Study of power conditioning system of superconducting magnetic energy storage system

Abstract

A Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage System (SMES) can be utilized for the compensation of nonlinear and pulsating loads. In this paper a power conditioning system (PCS) is designed to achieve SMES to work as a shunt active power filter and power conditioner at the same time. Two Hysteresis band controllers have been implemented to obtain (i) a sinusoidal input source current in phase with fundamental component of line to neutral source voltage irrespective of the load conditions (ii) Charging and discharging of SMES under constant voltage control mode. DC link voltage is kept constant by DC/DC Bidirectional Converter and source current is controlled by Voltage Source Converter (VSC). The magnitude of reference source current is obtained by controlling the energy of SMES by using Fuzzy Logic Controller (FLC). As it is a nonlinear controller it gives better performance than previously used PI controller in parameter variations and load disturbances. Analysis of the circuit operation under Fuzzy controller is presented in detail. Simulation has been done in MATLAB/Simulink and results are presented demonstrating the feasibility of the proposed power conditioning system.