Contribuições à modelagem, controle e integração de dispositivos fotovoltaicos a sistemas elétricos de potência

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2023-11-03

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Universidade Federal de Goiás

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The prominence attained by photovoltaic (PV) power generation among the various available renewable energy resources has led to the need of analyzing and engineering such technology at a wide range of implementation scales, beginning from the electrical characteristics of PV cells, passing through the local control of PV generation systems, up to the massive integration of PV resources to wider electrical power systems, such as the distribution grid. This thesis is divided into three parts, each of which presents novel contributions to the study of PV systems in the three aforementioned scales of analysis. In the first part, analytical modeling of PV cell current-voltage (I-V) characteristics by means of explicit closed-form equations is addressed. A new piecewise quadratic model is proposed, which is shown to perform either better or comparably, for different solar cells, to state-of-the-art models in terms of accuracy. Two methods are established for computing the model parameters: the first one is analytical and only requires datasheet information, whereas the second one uses linear-complexity optimization with respect to I-V samples in order to further improve accuracy. In the second part, the problem of maximum power point tracking (MPPT) in two-stage PV systems is considered. First, a new hybrid MPPT method which uses direct duty cycle control for enhanced tracking efficiency is developed for grid-tied systems. Then, an analytical MPPT approach for single-phase off-grid variable-voltage systems is presented and subsequently generalized to consider current harmonics and three-phase loads. Both proposed MPPT methods are shown, by means of simulation, to perform better than existing methods with similar implementation complexities. In the third part, voltage control of distribution systems with photovoltaic penetration by means of PV inverter reactive power support is studied. Three novel decentralized methods for controlling the inverter reactive power setpoints are proposed. The first method considers voltage measurements are available at each PV inverter and consists in the heuristic specification of a cooperative decentralized Markov decision process (MDP), whose offline solution yields voltage control policies to be carried out by the grid zone controllers. On the other hand, the second method assumes voltage measurement and computational resources are scarce and establishes a decentralized strategy which only uses two voltage measurements per control zone and is directly compatible with droop-type controls usually found in PV inverters. At last, a third method is presented which combines cooperative MDP, droop control and a switching mechanism for achieving a compromise between voltage regulation and reduction of active power losses. All methods are compared to similar existing approaches, via simulations with real irradiance profiles in a large distribution grid, yielding favorable performances.

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CORRÊA, H. P. Contribuições à modelagem, controle e integração de dispositivos fotovoltaicos a sistemas elétricos de potência. 2023. 239 f. Tese (Doutorado em Engenharia Elétrica e da Computação) - Escola de Engenharia Elétrica, Mecânica e de Computação, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2023.