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Fig. 13. The rate of change of frequency (ROCOF) during island conditions
of scenario 1 in different configuration of the connected feeder loads.
Fig. 14. The Frequency and its rate of change of frequency (ROCOF) during
island condition with default loads from Fig. 3.
Fig. 12. Frequency variations during island conditions of scenario 1 in Fig. 15. AI Relay status and trip time (ms) in case of local connected load
different configuration of the connected feeder loads. greater than local generation.
TABLE I
DETECTION TIME OF ANTI-ISLANDING METHODS
Detection Time (s) of Anti-Islanding Relays
Scenarios DC-Link
UF OF ROCOF
Voltage
Local load greater
0.0536 0.0149 0.0135
than local generation
Local load matches
0.0632 0.0280 0.0212
with local generation
Local load less than
0.0623 0.0276 0.0222
local generation
As can be noted from Table I, the AI technique using dc-
link voltage relay has the fastest detection time. During
islanding condition, the dc-link voltage decrease with the
increase of the connected load. A small variation of inductive
power does not influence much the detection time of the AI
Fig. 16. DC-Link Voltage during island conditions of scenario 2. relays.
The frequency relays have the limits of preset thresholds
imposed by grid codes, leading to late detection of island
conditions of PV systems. The detection times of islanding
conditions of Grid-Connected PV System for the ROCOF
relay presented in [10] are comparable with the detection
times of frequency relays. The ROCOF relay implemented
that in this paper has best detection times than when this AI
relay is realized as in [10].
Fig. 19 depicts graphically the simulation results of AI
methods discussed in this paper. It can be observed that the
dc-link voltage relay offers the best detection time in all
scenarios. It can also be seen that the dc-link voltage, the
ROCOF, and the frequency relays are triggered in the same
Fig. 17. DC-Link Voltage and frequency variation in case of resistive loads.
order in all scenarios.
C. Scenario 3: Local Load Less than Local Generation IV. CONCLUSIONS
The dc-link voltage variations in different cases of this This paper presents a novel islanding prevention technique
scenario are depicted in Fig. 18. Considering the network of Grid-Connected PV Systems based on monitoring the dc-
configuration and its connected load, the results of scenarios link voltage of PV inverter. The detection time of the
in which the connected feeder load is equal or less than PV islanding conditions for the frequency relays, the ROCOF
generation were very close (Fig. 16 and Fig. 18). relay, and respectively the proposed dc-link voltage relay are
The detection times of the AI methods analyzed in this compared. This study shows under which conditions our
paper for studied scenarios discussed above are given in proposed dc-link voltage AI method is the most efficient.
Table I. The performance of proposed dc-link voltage relay is
emphasized by comparing the detection time for all the
studied relays.
Citations:
I. V. Banu and M. Istrate, "Islanding prevention scheme for Grid-Connected Photovoltaic systems in Matlab/
Simulink," 2014 49th International Universities Power Engineering Conference (UPEC), Cluj-Napoca, 2014, pp. 1-6.
doi: 10.1109/UPEC.2014.6934698
URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6934698&isnumber=6934581