A Systematic Method for Designing a PR Controller and Active Damping of the LCL Filter for Single-Phase Grid-Connected PV Inverters

Ningyun Zhang, Houjun Tang and Chen Yao
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Ningyun Zhang: School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Rd, Minhang District, Shanghai 200240, China
Houjun Tang: School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Rd, Minhang District, Shanghai 200240, China
Chen Yao: School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Rd, Minhang District, Shanghai 200240, China

Energies, 2014, vol. 7, issue 6, 1-21

Abstract: The Proportional Resonant (PR) current controller provides gains at a certain frequency (resonant frequency) and eliminates steady state errors. Therefore, the PR controller can be successfully applied to single grid-connected PV inverter current control. On the contrary, a PI controller has steady-state errors and limited disturbance rejection capability. Compared with the L- and LC filters, the LCL filter has excellent harmonic suppression capability, but the inherent resonant peak of the LCL filter may introduce instability in the whole system. Therefore, damping must be introduced to improve the control of the system. Considering the controller and the LCL filter active damping as a whole system makes the controller design method more complex. In fact, their frequency responses may affect each other. The traditional trial-and-error procedure is too time-consuming and the design process is inefficient. This paper provides a detailed analysis of the frequency response influence between the PR controller and the LCL filter regarded as a whole system. In addition, the paper presents a systematic method for designing controller parameters and the capacitor current feedback coefficient factor of LCL filter active-damping. The new method relies on meeting the stable margins of the system. Moreover, the paper also clarifies the impact of the grid on the inverter output current. Numerical simulation and a 3 kW laboratory setup assessed the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method.

Keywords: single phase; grid-connected; LCL filter; active damping; proportional resonant (PR) controller (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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