A Two-Grid Interline Dynamic Voltage Restorer Based on Two Three-Phase Input Matrix Converters

Abstract

Energy quality problems can cause diverse failures of sensitive equipment. Dynamic voltage restorers (DVRs) are devices that have been proposed to protect sensitive loads from voltage sag effects. However, the compensation capacity of DVRs is limited by the amount of energy stored in the restorer. One way to overcome this limitation is to use the interline DVR (IDVR) structure in which two or more DVRs connected to different feeders share a common DC-link. This paper proposes a new IDVR topology based on two three-phase input matrix converters (TTI-MC) without a capacitor in the dc-link. The TTI-MC integrates the power from two feeders and synthesizes the dc-link voltage. The inverters take the dc-link voltage and generate the appropriate compensation voltages to keep the load voltages stable. Each one of the inverters has its own modulation algorithm which are synchronized with the TTI-MC control. Inverter control is carried out in the reference frame dq and a modified space vector pulse width modulation (MSV-PWM) technique is used. TTI-MC control is performed in the dq reference frame with proportional-integral controllers and the modulation is based on the carrier-based pulse width modulation (MCB-PWM) technique. The proposed Two Input Interline DVR (TI-IDVR) extends its compensation range and has multifunctional capabilities. The efficiency of the proposed TI-IDVR is corroborated by simulations on MATLAB/Simulink.