Internal Model Power Synchronization Control of a PV-Based Voltage-Source Converter in Weak-Grid and Islanded Conditions

Abstract

The power synchronization control strategy for grid-connected voltage-source converters (VSCs) provides an operation similar to synchronous machines. It is able to avoid the instability caused by a standard phase-locked loop in integration into weak grids. However, the non-minimum phase phenomenon in the developed dynamics places a fundamental limitation on the ac system's stability. This paper proposes a one-degree-of-freedom internal-model-based control methodology. It introduces a control approach to incorporate the dynamics of the system's nominal model in the control structure. It also rectifies the unwanted effects of the right-half plane zeros. The explicit incorporation of the model enhances the tracking capabilities of the controller in a PV-based VSC. Besides, this article shows that a single-loop of control will suffice to regulate active and reactive power. Validating results are generated via a hardware-in-the-loop system based on a Xilinx Zynq-7000 SoC field-programmable gate array (FPGA). Furthermore, experimental results are conducted for low-power prototyping to examine the satisfactory performance of the proposed control architecture.

Department(s)

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Research Center/Lab(s)

Intelligent Systems Center

Keywords and Phrases

Direct Power Control; Fault Ride-Through; Internal Model Control (IMC); Low Damping (LD); Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT); Non-Minimum Phase (NMP); Phase-Locked Loop; Point Of Common Coupling (PCC); Power System Stability; Reactive Power; Regulators; Right-Half Plane (RHP); Stability Analysis; Synchronization; Transfer Functions; Voltage Control; Voltage-Source Converter (VSC)

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

1949-3029; 1949-3037

Document Type

Article - Journal

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text

Language(s)

English

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© 2020 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), All rights reserved.

Publication Date

16 Dec 2020

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