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Enhancement of the voltage control response in three-phase photovoltaic inverters with small dc capacitors

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2023

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IEEE
Acceso abierto / Sarbide irekia
Artículo / Artikulua
Versión aceptada / Onetsi den bertsioa

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AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020/PID2019-110956RB-I00/ES/

Abstract

In the case of photovoltaic (PV) inverters, an adequate dc voltage regulation is fundamental to maximize or limit the power injected into the grid. However, the traditional control requires a large dc capacitance to ensure stability in the whole operating range while the existing alternatives, despite achieving a stable control with a small capacitance, become too slow in the open-circuit area. This paper proposes two control methods to improve this performance. Firstly, a new voltage control with virtual impedance emulation is presented, showing that the response becomes faster in all operating points. Secondly, the control with impedance emulation is combined with a feed-forward compensation, further improving the dynamic response. Both methods are very simple to implement and their superior performance when using a small dc capacitance is verified by means of simulation results.

Keywords

Emulation, Generators, Impedance, Inverters, Photoltaic converters, Photovoltaic power systems, Photovoltaic systems, Small-signal modeling, Virtual resistance, Voltage, Voltage control

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Ingeniería Eléctrica, Electrónica y de Comunicación / Ingeniaritza Elektrikoa, Elektronikoaren eta Telekomunikazio Ingeniaritzaren

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This work was supported by the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) under grant PID2019-110956RB-I00/AEI/10.13039.

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