Novel AFD method with pulsation of chopping fraction for islanding prevention of grid-connected photovoltaic inverter

This paper proposes a novel active frequency drift (AFD) method for the islanding prevention of grid-connected photovoltaic inverter. To detect the islanding phenomenon of grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) inverters concerning about the safety hazards and the damage to other electric equipments, many...

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Main Authors: Jaeho Choi, Youngseok Jung, Gwongjong Yu
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Electrical safety
Frequency
Harmonic analysis
Hazards
Inverters
Photovoltaic
Photovoltaic systems
Power conditioning
Power Quality
Renewable energy systems
Safety
Safety devices
Solar power generation
Testing
Voltage
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Summary:This paper proposes a novel active frequency drift (AFD) method for the islanding prevention of grid-connected photovoltaic inverter. To detect the islanding phenomenon of grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) inverters concerning about the safety hazards and the damage to other electric equipments, many kinds of anti-islanding methods have been presented. Among them, AFD method using chopping fraction (cf) enables the islanding detection to drift up (or down) the frequency of the voltage during the islanding situation. However, the performance of the conventional AFD methods, which have a certain value of cf only, is inefficient and difficult to design the appropriate cf value analytically to meet the limit of harmonics. In this paper, the periodic chopping fraction based on an AFD method is proposed. This proposed method shows the analytical design value of cf to meet the test procedure of IEEE Std. 929-2000 with the power quality and islanding detection time. To verify the validation of the proposed method, the islanding test results are presented. It is confirmed that the proposed method has not only less harmonic distortion but also good performance of islanding detection compare with the conventional AFD method
DOI:10.1109/EPE.2005.219631