Research Area:  Metaheuristic Computing

Abstract:

In this work, a photovoltaic (PV) integrated modular multilevel inverter (MMI) is connected to a three-phase system for power quality (PQ) improvement. The MMI has modular design and high-quality output waveform. Thus, it is widely used for medium and high-power applications. The Spotted Hyena Optimization (SHO) technique is proposed for generating the reference current and tuning the parameter of the PI controller in MMI. The proposed SHO technique is operated under different loading conditions and is compared with the conventional particle swarm optimization (PSO) and firefly optimization (FO) technique. The controlling part of MMI is designed to supply power produced from the PV system to the grid and controlling the harmonics and reactive power. This paper employs an incremental conductance (INC) based maximum power point tracking (MPPT) technique for drawing maximum power. The performance of the proposed technique is analysed using the MATLAB/Simulink tool.

Keywords:  
photovoltaic
multilevel inverter
Spotted Hyena Optimization
loading conditions
PV system
harmonics
reactive power.

Author(s) Name:  Soumya Ranjan Das, Arun Kumar Sahoo, Gaurav Dhiman, Krishna Kant Singh, Akansha Singh

Publisher name:  ELSEVIER

DOI:  10.1016/j.compeleceng.2021.107510

Volume Information:   Volume 96

Paper Link:   https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0045790621004572