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Article

Novel Active Damping Design Based on a Biquad Filter for an LLCL Grid-Tied Inverter †

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School of Electronic and Information, Zhongyuan University of Technology, Zhengzhou 450007, China
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Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu 525-8577, Shiga, Japan
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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
This paper is an extended version of our paper published in 2022 Asian Conference on Frontiers of Power and Energy (ACFPE), Chengdu, China, 21–23 October 2022; pp. 102–107.
Energies 2023, 16(3), 1093; https://doi.org/10.3390/en16031093
Submission received: 22 November 2022 / Revised: 30 December 2022 / Accepted: 16 January 2023 / Published: 19 January 2023

Abstract

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LLCL filters for grid-tied inverters have been adopted to get better performance for the harmonics near the switching frequency than commonly used LCL filters. However, the resonant peak caused by a pair of unstable resonance poles of the LLCL filters is introduced and makes the system become unstable. In this paper, a biquad filter composed of a notch filter and a resonator is introduced to restrain the resonant peak. In this method, the resonance point and the notch point of the biquad filter are placed at the appointed frequency, and the resonant peak is transferred to the stable area by phase transformation, so that the system does not cross −180° at the resonant peak. This method makes the system have higher control bandwidth and stronger robustness even in a weak power grid. Meanwhile, a proportional-integral multiresonant repetitive controller is used to restrain low-frequency current harmonics and improve the steady-state and dynamic performance of the control system. Furthermore, based on the active damping of the biquad filter, the stability criterion of the control system under a weak power grid is given. Finally, the accuracy of the analysis and the effectiveness of the method is verified by simulations.

1. Introduction

Under the target of “double carbon”, distributed generation system based on renewable energy such as wind, hydropower, and solar energy is an efficient way to relieve energy shortage and resolve environmental pollution problems [1,2,3]. Under above background, the grid-tied inverters (GTI) have been widely used [4]. It is widely believed that L filters or LCL filters are normally applied to suppress the high-frequency switching harmonics generated by GTI.
With the same filtering effect, the LCL filters need smaller volume and lower cost than L filters [5,6]. In [7], the LLCL filter topology is proposed to decrease the whole inductance. The series resonant branch of the LLCL filter is composed by connecting a small inductor in series to the filter capacitor branch. The resonant frequency is designed at the switching frequency (SF), which can better filter the harmonics at the SF. In contrast with the LCL filter with the same filtering effect, the inductance value of the LLCL filter is smaller [8]. But the LLCL filter still has its inherent resonant peak, which causes the instability of the GTI system. The stability of LLCL filter considering the effect of time delay was discussed in [9]. The results show that the sampling frequency of 1/6 ( f s / 6 ) can be used as the critical resonant frequency of the LLCL filter. If this frequency is higher than ( f s / 6 ), the damping method is not needed and the system is stable. Therefore, passive damping (PD) methods [10,11,12] and active damping (AD) methods [13,14,15] are usually used to restrain resonance, or hybrid damping methods combining PD methods and AD methods is applied [16].
Due to the efficiency problem, the AD method is considered a promising method to solve the resonance problem. Typical AD methods, such as capacitive-current feedback [13,14] or resonant-inductor-voltage feedback [15], compensate the control loop through feedback filter state variables. However, above schemes still need additional sensors, and they are easily affected by parameter changes and external interference. References [17,18] put forward to add notch filter (NF) to “leach resonance”. By adapting the notch frequency, the resonant peak could be absolutely eliminated without any sensors. However, because of the aging of devices, the saturation of the magnetic core, the impedance variation of the grid, and other factors, the resonant frequency will change accordingly. An AD method of LLCL filter based on proportional resonance control is proposed in [19,20]. Similarly, this method also does not consider the change in grid impedance. In [21], the notch frequency of NF is designed to be higher than the resonant frequency of the LCL filter, and the phase of the LCL filter is pushed down by using the phase lag of NF, to avoid the crossing of −180° at the resonant frequency and ensures the stability of the control system. However, the solution sacrifices part of the phase angle margin, and lowers the control bandwidth, so the performance of the control system will be dropped [22]. Because of the similarity between LLCL filters and LCL filters, the same problem will occur when this method is applied to the LLCL filter. Some researchers have advanced an adaptive filter to restrain resonance, but it ineluctably advances the quantity of calculation of the digital controller and limits the rise of the SF [23].
In consideration of the above theory, some literates have introduced a biquad filter (BF) [24], which is mainly to place the resonance point and notch point of BF at the appointed frequency and transfer the resonant peak to the stable region through a phase transition. In this way, the system will not pass through −180° at the resonant peak. Because the BF enables the system to have higher control bandwidth and strong robustness even in the weak power grid environment, it is only briefly introduced in [25]. Therefore, the BF is used in this paper to suppress the resonant peak of the system. Meanwhile, proportional-integral multiresonant (PIMR) repetitive controller [26,27] is used as the current regulator without any sensors and resistors. Simulations show that the proposed algorithm is robust even in weak power grids.
This paper mainly includes the following contents: the second section mainly analyzes the topology of LLCL GTI and the comparative analysis of the filtering performance of LLCL filters and LCL filters. The third section introduces the BF and analyzes the working mechanism of BF to restrain resonance in the weak power grid. In the fourth section, the stability of the PIMR repetitive controller is analyzed, the method of selecting parameters is given, and the criterion of system stability under the weak power grid environment is improved. Finally, verified by simulation, it is proved that the proposed scheme is accurate and effective.

2. Mathematical Model of LLCL-Type Inverter

The LLCL GTI and its topology are shown in Figure 1. Where the inductor L f and capacitor C f form a series resonant branch; L g is the equivalent grid impedance; the inductor on the inverter side and the inductor on the grid side are L 1 and L 2 respectively. The control system uses a phase-locked loop to obtain the grid-tied current instruction i 2 * synchronized with the grid voltage V g . In the control algorithm module, PIMR repetitive controller G i ( s ) is used, the transfer function of it is
G i ( s ) = G P I M R ( s ) = K p + K i s + n = 1 2 K r s s 2 + ( n ω 0 ) 2
where K r is gain of n-order resonance controller, K p = k p k r 2 ; K i = k i T 0 ; k p is the proportional controller gain, k r is the repetitive controller gain, T 0 is fundamental period of the reference signal. G n is the BF used to suppress the resonant peak of the LLCL filter. The control block diagram of the inverter system is shown in Figure 2. Because when digital control is adopted in LLCL GTI, PWM modulation will introduce computation delay and modulation delay, which is represented by G d ( s ) , and it can be approximated as
G d ( s ) = e 1.5 s T s
where T s is the sampling period, T s = 1 / f s , f s is sampling frequency, f s = 10 kHz. According to Figure 1, it could be inferred that the transfer function of the LLCL filter is
G L L C L ( s ) = i 2 u i n v = L f C f s 2 + 1 L 1 L 2 C f s 3 + ( L 1 + L 2 ) L f C f s 3 + ( L 1 + L 2 ) s
The resonant frequency of the LLCL filter is
f r _ L L C L = 1 2 π L 1 + L 2 ( L 1 L 2 + L 1 L f + L 2 L f ) C f
According to (3), the anti-resonant frequency of the LLCL filter is
f s _ L L C L = 1 2 π L f C f
Generally, the anti-resonant frequency is designed as the SF to suppress the switching harmonics [7].
When L f = 0 , the transfer function of the LCL filter can be obtained.
G L C L ( s ) = 1 L 1 L 2 C f s 3 + ( L 1 + L 2 ) s
The resonant frequency is
f r _ L C L = 1 2 π L 1 + L 2 L 1 L 2 C f
From the transfer functions of the LCL filter and LLCL filter, their Bode diagrams are plotted in Figure 3. Since the value of L f is extraordinarily little, the resonant frequencies of the LLCL filter and LCL filter are nearly equal. They have the same harmonic attenuation capacity of −20 dB/dec in the low-frequency band. In the middle-frequency band, they are both −60 dB/dec. The LCL filter still attenuates by −60 dB/dec in the high-frequency band, while the LLCL filter drops to −20 dB/dec. However, because of the existence of the LC resonant branch, the LLCL filter generates an anti-resonant peak at the SF, which advances the harmonic suppression performance of the filter. Therefore, the harmonic suppression capability of the LLCL filter is greater than that of the LCL filter.

3. Suppression of Resonant Peak

A BF is used to suppress the resonant peak of the LLCL filter in the paper, and the expression in its complex domain is
G n ( s ) = ω p 2 ω z 2 s 2 + ω z 2 s 2 + ω p 2
where ω p = 2 π f p and ω z = 2 π f z are a resonant pole and a notch point respectively, and a constant coefficient of ω p 2 / ω z 2 is used to ensure the unit DC gain ( f z < f p , f p > f s / 6 ). Usually, we use Tustin transformation to discretize NF and apply it to (8).
G n ( z ) = G n ( s ) | s = k z 1 z + 1 = ω p 2 ω z 2 ( k 2 + ω z 2 ) 2 ( k 2 ω z 2 ) z 1 + ( k 2 + ω z 2 ) z 2 ( k 2 + ω p 2 ) 2 ( k 2 ω p 2 ) z 1 + ( k 2 + ω p 2 ) z 2
where k = 2 T s , simplified (9) can be written as
G n ( z ) = a 0 a 1 z 1 + a 0 z 2 1 b 1 z 1 + z 2
where a 0 , a 1 and b 1 are the parameters of the BF, and they can be expressed as
a 0 = ω p 2 ω z 2 k 2 + ω z 2 k 2 + ω p 2 , a 1 = ω p 2 ω z 2 2 ( k 2 ω z 2 ) k 2 + ω p 2 , b 1 = 2 ( k 2 ω p 2 ) k 2 + ω p 2
It should be pointed that, as shown in (11), the transfer function of the BF given by (10) is characterized by three parameters a 0 , a 1 , and b 1 . Therefore, the BF could be easily implemented in a digital signal processor by using the Transposed Canonical Form, as it is shown in Figure 4.
The Bode diagram of the BF is plotted in Figure 5. It could be known that the BF generates grooves at f z and resonance at f p . Besides providing a phase lead of 180° in the frequency range of f z < f < f p , the BF also provides a phase of 0° in the range of f < f z and f > f p . Since f p is the target resonance frequency, it should be placed in the stable region, that is, f s / 6 < f p < f s / 2 . In order to suppress the resonant peak of the LLCL filter, it is only necessary to align the antiresonant peak f z of the BF with the resonant peak f r of the LLCL filter. But in fact, due to the uncertainty of power grid impedance, the f r will change greatly, so it is hard to achieve f z = f r . Under this circumstances, the value of f z can be appropriately reduced and need not be used to counteract the original resonant f r , that is, f z < f r could be satisfied, so that the BF invariably provides a 180° phase lead for the LLCL filter under the resonant frequency.
Due to the limited control bandwidth of the PIMR repetitive controller, the controller only has a great impact on the bandwidth and does not contribute significantly to the frequency outside the bandwidth. Therefore, the PIMR repetitive controller can be regarded as a proportional gain to evaluate the stability in the high-frequency band, which could be assumed G i ( s ) c and c is a constant. According to (12), the loop gain of the filter with and without BF could be plotted, as shown in Figure 6 and Figure 7. Figure 6 plots the Bode diagram of loop gain and the BF when the notch point of the BF is aligned with the resonant peak of the filter without considering the change of grid impedance, and Figure 7 shows the Bode diagram of loop gain and the BF when the notch point of the BF is not aligned with the resonant peak of the LLCL filter. Table 1 gives the parameters of a single-phase LLCL GTI.
T i 2 ( s ) = G i ( s ) G n ( s ) G d ( s ) G L L C L ( s )
ω z min = lim L g L 1 + L 2 + L g ( L 1 ( L 2 + L g ) + L 1 L f + ( L 2 + L g ) L f ) C f = 1 ( L 1 + L f ) C f
As shown in Figure 6, when BF is not added, G n ( s ) can be seen as constant. T i 2 ( s ) traverses −180° at f r and has an infinite resonant peak. When the BF is added, because the BF provides a 180° phase lead, the phase diagram of T i 2 ( s ) no longer traverses −180° at f r , and the −180° crossover is increased from the original f r to f s / 6 . When grid impedance is considered, the resonant frequency of the system becomes smaller, as shown in Figure 7. f z is usually set to the minimum value that f r could achieve to ensure the system is robust enough. It is known from (13) that when L g is infinity, f z is the minimum.
Figure 8 is the system Bode diagram when L g = 2 mH, 4 mH, and 6 mH. It can be known from the figure that their amplitude margins are 26.7 dB, 24.3 dB, and 22.9 dB at f s / 6 respectively when L g = 2 mH, 4 mH, and 6 mH. And all three of them have a phase margin of 23°, so the control system can remain stable.
According to the above analysis, we could know that the BF must satisfy the stability at f p > f s / 6 and f z f r .

4. Stability Analysis of Current Controller under the BF

The grid current contains a lot of low-frequency harmonics in the GTI system, so it is essential to choose the appropriate current controller to dispose of it. Because the PIMR repetitive controller has strong harmonic suppression capacity and great dynamic performance, the PIMR repetitive controller is selected in this paper. The controller consists of a repetitive controller in parallel with a proportional gain controller, which reduces a large number of parameters of the traditional proportional multi-resonant controller, its expression in the discrete domain is
G P I M R = k p + G Q r c = k p + Q ( z ) z N 1 Q ( z ) z N z m k r S ( z )
As shown in Figure 9, Q ( z ) is an internal function and is constant in the paper, that is Q ( z ) = 0.97 . The main purpose of the existence of Q ( z ) is to increase the peak gain of the repetitive controller at a high-frequency range, to improve the stability of the system. N = f s / f 0 , N refers to the sampling times in each period, f 0 refers to the fundamental frequency of power grid. z m is the phase advance compensator. S ( z ) is a low-pass filter for attenuating high-frequency signals. As shown in (15), P ( z ) is the controlled object, which refers to the product of the LLCL filter and BF in the paper, that is
P ( z ) = G n ( z ) G L L C L ( z )
The discrete repetitive control expression is
G Q r c ( z ) = Q ( z ) z N 1 Q ( z ) z N z m k r S ( z )
The tracking error of the system is
E ( z ) = 1 1 + [ G Q r c ( z ) + k p ] P ( z ) [ i 2 * V g ( z ) ]
The characteristic polynomial is
1 + [ G Q r c ( z ) + k p ] P ( z ) = 1 + G Q r c ( z ) P ( z ) + k p P ( z ) = [ 1 + k p P ( z ) ] [ 1 + G Q r c ( z ) P ( z ) 1 + k p P ( z ) ] = [ 1 + k p P ( z ) ] [ 1 + G Q r c ( z ) P 0 ( z ) ]
P 0 ( z ) = P ( z ) 1 + k p P ( z )
The system will be in a stable state if the following two conditions are met.
①: All roots of 1 + k p P ( z ) = 0 are in the unit circle.
②: [ 1 + G Q r c ( z ) P 0 ( z ) ] 0 .
Substitute (16) into ②, We can get the following:
1 Q ( z ) z N + Q ( z ) z N + m k r S ( z ) P 0 ( z ) 0
To be satisfied (20), it needs to be satisfied
Q ( z ) z N [ 1 z m k r S ( z ) P 0 ( z ) ] < 1 ( z = e s t = e j ω t , 0 < ω < π / T )
Because the frequency of the reference signal and the interference signal is an integral multiple of the fundamental frequency, (22) could be get by substituting z N = 1 into (21)
Q ( z ) [ 1 k r z m S ( z ) P 0 ( z ) ] < 1
According to the frequency characteristic:
P 0 ( j ω ) = N p ( ω ) exp ( j θ p ( w ) )
where N p ( ω ) and θ p ( ω ) are the amplitude-frequency characteristics and phase-frequency characteristics of the P ( z ) respectively.
Substitute P 0 ( z ) and S ( z ) into (22), We can get the following:
1 k r N p ( ω ) N s ( ω ) e j [ θ s ( ω ) + θ p ( ω ) + m ω ] < 1
The exponential function e is expanded according to the Euler formula, (24) could be expressed as
k r N p ( ω ) N s ( ω ) < 2 cos [ θ s ( ω ) + θ p ( ω ) + m ω ]
Due to N p ( ω ) > 0 , N s ( ω ) > 0 , (25) necessarily requires that is
θ s ( ω ) + θ p ( ω ) + m ω < 90
0 < k r < min 2 cos [ θ s ( ω ) + θ p ( ω ) + m ω ] N p ( ω ) N s ( ω )
The system is stable when k r and m satisfy (26) and (27). Formula (26) contains only one parameter m, so the value of m could be confirmed first, and then the value of k r could be confirmed by (27). The value of k p could be confirmed by condition ①, and the fourth-order Butterworth filter S ( z ) is selected in the paper. The cutoff frequency of it is 1 kHz, that is
S ( z ) = 0 . 004824 z 4 + 0 . 0193 z 3 + 0.02895 z 2 + 0.0193 z + 0.004824 z 4 2.37 z 3 + 2.314 z 2 1.055 z + 0.1874
According to [26], they could be acquired as follows: k p = 5 , k r = 3 , m = 7 .
With increasing grid-tied power, the power grid is getting weaker and weaker, which has a great impact on the performance of GTI. Therefore, the designed control system should have strong robustness in response to the changes in grid impedance. If the impedance of the power grid changes, it could be seen from the analysis in the second section that the resonance zero point f z of the BF should be designed at the minimum value that can be attained by the resonance point f r of the LLCL filter, so the system is stable. According to (22), we define
H ( e j ω ) = Q ( z ) [ 1 k r z m S ( z ) P 0 ( z ) ] , z = e s t = e j ω t
If H ( e j ω ) < 1 , the end of vector H ( e j ω ) is in the unit circle, which means the system is stable [26]. Because H ( e j ω ) < 1 is the stability criterion of the whole system, it is necessary to regard the calculation delay of z 1 , so that P 1 ( z ) = P 0 ( z ) z 1 , the stability criterion becomes
H 1 ( e j ω ) = Q ( z ) [ 1 k r z m S ( z ) P 1 ( z ) ]
Therefore, H ( e j ω ) < 1 could be used as the stability criterion of the whole system. When L g = 2 mH, 4 mH, and 6 mH, the trajectory of H 1 ( e j ω ) is plotted in Figure 10, it is easy to see that the trajectories are all in the unit circle. Therefore, the proposed control scheme is robust to the variety of power grid impedance.

5. Simulation Verification

To testify to the feasibility of the theoretical analysis, the model of the LLCL inverter shown in Figure 1 is built by MATLAB/Simulink and the simulation analysis is conducted. The simulation parameters are shown in Table 1.
Figure 11 is the grid-tied current waveform before and after the control switch. From Figure 11, at the beginning, it is cut to the state of the BF, the grid-tied current waveform is smooth, and the system remains stable. When the system is cut to the state without BF, the grid-tied current begins to oscillate and the system rapidly loses stability. Therefore, the proposed BF can suppress the resonance and make the system stable.
Figure 12 and Figure 13 are the Fourier analysis of the grid-tied current of the LLCL filter and LCL filter under BF respectively. By comparing the Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) of the two figures, we could see that the filtering effect of LLCL GTI is better. And the high-frequency harmonic content of the grid-tied current of the LCL filter at the SF is 0.06%, while that of the LLCL filter is less than 0.001%. It could be known that the high-frequency harmonics at the SF are effectively filtered out by series branches of the LLCL filter, and the low-frequency harmonics are suppressed by PIMR repetitive controller. Figure 14 plots grid voltage and current waveforms of LLCL filter with L g = 0 mH. From Figure 14, the grid-connected current waveform has no large fluctuation and distortion, and the grid voltage and the grid current is in the same phase. Therefore, the proposed control strategy can make the system have better steady-state performance.
Figure 15, Figure 16 and Figure 17 show the Grid-tied current waveform before and after the control switch with L g = 2 mH, 4 mH and 6 mH. The THD of the three cases is 1.52%, 1.47%, and 1.49%, respectively. From the THD value, it can be seen that the value of THD is lower than the international standard, so the BF method can reduce the adverse impact of power grid impedance to a certain extent. At the same time, it could be known that when the BF is enabled, the waveform of the grid current is smooth, and when the BF is disabled, the current waveform rapidly oscillates and becomes unstable. This verifies that the proposed control strategy is still valid even in the weak power grids.
According to different grid impedances, the impedance values are switched every 50 ms to obtain the grid voltage and current waveforms as shown in Figure 18. By switching between different L g , it could be known that grid voltage and current waveforms are smooth and basically unchanged even at the moment of switching, it could be confirmed that even in the weak power grids, the system can also show excellent performance and have strong robustness.
Figure 19 shows the simulation results of power grid current under a given sudden change of current value. It is shown that when the given current suddenly changes from 5 A to 10 A, the grid-tied current can quickly track the given value and complete the mutation in only 60 ms, which is in line with our expectations, so it can be determined that the proposed control strategy has a rapid convergence speed and great dynamic performance.

6. Conclusions

In the paper, an AD method is advanced to restrain the resonant peak by BF composed of resonance and filtering. This method could efficiently transfer the resonant peak to the stable region, so that the system does not cross −180° at the resonant frequency. Meanwhile, PIMR repetitive controller is adopted in this paper, and the controller parameters are selected after strict theoretical demonstration. Through theoretical and simulation analysis, it is proved that the system still has strong robustness even in weak power grids.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization, B.W. and Q.Z.; methodology, B.W. and G.Z.; software, G.Z. and H.Z.; validation, X.Y. and G.Z.; formal analysis, Q.Z. and B.W.; investigation, K.L.; resources, Q.Z. and X.Y.; writing—original draft preparation, B.W.; writing—review and editing, B.W., Q.Z., G.Z., K.L., X.Y. and H.Z.; visualization, K.L. and H.Z.; supervision, Q.Z.; project administration, Q.Z. and X.Y. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

Funding

This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61973157, in part by the Key Technologies Research and Development Program of Henan under Grant 222102210016, and in part by the Incubation Program for Young Master Supervisor under Grant D202213.

Data Availability Statement

The study did not report any data.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Abbreviations

The following abbreviations are used in this manuscript:
GTIGrid-Tied Inverter
PDPassive Damping
ADActive Damping
NFNotch Filter
SFSwitching Frequency
BFBiquad Filter
PIMRProportional-Integral Multiresonant
THDTotal Harmonic Distortion

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Figure 1. LLCL single-phase GTI and its topology.
Figure 1. LLCL single-phase GTI and its topology.
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Figure 2. Control block diagram of the inverter system.
Figure 2. Control block diagram of the inverter system.
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Figure 3. Bode diagrams of LCL filter and LLCL filter.
Figure 3. Bode diagrams of LCL filter and LLCL filter.
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Figure 4. Transposed Canonical Form for the implementation of a digital BF.
Figure 4. Transposed Canonical Form for the implementation of a digital BF.
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Figure 5. Bode diagram of the BF.
Figure 5. Bode diagram of the BF.
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Figure 6. Bode diagram of loop gain and the BF at f z = f r .
Figure 6. Bode diagram of loop gain and the BF at f z = f r .
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Figure 7. Bode diagram of loop gain and the BF at f z < f r .
Figure 7. Bode diagram of loop gain and the BF at f z < f r .
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Figure 8. System Bode diagram when L g = 2 mH, 4 mH and 6 mH.
Figure 8. System Bode diagram when L g = 2 mH, 4 mH and 6 mH.
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Figure 9. System diagram of PIMR repetitive controller.
Figure 9. System diagram of PIMR repetitive controller.
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Figure 10. The trajectory of H 1 ( e j ω ) with L g = 2 mH, 4 mH and 6 mH.
Figure 10. The trajectory of H 1 ( e j ω ) with L g = 2 mH, 4 mH and 6 mH.
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Figure 11. Grid-tied current waveform before and after control switch.
Figure 11. Grid-tied current waveform before and after control switch.
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Figure 12. FFT analysis of LLCL grid-tied current with L g = 0 mH.
Figure 12. FFT analysis of LLCL grid-tied current with L g = 0 mH.
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Figure 13. FFT analysis of LCL grid-tied current with L g = 0 mH.
Figure 13. FFT analysis of LCL grid-tied current with L g = 0 mH.
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Figure 14. Grid voltage and current waveforms of LLCL filter with L g = 0 mH.
Figure 14. Grid voltage and current waveforms of LLCL filter with L g = 0 mH.
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Figure 15. Grid-tied current waveform before and after control switch with L g = 2 mH.
Figure 15. Grid-tied current waveform before and after control switch with L g = 2 mH.
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Figure 16. Grid-tied current waveform before and after control switch with L g = 4 mH.
Figure 16. Grid-tied current waveform before and after control switch with L g = 4 mH.
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Figure 17. Grid-tied current waveform before and after control switch with L g = 6 mH.
Figure 17. Grid-tied current waveform before and after control switch with L g = 6 mH.
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Figure 18. Simulation waveform of control system when power grid impedance changes.
Figure 18. Simulation waveform of control system when power grid impedance changes.
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Figure 19. Grid current waveform under given current value.
Figure 19. Grid current waveform under given current value.
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Table 1. Control parameters of the main circuit.
Table 1. Control parameters of the main circuit.
ParametersValue
input voltage V d c /V380
grid voltage U g /V220
frequency f 0 /Hz50
switching frequency f s w /kHz10
inverter side inductance L 1 /mH3.8
grid side inductance L 2 /mH2.2
capacitor C f / μ F10
filter inductance L f / μ H25.33
sampling frequency f s / kHz10
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