APPLICATIONS OF MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL (MPC) IN ENERGY CONVERSION SYSTEMS

Abstract

The present thesis investigates the model predictive control as a power system stabilizer to damp the frequency oscillations. It discusses the different types of MPC which consider constraints or not. It also discusses some other controllers like Linear Quadratic Regulator and Pole Placement. The controllers are designed in detail and applied to three different power system models; a single machine connected to an infinite bus, a multi-machine power system model, and a multi-machine power system model with a wind power plant. Then, some disturbances are made to test the controllers including a three-phase fault, transmission line outage, and machine’s voltage reference sudden change. The design and simulation are done by MATLAB/SIMULINK