsupply(volt)
Discrete PWM scheme using PI controller 500

• Proton exchange membranes fuel cell 0

• PEMFC fed DVR -500

0 0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2 0.25 0.3 0.35 0.4 0.45 0.5
Time(sec)

VDVR(volt)
100

DVR 0
figure 6.emf

-100

 A DVR (Dynamic Voltage Restorer) is a series compensation

0 0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2 0.25 0.3 0.35 0.4 0.45 0.5
Time(sec)

device, which protects sensitive electric load from power 500

Vload(volt)
quality problems such as voltage sags, swells, unbalance and 0

distortion through power electronic controllers that use -500

0 0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2 0.25 0.3 0.35 0.4 0.45 0.5

voltage source converters (VSC). Time(sec)

• Basic Configuration of DVR

 Injection Transformer Conclusions
 Voltage Source Inverter The simulation results show clearly PEMFC fed DVR using
 Filter Result Discrete PWM scheme using PI controller works efficient while
 Control Circuit compare with PEMFC fed DVR using Firing angle control
scheme. PEMFC fed DVR using Firing angle control scheme
Vsupply(volt)

500

0 compensated 85.71% of the voltage sag condition, While

-500
PEMFC fed DVR with Discrete PWM scheme using PI
0.4
0 0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2 0.25
Time(sec)
0.3 0.35 0.45 0.5
controller compensated about 89.79% of the voltage sag
VDVR(volt)

100
condition.
0

-100
Guided by
0 0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2 0.25 0.3 0.35 0.4 0.45 0.5
Time(sec)
500 Mr. Ankur V. Rana
Vload(volt)

-500
Prepared by
0 0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2 0.25 0.3 0.35 0.4 0.45 0.5
Time(sec) Abhi S. Patel (2016041002110003)