Fast Adaptive Robust Differentiator Based Robust-Adaptive Control of Grid-Tied Inverters with a New L Filter Design Method

In this research, a new nonlinear and adaptive state feedback controller with a fast-adaptive robust differentiator is presented for grid-tied inverters. All parameters and external disturbances are taken as uncertain in the design of the proposed controller without the disadvantages of singularity and over-parameterization. A robust differentiator based on the second order sliding mode is also developed with a fast-adaptive structure to be able to consider the time derivative of the virtual control input. Unlike the conventional backstepping, the proposed differentiator overcomes the problem of explosion of complexity. In the closed-loop control system, the three phase source currents and direct current (DC) bus voltage are assumed to be available for feedback. Using the Lyapunov stability theory, it is proven that the overall control system has the global asymptotic stability. In addition, a new simple L filter design method based on the total harmonic distortion approach is also proposed. Simulations and experimental results show that the proposed controller assurances drive the tracking errors to zero with better performance, and it is robust against all uncertainties. Moreover, the proposed L filter design method matches the total harmonic distortion (THD) aim in the design with the experimental result

Modeling and Large Signal Stability Analysis of A DC/AC Microgrid

abstract: The concept of the microgrid is widely studied and explored in both academic and industrial societies. The microgrid is a power system with distributed generations and loads, which is intentionally planned and can be disconnected from the main utility grid. Nowadays, various distributed power generations (wind resource, photovoltaic resource, etc.) are emerging to be significant power sources of the microgrid. This thesis focuses on the system structure of Photovoltaics (PV)-dominated microgrid, precisely modeling and stability analysis of the specific system. The grid-connected mode microgrid is considered, and system control objectives are: PV panel is working at the maximum power point (MPP), the DC link voltage is regulated at a desired value, and the grid side current is also controlled in phase with grid voltage. To simulate the real circuits of the whole system with high fidelity instead of doing real experiments, PLECS software is applied to construct the detailed model in chapter 2. Meanwhile, a Simulink mathematical model of the microgrid system is developed in chapter 3 for faster simulation and energy management analysis. Simulation results of both the PLECS model and Simulink model are matched with the expectations. Next chapter talks about state space models of different power stages for stability analysis utilization. Finally, the large signal stability analysis of a grid-connected inverter, which is based on cascaded control of both DC link voltage and grid side current is discussed. The large signal stability analysis presented in this thesis is mainly focused on the impact of the inductor and capacitor capacity and the controller parameters on the DC link stability region. A dynamic model with the cascaded control logic is proposed. One Lyapunov large-signal stability analysis tool is applied to derive the domain of attraction, which is the asymptotic stability region. Results show that both the DC side capacitor and the inductor of grid side filter can significantly influence the stability region of the DC link voltage. PLECS simulation models developed for the microgrid system are applied to verify the stability regions estimated from the Lyapunov large signal analysis method.Dissertation/ThesisMasters Thesis Engineering 201

Single-phase inverter with active ripple energy storage

It is well known that conventional energy sources such as coal, oil, and natural gas are decreasing and a growing problem of environmental pollution. The renewable energy sources are becoming the best alternative for a clean and inexhaustible energy source, and solar energy is one of the most popular energy sources. Solar energy has gained more and more attention because of its advantages such as abundance, pollution free, renewability and low maintenance. The solar energy is usually obtained from photovoltaic (PV) cell which transform the solar irradiance into direct current (DC), that is electric energy. Since the majority of the electric devices and the main grid, require AC (alternate current) a power converter is needed to convert the DC electricity coming from the PV cell into AC electricity. The most used electronic converter for that is an inverter. Inverters contains semiconductor switches that are often controlled using the pulse width modulation technique, which yields second-order harmonic currents and corresponding ripple voltages on the DC bus. This double line frequency on the DC bus affect the performance of the photovoltaic system. Bulky DC link electrolytic capacitors are typically employed as transient energy buffer to decouple, or smooth out, the pulsating ac power from constant dc power. However, the use of electrolytic capacitor leads to temperature and aging concerns, and this also result in a low power density. A novel active power decoupling method proposed to add a bidirectional buck and boost converter that can store the ripple energy in its inductor and capacitor. This method can effectively reduce the energy storage in the DC link capacitor. This thesis deals with the design of such as bidirectional DC-DC converter and an inverter. The theoretical work mode of the bidirectional converter together with an inverter is studied. The power stages, inverter and bidirectional converter are studied in steady state to dimension the components. These stages are also modelled in their small signal equivalent model to find their transfer functions need to design the control loops. Different control strategies are studied and implemented to achieve the independent controls of the inverter and DC-DC converter. By using LTspice, the simulation results have verified the proposed power decoupling method.Es bien conocido que las fuentes de energía convencionales como el carbón, petróleo y gas natural están disminuyendo y volviéndose un problema de contaminación ambiental. Las fuentes de energías renovables están llegando a ser la mejor alternativa para a una fuente de energía limpia e inagotable y la energía solar es una de la más popular fuente de energía. La energía solar ha ganado más y más atención por sus ventajas, tales como, abundancia, libre de polución, renovabilidad y poco mantenimiento. La energía solar es normalmente obtenida de una célula fotovoltaica (FV) la cual transforma la irradiancia solar en corriente continua (CC), es decir, en energía eléctrica. Como la mayoría de los dispositivos electrónicos y la red requieren corriente alterna (CA) un convertidor de potencia es necesitado para convertir la electricidad continua proveniente de la célula fotovoltaica en electricidad alterna. El dispositivo más usado para esto es un inversor. Los inversores contienen conmutadores semiconductores que son a menudo controlados usando la técnica de modulación por ancho de pulso la cual produce un armónico de segundo orden en la corriente que da a lugar un rizado en el voltaje del bus de continua. Esta frecuencia de dos veces la frecuencia de línea en el bus de continua afecta el rendimiento del sistema fotovoltaico. Grandes condensadores electrolíticos son típicamente usados como buffer de energía transitoria para desacoplar, o suavizar, la potencia alterna de la potencia continua. Sin embargo, el uso de condensadores electrolíticos da lugar a problemas de temperatura y degeneración y estos además resultan en una baja densidad de potencia. Un método novedoso propone añadir un convertidor elevador reductor, bidireccional, que almacene la energía de rizado en sus inductor y capacitor. Este método puede reducir eficazmente la energía almacenada en el condensador usado en el DC link. Esta tesis trata sobre el diseño de un convertidor CC-CC bidireccional y un inversor. El modo de operación teórico del convertidor bidireccional junto con un inversor es estudiado. Las etapas de potencia, inversor y convertidor bidireccional son estudiadas en estado estacionario para dimensionar los componentes. Estas etapas son también modeladas en su modelo equivalente en pequeña señal para encontrar sus funciones de transferencia necesarias para el diseño de los lazos de control. Diferentes estrategias de control son estudiadas e implementadas para conseguir el control del inversor y del convertidor de continua. Usando LTspice, los resultados de las simulaciones han verificado el método propuesto de desacoplo de potencia.Sutil Ortiz, AM. (2018). Inversor monofásico con corrección activa de rizado. Universitat Politècnica de València. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/103423TFG

Development and validation of enhanced fuzzy logic controller and boost converter topologies for a single phase grid system

Introduction. Solar photovoltaic system is one of the most essential and demanding renewable energy source in the current days, due to the benefits of high efficiency, reduced cost, no pollution, and environment friendly characteristics. Here, the maximum power point tracking controller has been implemented for obtaining an extreme power from the photovoltaic array. For this purpose, there are different controller and converter strategies have been deployed in the conventional works. It includes perturb and observation, incremental conductance, fuzzy logic systems, and hill climbing, and these techniques intend to extract the high amount of power from the solar systems under different climatic conditions. Still, it limits with the issues like increased design complexity, high cost consumption, high harmonics, and increased time consumption. The goal of this work is to deploy an improved controlling and converter topologies to regulate the output voltage and power fed to the single phase grid systems. The novelty of the work aims to develop an enhanced fuzzy logic controller based maximum power point tracking mechanism with the boost DC-DC converter topology for a single phase grid tied photovoltaic systems. Practical value. Also, the higher order harmonics suppression and unbalanced current elimination are handled by the use of LCL filtering technique, which efficiently reduces the harmonics in the output of inverter voltage and current. Moreover, it helps to obtain the reduced total harmonics distortion value with improved accuracy and efficiency. Results. There are different performance indicators have been evaluated for validating the proposed enhanced fuzzy logic controller–maximum power point tracking controlling technique. Moreover, the obtained results are compared with some of the conventional controlling algorithms for proving the betterment of the proposed work.Вступ. Сонячна фотоелектрична система є одним з найбільш важливих та затребуваних відновлюваних джерел енергії в наші дні завдяки перевагам високої ефективності, низької вартості, відсутності забруднення та екологічно безпечним характеристикам. При цьому було реалізовано контролер стеження за точкою максимальної потужності для отримання екстремальної потужності від фотогальванічної батареї. З цією метою у традиційних роботах використовуються різні стратегії контролерів та перетворювачів. Це включає збурення та спостереження, інкрементну провідність, системи нечіткої логіки та сходження на пагорб, і ці методи призначені для отримання великої кількості енергії із сонячних систем у різних кліматичних умовах. Тим не менш, це обмежується такими проблемами, як підвищена складність конструкції, високі витрати, високі гармоніки та збільшення витрат часу. Метою цієї роботи є розвиток вдосконаленого управління та топології перетворювача для регулювання вихідної напруги та потужності, що подається до однофазних мережевих систем. Новизна роботи спрямована на розробку вдосконаленого механізму відстеження точки максимальної потужності на основі контролера з нечіткою логікою з топологією перетворювача постійного струму, що підвищує, для однофазних фотоелектричних систем, прив'язаних до мережі. Практична цінність. Крім того, придушення гармонік вищих порядків та усунення незбалансованого струму здійснюється за допомогою методу LCL-фільтрації, який ефективно зменшує гармоніку на виході інвертора напруги та струму. Крім того, це допомагає отримати зменшене значення повного гармонійного спотворення з покращеною точністю та ефективністю. Результати. Існують різні показники ефективності, які були оцінені для перевірки запропонованого покращеного контролера нечіткої логіки – методу керування відстеженням точки максимальної потужності. Крім того, отримані результати порівнюються з деякими звичайними алгоритмами контролю для доведення кращості запропонованої роботи

Technical Challenges and Solutions of a three-phase bidirectional two stage Electric Vehicle charger

The sustainability of the power grid owing to the building strain of the ever-growing demand for electrical energy urges innovative and more practical solutions that enable active participation of end-users in stable and reliable management of power systems. One of the emerging projections of such a two-way exchange of electrical power between the grid and consumers is the developing field of bidirectional energy trade between power providers and electric vehicle owners. A bidirectional, three-phase, two-stage off-board electric vehicle EV charger design is proposed in this research. The first stage acts as alternating current AC to direct current DC converter during charging operation and behaves as three phase inverter and power factor corrector when energy exchange is from vehicle to grid. The second stage is a bidirectional DC-DC level converter linked to the first stage by a DC bus. The grid side filter is designed to enable the grid interfacing without any significant power quality problems. The proposed design, topology and the devised control infrastructure are tested through simulations on MATLAB/Simulink platform by interfacing the charger to a three-phase AC microgrid and the results approve the performance of the proposed charging topology

Multiple low frequency dual reference PWM control of a grid connected photovoltaic three phase NPC inverter with DC/DC boost converter

In recent years, power demand of industrial applications has increased significantly reaching some megawatts. The use of multilevel converters for applications of medium and high powers is proposed as a solution to drawback semiconductor technology. A multilevel converter not only achieves high power ratings, but also enables the use of renewable energy sources. Renewable energy sources such as photovoltaic can be easily interfaced to a multilevel converter system for a high power application. This paper presents the simulation study in Matlab/Simulink of a grid connected photovoltaic three phase Neutral Point Clamped (NPC) inverter with DC/DC boost converter for constant and variable solar radiation

Contributions to impedance shaping control techniques for power electronic converters

El conformado de la impedancia o admitancia mediante control para convertidores electrónicos de potencia permite alcanzar entre otros objetivos: mejora de la robustez de los controles diseñados, amortiguación de la dinámica de la tensión en caso de cambios de carga, y optimización del filtro de red y del controlador en un solo paso (co-diseño). La conformación de la impedancia debe ir siempre acompañada de un buen seguimiento de referencias. Por tanto, la idea principal es diseñar controladores con una estructura sencilla que equilibren la consecución de los objetivos marcados en cada caso. Este diseño se realiza mediante técnicas modernas, cuya resolución (síntesis del controlador) requiere de herramientas de optimización. La principal ventaja de estas técnicas sobre las clásicas, es decir, las basadas en soluciones algebraicas, es su capacidad para tratar problemas de control complejos (plantas de alto orden y/o varios objetivos) de una forma considerablemente sistemática. El primer problema de control por conformación de la impedancia consiste en reducir el sobreimpulso de tensión ante cambios de carga y minimizar el tamaño de los componentes del filtro pasivo en los convertidores DC-DC. Posteriormente, se diseñan controladores de corriente y tensión para un inversor DC-AC trifásico que logren una estabilidad robusta del sistema para una amplia variedad de filtros. La condición de estabilidad robusta menos conservadora, siendo la impedancia de la red la principal fuente de incertidumbre, es el índice de pasividad. En el caso de los controladores de corriente, el impacto de los lazos superiores en la estabilidad basada en la impedancia también se analiza mediante un índice adicional: máximo valor singular. Cada uno de los índices se aplica a un rango de frecuencias determinado. Finalmente, estas condiciones se incluyen en el diseño en un solo paso del controlador de un convertidor back-to-back utilizado para operar generadores de inducción doblemente alimentados (aerogeneradores tipo 3) presentes en algunos parques eólicos. Esta solución evita los problemas de oscilación subsíncrona, derivados de las líneas de transmisión con condensadores de compensación en serie, a los que se enfrentan estos parques eólicos. Los resultados de simulación y experimentales demuestran la eficacia y versatilidad de la propuesta.Impedance or admittance shaping by control for power electronic converters allows to achieve among other objectives: robustness enhancement of the designed controls, damped voltage dynamics in case of load changes, and grid filter and controller optimization in a single step (co-design). Impedance shaping must always be accompanied by a correct reference tracking performance. Therefore, the main idea is to design controllers with a simple structure that balance the achievement of the objectives set in each case. This design is carried out using modern techniques, whose resolution (controller synthesis) requires optimization tools. The main advantage of these techniques over the classical ones, i.e. those based on algebraic solutions, is their ability to deal with complex control problems (high order plants and/or several objectives) in a considerably systematic way. The first impedance shaping control problem is to reduce voltage overshoot under load changes and minimize the size of passive filter components in DC-DC converters. Subsequently, current and voltage controllers for a three-phase DC-AC inverter are designed to achieve robust system stability for a wide variety of filters. The least conservative robust stability condition, with grid impedance being the main source of uncertainty, is the passivity index. In the case of current controllers, the impact of higher loops on impedance-based stability is also analyzed by an additional index: maximum singular value. Each of the indices is applied to a given frequency range. Finally, these conditions are included in the one-step design of the controller of a back-to-back converter used to operate doubly fed induction generators (type-3 wind turbines) present in some wind farms. This solution avoids the sub-synchronous oscillation problems, derived from transmission lines with series compensation capacitors, faced by these wind farms. Simulation and experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and versatility of the proposa

Passivity-based harmonic control through series/parallel damping of an H-bridge rectifier

Nowadays the H-bridge is one of the preferred solutions to connect DC loads or distributed sources to the single-phase grid. The control aims are: sinusoidal grid current with unity power factor and optimal DC voltage regulation capability. These objectives should be satisfied, regardless the conditions of the grid, the DC load/source and the converter nonlinearities. In this paper a passivity-based approach is thoroughly investigated proposing a damping-based solution for the error dynamics. Practical experiments with a real converter validate the analysis.