ABSTRACT
Name of student: Anoop Ingle
Roll no: 15104006
Degree for which submitted: Masters of Technology Degree
Department DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
‘Thesis tite: (Quality Index Based Controller and Transient Analysis
for DC Microgrid
Name of Thesis Supervisors: Soumya Ranjan Sahoo
Sandeep Anand
Month and year of Thesis
submission: June, 2017
Microgrids ate the most effective way of integrating renewable energy sources, Also, most of
the power electronic loads like household appliances, computers are de in nature and de systems
have no issue of frequency. For similar voltage levels, the effeciency of an DC grid is more than
an AC grid, Hence, research in DC microgrids is gaining popularity.
Sources in a de microgrid ae required to have proportional current sharing and low voltage
regulation, Distributed secondary controllers are the most effective way to address this problem.
“They can be clasifed as methods using ither fall communication or reduced communication.
Faull communication network requires the power eleettonis converters to share the measurement
data over a common communication bus. This data will be available o all other converters in the
microgrid. The central communication bus becomes a single point of failure, and hence, reliability
of such a scheme is low, Reduced communication in tum depends on sparse communication
network with exchange of data done between a few selected converters. Thus, in case of single link
failure, the stability of the microgrid can be maintained. Additionally, the sparse communication
network allows to scale the system with ease. This thesis compares both these methods for a
particular secondary distributed scheme. The settling times for both the cases are compared by
finding out the dominant poles. Computer simulations are done to illustrate the findings.The subsequent part of the thesis is based on the design of a secondary controller based on
quality index. In literature, secondary controllers are discussed to improve either the voltage reg
ulation of one bus or, the average voltage regulation of the entire system. Also most of these
techniques rely on the communicated values of both terminal voltage and output current of in-