Abstract
This article presents a novel Second Order Cone Programming (SOCP) based optimal power flow (OPF) model for AC-DC hybrid power distribution networks. The proposed OPF model relaxes the angle of the voltage and current and considers the network's converters (i.e., AC-DC rectifiers, DC-AC inverters) along with the power flow relations within a conic solution space. The OPF model provides optimal operational points and recovers the optimal modulation index for the reference settings of the converters. Being convex, the proposed model produces a globally optimal solution and is tight for convex objective function (i.e., minimum network loss, minimum generation cost of DERs) for radial distribution networks. The proposed SOCP-OPF model is simulated and analyzed on different test cases considering the high penetration of distributed energy resources (DERs). Based on the simulation results, it is observed that the proposed model is computationally efficient and scalable to large networks for globally optimal and exact solutions for AC-DC hybrid power distribution networks with high DER penetration.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | 2023 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Smart Grid, and Renewable Energy |
| Subtitle of host publication | Power Electronics, Smart Grid, and Renewable Energy for Sustainable Development, PESGRE 2023 |
| Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9798350310573 |
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| State | Published - 2023 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 2023 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Smart Grid, and Renewable Energy, PESGRE 2023 - Trivandrum, India Duration: Dec 17 2023 → Dec 20 2023 |
Publication series
| Name | 2023 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Smart Grid, and Renewable Energy: Power Electronics, Smart Grid, and Renewable Energy for Sustainable Development, PESGRE 2023 |
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Conference
| Conference | 2023 IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics, Smart Grid, and Renewable Energy, PESGRE 2023 |
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| Country/Territory | India |
| City | Trivandrum |
| Period | 12/17/23 → 12/20/23 |
Funding
This article is based on the research work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Solar Energy Technology Office Award Number DE-EE-0008774. (Corresponding author: Sukumar Kamalasadan.) Md Mahmud-Ul-Tarik Chowdhury, Md Shamim Hasan, and Sukumar Kamalasadan are with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC 28223, United States (e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]).
Keywords
- AC-DC distribution network
- OPF analysis
- SOCP
- convex relaxation
- distributed resources (DERs)