Desenvolvimento a eventos discretos de um controlador de balanceamento de fases para sistemas legados de baixa tensão e microgrids

Abstract

In the up-grading of the legacy low-voltage system as urban microgrids, phase - balance algorithm development becomes useful and important to ensures robust and reliable load balancing, establish an efficient automation workflow among consumers, the legacy lowvoltage grid and the supervision center of the distribution network of electrical power. It constituting an alternative. This may constitute an alternative phase-balancing control system based on consumer units dynamic switching rather than electrical current injection by microgrids. Formal automation design of these algorithms become an interesting milestone for performance evaluation and properties validation for their insertion in the new microgrid architecture. This may evaluate the system's reliable performance when verifying dynamic properties as well as, the univocal solutions that ensure load transfer and load stability robustness of low-voltage grid, without operation interruptions neither conflicting events. This work, proposes a new phase-load- balancing control system based on combined algorithms resulting from a Hierarchical Petri net system design. Through this model it was obtained an optimized and reliable automated workflow of load balance in the low-voltage grid phases, with an efficient choice of consumer units for the switching process, aiming to obtain a robust steady state of load against unbalances between phases, and neutral current minimized. From the model obtained called “Transformer- Phase Balancing Controller” (T-PBC) were developed four integrated algorithms: the Load Transfer Algorithm, that calculates the load imbalance level and power to be transferred in the transformer phases; the Consumption Diagnose Algorithm, that identifies the load levels margins in each consumer unit; the Consumption Forecast Algorithm, that forecast the monthly energy future states in consumers; and the Switch Selection Algorithm, that selects the consumers units to switch based on the future state of energy consumption, the load level margins and the average of the energy future states. Based on the performance results, it was obtained, the efficient reduction of the neutral current and the load average unbalance in the low-voltage grid phases, with load stability robustness about three months, making it an efficient alternative system against load unbalances in the legacy low-voltage grid and the microgrids.