This paper proposes a robust dichotomy-based model predictive control(DS-MPC)with a fixed switching frequency for the grid-connected inverter(GCI).The proposed fast dichotomy algorithm can select and deduce the optima...This paper proposes a robust dichotomy-based model predictive control(DS-MPC)with a fixed switching frequency for the grid-connected inverter(GCI).The proposed fast dichotomy algorithm can select and deduce the optimal voltage vector dynamically through the space vector plane.Therefore,the proposed DS-MPC strategy could ensure dynamic performance and steady-state performance as well.Also,the current control robustness can be improved through DS-MPC with disturbance observer(DO)based on the extended Kalman filter(EKF).The novelty of this control is that the current control with fast dynamic response can be realized in the weak grid,even if the grid voltages are greatly distorted.Simulation and hardware experiments on the weak grid validate the effectiveness of the proposed DS-MPC with the EKF observer approach.展开更多
In the process of grid-connected photovoltaic power generation,there are high requirements for the quality of the power that the inverter breaks into the grid.In this work,to improve the power quality of the grid-conn...In the process of grid-connected photovoltaic power generation,there are high requirements for the quality of the power that the inverter breaks into the grid.In this work,to improve the power quality of the grid-connected inverter into the grid,and the output of the system can meet the grid-connected requirements more quickly and accurately,we exhibit an approach toward establishing a mixed logical dynamical(MLD)model where logic variables were introduced to switch dynamics of the single-phase photovoltaic inverters.Besides,based on the model,our recent efforts in studying the finite control set model predictive control(FCS-MPC)and devising the output current full state observer are exciting for several advantages,including effectively avoiding the problem of the mixed-integer quadratic programming(MIQP),lowering the THD value of the output current of the inverter circuit,improving the quality of the power that the inverter breaks into the grid,and realizing the current output and the grid voltage same frequency and phase to meet grid connection requirements.Finally,the effectiveness of the mentioned methods is verified by MATLAB/Simulink simulation.展开更多
Active damped LCL-filter-based inverters have been widely used for grid-connected distributed generation(DG) systems. In weak grids, however, the phase-locked loop(PLL) dynamics may detrimentally affect the stability ...Active damped LCL-filter-based inverters have been widely used for grid-connected distributed generation(DG) systems. In weak grids, however, the phase-locked loop(PLL) dynamics may detrimentally affect the stability of grid-connected inverters due to interaction between the PLL and the controller. In order to solve the problem, the impact of PLL dynamics on small-signal stability is investigated for the active damped LCL-filtered grid-connected inverters with capacitor voltage feedback. The system closed-loop transfer function is established based on the Norton equivalent model by taking the PLL dynamics into account. Using an established model, the system stability boundary is identified from the viewpoint of PLL bandwidth and current regulator gain. The accuracy of the ranges of stability for the PLL bandwidth and current regulator gain is verified by both simulation and experimental results.展开更多
This paper investigates the stability of LCL-filtered grid-connected inverters with capacitor current feedback(CCF) active damping. The impact of time delays in the digital controller on active damping and its equival...This paper investigates the stability of LCL-filtered grid-connected inverters with capacitor current feedback(CCF) active damping. The impact of time delays in the digital controller on active damping and its equivalent virtual impedance is analyzed. The inherent relationship between these time delays and stability is illustrated.Specially, a critical value of the CCF active damping coefficient kdamp_cis proposed to define three distinct regions of stability evaluation. If kdamp_c[ 0, a sufficient but smaller damping coefficient(kdamp\ kdamp_c) is recommended as optimum damping solution;if kdamp_c= 0,system will be unstable irrespective of active damping;and if kdamp_c\ 0, active damping is not necessary to design a stable system. Necessary conditions to ensure stability are identified;guidelines for controller design are then presented to optimize the performance of active damping and dynamic response. Simulation and experimental results confirm the presented analysis.展开更多
It is a well known fact that pulse width modulation(PWM)produces sideband effects.Taking this point into account,the accuracy of the grid-connected inverter model can be improved.In this paper,considering the aliasing...It is a well known fact that pulse width modulation(PWM)produces sideband effects.Taking this point into account,the accuracy of the grid-connected inverter model can be improved.In this paper,considering the aliasing effect of the PWM sideband components on the closed-loop control,a complete representation for the transfer function of the PWM is obtained.Furthermore,a multi-frequency model of grid-connected inverter system is derived.It is convenient for obtaining a PWM gain for grid-connected inverter system,which is PWM-controlled.In order to have an easy physical expression of the effects caused by the sideband components,an approximation is applied to simplify the PWM gain.The stability analysis is used to prove that PWM gain considering PWM effect is more precise than the conventional one.Experimental results verify the effectiveness of our proposal.展开更多
Proportion resonant(PR)controllers are able to achieve zero steady-state error for AC input signals and are widely used for simplifying control systems in the stationary reference frame.However,power decoupling in the...Proportion resonant(PR)controllers are able to achieve zero steady-state error for AC input signals and are widely used for simplifying control systems in the stationary reference frame.However,power decoupling in the stationary reference frame with a PR controller has not been investigated thoroughly.Based on the complex vector model of a grid-connected inverter(GCI),this paper deduces theoretically the power coupling relationship of GCI with the traditional PR current controller.A modified PR controller is provided for achieving the power decoupling,and the design method of the controller is presented.Simulation and experimental results verify that there is coupling between active and reactive power using the traditional PR controller and the proposed method can realize the power decoupling.展开更多
This paper primarily discusses the main circuit of single-phase inverter circuits.It begins by introducing the research context and the significance of the subject,then discusses the topology of grid-connected single-...This paper primarily discusses the main circuit of single-phase inverter circuits.It begins by introducing the research context and the significance of the subject,then discusses the topology of grid-connected single-phase inverter circuits,continues by discussing the control strategy for grid-connected single-phase inverter circuits,realizes a sinusoidal pulse width modulation(SPWM)signal generation circuit and an inverse control algorithm program,and finally ensures good output waveform and fast dynamic response.In view of the hysteresis feature of the grid voltage’s synchronous signal sampling circuit,the acquisition function in digital signal processing(DSP)control chips is applied,and the reasons for the hysteresis phenomenon are thoroughly investigated.The reliability of the SPWM control algorithm is revealed through the results.展开更多
Impedance analysis is an effective method to analyze the oscillation issue associated with grid-connected photovoltaic systems.However,the existing impedance modeling of a gridconnected photovoltaic inverter usually o...Impedance analysis is an effective method to analyze the oscillation issue associated with grid-connected photovoltaic systems.However,the existing impedance modeling of a gridconnected photovoltaic inverter usually only considers the effect of a single perturbation frequency,ignoring the coupling frequency response between the internal control loops of a grid-connected inverter,which severely affects the accuracy of the stability analysis.Hence,a method of impedance modeling and stability analysis for grid-connected photovoltaic inverters considering cross-coupling frequency is proposed in this paper.First,the generation mechanism of frequency coupling in gridconnected photovoltaic inverters,and the relationship between the coupling frequency and perturbation frequency are analyzed.Secondly,a sequence impedance model of grid-connected photovoltaic systems considering the coupling frequency is established by using the harmonic linearization method.The impact of DC bus voltage control strategy on frequency coupling characteristics of a grid-connected photovoltaic system is evaluated,and the impact of a coupling frequency term on system stability is quantitatively analyzed.Finally,the advantages of the proposed method are verified by several simulations.The results show that the proposed impedance model can accurately predict the potential resonance points of the system,and the coupling frequency characteristics will become much stronger with smaller DC bus capacitance or larger bandwidth of the DC bus controller.展开更多
In order to solve the problem of weighting factors selection in the conventional finite-control-set model predictive control for a grid-connected three-level inverter,an improved multi-objective model predictive contr...In order to solve the problem of weighting factors selection in the conventional finite-control-set model predictive control for a grid-connected three-level inverter,an improved multi-objective model predictive control without weighting factors based on hierarchical optimization is proposed.Four control objectives are considered in this strategy.The grid current and neutral-point voltage of the DC-link are taken as the objectives in the first optimization hierarchy,and by using fuzzy satisfaction decision,several feasible candidates of voltage vectors are determined.Then,the average switching frequency and common-mode voltage are optimized in the second hierarchy.The average ranking criterion is introduced to sort the objective functions,and the best voltage vector is obtained to realize the coordinated control of multiple objectives.At last,the effectiveness of the proposed strategy is verified by simulation results.展开更多
Current quality is one of the most important issues for operating three-phase grid-connected inverter in distributed generation systems. In practice, the grid current quality is degraded in case of non-ideal utility v...Current quality is one of the most important issues for operating three-phase grid-connected inverter in distributed generation systems. In practice, the grid current quality is degraded in case of non-ideal utility voltage. A new control strategy is proposed for the three-phase gridconnected inverter. Different from the traditional method,our proposal utilizes the unique abc-frame complex-coefficient filter and controller to achieve the balanced, sinusoidal grid current. The main feature of the proposed method is simple and easy to implement without any frame transformation. The theoretical analysis and experimental test are presented. The experimental results verify the effectiveness of the proposed control strategy.展开更多
An interesting inverter topology is proposed in this paper.It is similar to the typical three-phase full bridge inverter from the topology point of view,but smartly designed for the ground current reduction in single-...An interesting inverter topology is proposed in this paper.It is similar to the typical three-phase full bridge inverter from the topology point of view,but smartly designed for the ground current reduction in single-phase photovoltaic(PV)inverter applications.Theoretical analysis is conducted to clarify the operation mechanism of the proposed topology.Performance evaluation is carried out to verify the effectiveness of the proposed topology for the ground current suppression.展开更多
The interaction between grid-connected inverters and the grid may cause stability issues,and compromise the reliable operation of the inverters.This study investigates the stability of a three-level neutral point clam...The interaction between grid-connected inverters and the grid may cause stability issues,and compromise the reliable operation of the inverters.This study investigates the stability of a three-level neutral point clamped(NPC)inverter connected to the grid using impedance-based methods.Because the impedance model of a three-phase three-level NPC inverter has not yet been reported,this study fills the literature gap by analyzing the influence of three-level DC-side neutral point control on the impedance characteristics.By fully considering the DC bus dynamics and DC voltage control loop,and the current loop and phase-locked loop(PLL),the admittance model of a three-phase three-level NPC inverter is established and verified by simulation.Additionally,in the stability analysis of a threelevel NPC inverter grid-connected system,the frequency coupling introduced by the PLL and DC bus dynamics is included with the help of an established admittance model.The stability of the grid-connected system under different grid short circuit ratios(SCR)and operating power levels is analyzed according to the Nyquist stability criterion.The experimental results revealed that the established impedance model of the three-phase three-level NPC inverter can properly represent the stability of this system.展开更多
Finite control set-model predictive control (FCS-MPC) is employed in this paper to control the operation of a three-phase grid-connected string inverter based on a direct PQ control scheme. The main objective is to ac...Finite control set-model predictive control (FCS-MPC) is employed in this paper to control the operation of a three-phase grid-connected string inverter based on a direct PQ control scheme. The main objective is to achieve high-performance decoupled control of the active and reactive powers injected to the grid from distributed energy resources (DER).The FCS-MPC scheme instantaneously searches for and applies the optimum inverter switching state that can achieve certain goals, such as minimum deviation between reference and actual power;so that both power components (P and Q) are well controlled to their reference values.In addition, an effective method to attenuate undesired cross coupling between the P and Q control loops, which occurs only during transient operation, is investigated. The proposed method is based on the variation of the weight factors of the terms of the FCS-MPC cost function, so a higher weight factor is assigned to the cost function term that is exposed to greater disturbance. Empirical formulae of optimum weight factors as functions of the reference active and reactive power signals are proposed and mathematically derived. The investigated FCS-MPC control scheme is incorporated with the LVRT function to support the grid voltage in fulfilling and accomplishing the up-to-date grid codes. The LVRT algorithm is based on a modification of the references of active and reactive powers as functions of the instantaneous grid voltage such that suitable values of P and Q are injected to the grid during voltage sag.The performance of the elaborated FCS-MPC PQ scheme is studied under various operating scenarios, including steady-state and transient conditions. Results demonstrate the validity and effectiveness of the proposed scheme with regard to the achievement of high-performance operation and quick response of grid-tied inverters during normal and fault modes.展开更多
In this study, a novel approach for dynamic modeling and closed-loop control of hybrid grid-connected renewable energy system with multi-input multi-output(MIMO) controller is proposed. The studied converter includes ...In this study, a novel approach for dynamic modeling and closed-loop control of hybrid grid-connected renewable energy system with multi-input multi-output(MIMO) controller is proposed. The studied converter includes two parallel DC-DC boost converters, which are connected into the power grid through a single-phase H-bridge inverter. The proposed MIMO controller is developed for maximum power point tracking of photovoltaic(PV)/fuel-cell(FC) input power sources and output power control of the grid-connected DC-AC inverter. Considering circuit topology of the system, a unique MIMO model is proposed for the analysis of the entire system. A unique model of the system includes all of the circuit state variables in DCDC and DC-AC converters. In fact, from the viewpoint of closed-loop controller design, the hybrid grid-connected energy system is an MIMO system. The control inputs of the system are duty cycles of the DC-DC boost converters and the amplitude modulation index of DC-AC inverters. Furthermore, the control outputs are the output power of the PV/FC input power sources as well as AC power injected into the power grid. After the development of the unique model for the entire system, a decoupling network is introduced for system input-output linearization due to inherent connection of the control outputs with all of the system inputs. Considering the decoupled model and small signal linearization, the required linear controllers are designed to adjust the outputs. Finally, to evaluate the accuracy and effectiveness of the designed controllers, the PV/FC based grid-connected system is simulated using the MATLAB/Simulink toolbox.展开更多
A general growth is being seen in the use of renewable energy resources,and photovoltaic cells are becoming increasingly popular for converting green renewable solar energy into electricity.Since the voltage produced ...A general growth is being seen in the use of renewable energy resources,and photovoltaic cells are becoming increasingly popular for converting green renewable solar energy into electricity.Since the voltage produced by pho-tovoltaic cells is DC,an inverter is required to connect them to the grid with or without transformers.Transformerless inverters are often used for their low cost and low power loss,and light weight.However,these inverters suffer from leakage current in the system,a challenge that needs to be addressed.In this paper,a topology with two alternative connection models is presented to stabilize the common mode voltage and reduce the leakage current.The output voltage characteristic of the proposed inverter is five-level,which reduces the harmonic distortion in the output cur-rent compared to the two-and three-level inverters.The operation modes and output of the proposed topology are described and analyzed.The structures of the proposed inverter are simulated in MATLAB/Simulink and are compared with some well-known structures.Results show that the proposed structure with both connection models effectively reduces leakage current and improves grid current THD.展开更多
文摘This paper proposes a robust dichotomy-based model predictive control(DS-MPC)with a fixed switching frequency for the grid-connected inverter(GCI).The proposed fast dichotomy algorithm can select and deduce the optimal voltage vector dynamically through the space vector plane.Therefore,the proposed DS-MPC strategy could ensure dynamic performance and steady-state performance as well.Also,the current control robustness can be improved through DS-MPC with disturbance observer(DO)based on the extended Kalman filter(EKF).The novelty of this control is that the current control with fast dynamic response can be realized in the weak grid,even if the grid voltages are greatly distorted.Simulation and hardware experiments on the weak grid validate the effectiveness of the proposed DS-MPC with the EKF observer approach.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51667013)the Science and Technology Project of State Grid Corporation of China(Grant No.52272219000 V).
文摘In the process of grid-connected photovoltaic power generation,there are high requirements for the quality of the power that the inverter breaks into the grid.In this work,to improve the power quality of the grid-connected inverter into the grid,and the output of the system can meet the grid-connected requirements more quickly and accurately,we exhibit an approach toward establishing a mixed logical dynamical(MLD)model where logic variables were introduced to switch dynamics of the single-phase photovoltaic inverters.Besides,based on the model,our recent efforts in studying the finite control set model predictive control(FCS-MPC)and devising the output current full state observer are exciting for several advantages,including effectively avoiding the problem of the mixed-integer quadratic programming(MIQP),lowering the THD value of the output current of the inverter circuit,improving the quality of the power that the inverter breaks into the grid,and realizing the current output and the grid voltage same frequency and phase to meet grid connection requirements.Finally,the effectiveness of the mentioned methods is verified by MATLAB/Simulink simulation.
基金supported by Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars of Hebei Province(No.E2016203133)Hundred Excellent Innovation Talents Support Program of Hebei Province(No.SLRC2017059)
文摘Active damped LCL-filter-based inverters have been widely used for grid-connected distributed generation(DG) systems. In weak grids, however, the phase-locked loop(PLL) dynamics may detrimentally affect the stability of grid-connected inverters due to interaction between the PLL and the controller. In order to solve the problem, the impact of PLL dynamics on small-signal stability is investigated for the active damped LCL-filtered grid-connected inverters with capacitor voltage feedback. The system closed-loop transfer function is established based on the Norton equivalent model by taking the PLL dynamics into account. Using an established model, the system stability boundary is identified from the viewpoint of PLL bandwidth and current regulator gain. The accuracy of the ranges of stability for the PLL bandwidth and current regulator gain is verified by both simulation and experimental results.
基金supported by National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2016YFB0100700)
文摘This paper investigates the stability of LCL-filtered grid-connected inverters with capacitor current feedback(CCF) active damping. The impact of time delays in the digital controller on active damping and its equivalent virtual impedance is analyzed. The inherent relationship between these time delays and stability is illustrated.Specially, a critical value of the CCF active damping coefficient kdamp_cis proposed to define three distinct regions of stability evaluation. If kdamp_c[ 0, a sufficient but smaller damping coefficient(kdamp\ kdamp_c) is recommended as optimum damping solution;if kdamp_c= 0,system will be unstable irrespective of active damping;and if kdamp_c\ 0, active damping is not necessary to design a stable system. Necessary conditions to ensure stability are identified;guidelines for controller design are then presented to optimize the performance of active damping and dynamic response. Simulation and experimental results confirm the presented analysis.
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(51677161)Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province(E2019203563).
文摘It is a well known fact that pulse width modulation(PWM)produces sideband effects.Taking this point into account,the accuracy of the grid-connected inverter model can be improved.In this paper,considering the aliasing effect of the PWM sideband components on the closed-loop control,a complete representation for the transfer function of the PWM is obtained.Furthermore,a multi-frequency model of grid-connected inverter system is derived.It is convenient for obtaining a PWM gain for grid-connected inverter system,which is PWM-controlled.In order to have an easy physical expression of the effects caused by the sideband components,an approximation is applied to simplify the PWM gain.The stability analysis is used to prove that PWM gain considering PWM effect is more precise than the conventional one.Experimental results verify the effectiveness of our proposal.
文摘Proportion resonant(PR)controllers are able to achieve zero steady-state error for AC input signals and are widely used for simplifying control systems in the stationary reference frame.However,power decoupling in the stationary reference frame with a PR controller has not been investigated thoroughly.Based on the complex vector model of a grid-connected inverter(GCI),this paper deduces theoretically the power coupling relationship of GCI with the traditional PR current controller.A modified PR controller is provided for achieving the power decoupling,and the design method of the controller is presented.Simulation and experimental results verify that there is coupling between active and reactive power using the traditional PR controller and the proposed method can realize the power decoupling.
文摘This paper primarily discusses the main circuit of single-phase inverter circuits.It begins by introducing the research context and the significance of the subject,then discusses the topology of grid-connected single-phase inverter circuits,continues by discussing the control strategy for grid-connected single-phase inverter circuits,realizes a sinusoidal pulse width modulation(SPWM)signal generation circuit and an inverse control algorithm program,and finally ensures good output waveform and fast dynamic response.In view of the hysteresis feature of the grid voltage’s synchronous signal sampling circuit,the acquisition function in digital signal processing(DSP)control chips is applied,and the reasons for the hysteresis phenomenon are thoroughly investigated.The reliability of the SPWM control algorithm is revealed through the results.
文摘Impedance analysis is an effective method to analyze the oscillation issue associated with grid-connected photovoltaic systems.However,the existing impedance modeling of a gridconnected photovoltaic inverter usually only considers the effect of a single perturbation frequency,ignoring the coupling frequency response between the internal control loops of a grid-connected inverter,which severely affects the accuracy of the stability analysis.Hence,a method of impedance modeling and stability analysis for grid-connected photovoltaic inverters considering cross-coupling frequency is proposed in this paper.First,the generation mechanism of frequency coupling in gridconnected photovoltaic inverters,and the relationship between the coupling frequency and perturbation frequency are analyzed.Secondly,a sequence impedance model of grid-connected photovoltaic systems considering the coupling frequency is established by using the harmonic linearization method.The impact of DC bus voltage control strategy on frequency coupling characteristics of a grid-connected photovoltaic system is evaluated,and the impact of a coupling frequency term on system stability is quantitatively analyzed.Finally,the advantages of the proposed method are verified by several simulations.The results show that the proposed impedance model can accurately predict the potential resonance points of the system,and the coupling frequency characteristics will become much stronger with smaller DC bus capacitance or larger bandwidth of the DC bus controller.
基金Supported by the Key Research and Development Program of Hunan Province of China(2018GK2031)the Independent Research Project of State Key Laboratory of Advance Design and Manufacturing for Vehicle Body(71965005)+2 种基金the Innovative Construction Program of Hunan Province of China(2019RS1016)the 111 Project of China(B17016)the Excellent Innovation Youth Program of Changsha of China(KQ2009037).
文摘In order to solve the problem of weighting factors selection in the conventional finite-control-set model predictive control for a grid-connected three-level inverter,an improved multi-objective model predictive control without weighting factors based on hierarchical optimization is proposed.Four control objectives are considered in this strategy.The grid current and neutral-point voltage of the DC-link are taken as the objectives in the first optimization hierarchy,and by using fuzzy satisfaction decision,several feasible candidates of voltage vectors are determined.Then,the average switching frequency and common-mode voltage are optimized in the second hierarchy.The average ranking criterion is introduced to sort the objective functions,and the best voltage vector is obtained to realize the coordinated control of multiple objectives.At last,the effectiveness of the proposed strategy is verified by simulation results.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51307149)
文摘Current quality is one of the most important issues for operating three-phase grid-connected inverter in distributed generation systems. In practice, the grid current quality is degraded in case of non-ideal utility voltage. A new control strategy is proposed for the three-phase gridconnected inverter. Different from the traditional method,our proposal utilizes the unique abc-frame complex-coefficient filter and controller to achieve the balanced, sinusoidal grid current. The main feature of the proposed method is simple and easy to implement without any frame transformation. The theoretical analysis and experimental test are presented. The experimental results verify the effectiveness of the proposed control strategy.
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(51307149)China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2014M551050)Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education(20131333120016).
文摘An interesting inverter topology is proposed in this paper.It is similar to the typical three-phase full bridge inverter from the topology point of view,but smartly designed for the ground current reduction in single-phase photovoltaic(PV)inverter applications.Theoretical analysis is conducted to clarify the operation mechanism of the proposed topology.Performance evaluation is carried out to verify the effectiveness of the proposed topology for the ground current suppression.
基金This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Key Foundation of China under Grant 51937001the Natural Science Foundation Key Project of Chongqing Province under Grant cstc2019jcyj-zdxmX0005National Grid Project under Grant 5200-201958248A-0-0-00.
文摘The interaction between grid-connected inverters and the grid may cause stability issues,and compromise the reliable operation of the inverters.This study investigates the stability of a three-level neutral point clamped(NPC)inverter connected to the grid using impedance-based methods.Because the impedance model of a three-phase three-level NPC inverter has not yet been reported,this study fills the literature gap by analyzing the influence of three-level DC-side neutral point control on the impedance characteristics.By fully considering the DC bus dynamics and DC voltage control loop,and the current loop and phase-locked loop(PLL),the admittance model of a three-phase three-level NPC inverter is established and verified by simulation.Additionally,in the stability analysis of a threelevel NPC inverter grid-connected system,the frequency coupling introduced by the PLL and DC bus dynamics is included with the help of an established admittance model.The stability of the grid-connected system under different grid short circuit ratios(SCR)and operating power levels is analyzed according to the Nyquist stability criterion.The experimental results revealed that the established impedance model of the three-phase three-level NPC inverter can properly represent the stability of this system.
文摘Finite control set-model predictive control (FCS-MPC) is employed in this paper to control the operation of a three-phase grid-connected string inverter based on a direct PQ control scheme. The main objective is to achieve high-performance decoupled control of the active and reactive powers injected to the grid from distributed energy resources (DER).The FCS-MPC scheme instantaneously searches for and applies the optimum inverter switching state that can achieve certain goals, such as minimum deviation between reference and actual power;so that both power components (P and Q) are well controlled to their reference values.In addition, an effective method to attenuate undesired cross coupling between the P and Q control loops, which occurs only during transient operation, is investigated. The proposed method is based on the variation of the weight factors of the terms of the FCS-MPC cost function, so a higher weight factor is assigned to the cost function term that is exposed to greater disturbance. Empirical formulae of optimum weight factors as functions of the reference active and reactive power signals are proposed and mathematically derived. The investigated FCS-MPC control scheme is incorporated with the LVRT function to support the grid voltage in fulfilling and accomplishing the up-to-date grid codes. The LVRT algorithm is based on a modification of the references of active and reactive powers as functions of the instantaneous grid voltage such that suitable values of P and Q are injected to the grid during voltage sag.The performance of the elaborated FCS-MPC PQ scheme is studied under various operating scenarios, including steady-state and transient conditions. Results demonstrate the validity and effectiveness of the proposed scheme with regard to the achievement of high-performance operation and quick response of grid-tied inverters during normal and fault modes.
基金supported by Islamic Azad University–Ardabil Branch。
文摘In this study, a novel approach for dynamic modeling and closed-loop control of hybrid grid-connected renewable energy system with multi-input multi-output(MIMO) controller is proposed. The studied converter includes two parallel DC-DC boost converters, which are connected into the power grid through a single-phase H-bridge inverter. The proposed MIMO controller is developed for maximum power point tracking of photovoltaic(PV)/fuel-cell(FC) input power sources and output power control of the grid-connected DC-AC inverter. Considering circuit topology of the system, a unique MIMO model is proposed for the analysis of the entire system. A unique model of the system includes all of the circuit state variables in DCDC and DC-AC converters. In fact, from the viewpoint of closed-loop controller design, the hybrid grid-connected energy system is an MIMO system. The control inputs of the system are duty cycles of the DC-DC boost converters and the amplitude modulation index of DC-AC inverters. Furthermore, the control outputs are the output power of the PV/FC input power sources as well as AC power injected into the power grid. After the development of the unique model for the entire system, a decoupling network is introduced for system input-output linearization due to inherent connection of the control outputs with all of the system inputs. Considering the decoupled model and small signal linearization, the required linear controllers are designed to adjust the outputs. Finally, to evaluate the accuracy and effectiveness of the designed controllers, the PV/FC based grid-connected system is simulated using the MATLAB/Simulink toolbox.
文摘A general growth is being seen in the use of renewable energy resources,and photovoltaic cells are becoming increasingly popular for converting green renewable solar energy into electricity.Since the voltage produced by pho-tovoltaic cells is DC,an inverter is required to connect them to the grid with or without transformers.Transformerless inverters are often used for their low cost and low power loss,and light weight.However,these inverters suffer from leakage current in the system,a challenge that needs to be addressed.In this paper,a topology with two alternative connection models is presented to stabilize the common mode voltage and reduce the leakage current.The output voltage characteristic of the proposed inverter is five-level,which reduces the harmonic distortion in the output cur-rent compared to the two-and three-level inverters.The operation modes and output of the proposed topology are described and analyzed.The structures of the proposed inverter are simulated in MATLAB/Simulink and are compared with some well-known structures.Results show that the proposed structure with both connection models effectively reduces leakage current and improves grid current THD.
