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Design of a robust digital current controller for a grid connected interleaved inverter

Design of a robust digital current controller for a grid connected interleaved inverter
Design of a robust digital current controller for a grid connected interleaved inverter
This paper is concerned with the design and practical implementation of a robust digital current controller for a threephase voltage source grid-connected interleaved inverter. Each phase consists of 6 half-bridge channels connected in parallel.
Due to the current ripple cancellation of the interleaving topology, only small output filter capacitors are required which provide high impedance to grid voltage harmonics and hence better current quality compared to traditional 2-level LCL topology.
The current in each inductor is controlled via a single feedback loop. A feedforward loop of the grid voltage is incorporated to compensate for the grid disturbance. To control the high resonance frequency of the filter, high sampling and switching frequencies are required. Alternatively, resistors in series with the filter capacitors are used to provide damping.
This method becomes practically possible due to the low magnitude of the current of the capacitors and consequently low power dissipation in the damping resistors. The paper also studies in detail the effects of computational time delay and grid impedance variation on system stability. A phase lag compensator incorporated in the inductor current loop is designed to increase system immunity to grid impedance variations. Simulation and practical results are presented to validate the design.
Abu-sara, M. A.
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Sharkh, S. M.
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Abu-sara, M. A.
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Sharkh, S. M.
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Abu-sara, M. A. and Sharkh, S. M. (2010) Design of a robust digital current controller for a grid connected interleaved inverter. ISIE 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, Bari, Italy. 04 - 07 Jul 2010. 6 pp . (In Press)

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This paper is concerned with the design and practical implementation of a robust digital current controller for a threephase voltage source grid-connected interleaved inverter. Each phase consists of 6 half-bridge channels connected in parallel.
Due to the current ripple cancellation of the interleaving topology, only small output filter capacitors are required which provide high impedance to grid voltage harmonics and hence better current quality compared to traditional 2-level LCL topology.
The current in each inductor is controlled via a single feedback loop. A feedforward loop of the grid voltage is incorporated to compensate for the grid disturbance. To control the high resonance frequency of the filter, high sampling and switching frequencies are required. Alternatively, resistors in series with the filter capacitors are used to provide damping.
This method becomes practically possible due to the low magnitude of the current of the capacitors and consequently low power dissipation in the damping resistors. The paper also studies in detail the effects of computational time delay and grid impedance variation on system stability. A phase lag compensator incorporated in the inductor current loop is designed to increase system immunity to grid impedance variations. Simulation and practical results are presented to validate the design.

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Accepted/In Press date: 18 March 2010
Venue - Dates: ISIE 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, Bari, Italy, 2010-07-04 - 2010-07-07

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Local EPrints ID: 73643
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/73643
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ORCID for S. M. Sharkh: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-7335-8503

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Date deposited: 18 Mar 2010
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 02:38

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Author: M. A. Abu-sara
Author: S. M. Sharkh ORCID iD

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