Research on power load flow calculation for photovoltaic-ship power system based on PSAT

Solar ship, which integrates the solar photovoltaic (PV) system into its own ship power system, is becoming one kinds of most promising and fastest developing green ship. Since the electric energy transformed by PV system is provided to the power load through the ship's distribution system, the output power of synchronous generator will be reduced in proportion. Especially, if the matching relationship among solar PV system, energy storage system and the power load requirement is precisely analyzed and the operation characteristics and reliability of solar inverter have already meet the strict test standards for marine equipment, the design capacity of synchronous generators could also be reduced. The off-grid mode and grid mode are the main way of integrated application of solar power photovoltaic system of ship. And the solar PV system is a kind of inverter power supply, which is essentially based on the electronic inverted technology, so PV system can be regarded as a ‘fragile power source’ with ‘zero inertia’. Therefore, the influence of solar photovoltaic grid-connected system to the power flow and power quality of the ship power system cannot be ignored. And the effect of photovoltaic system on the power quality of transient and steady-state and flow calculation remains to be studied. This paper mainly research the changes of power load flow calculation(PLFC) on the system, using the toolbox PSAT of MATLAB Simulink. This paper research the PLFC on the system of different solar photovoltaic systems access points, and analysis the experimental results. The results show that, under the premise of the normal operation of the ship electric power system, the improvement of the capacity of solar photovoltaic system in ship , and different access modes of photovoltaic grid-connected system, have slight impact on the power flow of power system, indicating that the photovoltaic grid-connected system in ship is stable, an appropriate increase in the capacity of PV system is feasible. The results is of certain significance of secure application of grid connected photovoltaic system in this paper.