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Tuesday 4 July 2017

Deadbeat Weighted Average CurrentControl with Corrective Feed-forward Compensation for Microgrid Converters with Non-Standard LCL Filter


ABSTRACT

 Microgrid converters are required to have the capability of both grid-tied mode and islanding mode operation. For this dual-mode operation, large shunt capacitors are often used in the interfacing converter output LCL filter, as it can help to stabilize supply voltage and to reduce switching ripple pollutions to sensitive loads during autonomous islanding operation. At the same time, this modification causes a few challenges, including the low frequency harmonic distortions, the steady-state tracking errors and the slow dynamic response, to the line current regulation during grid-tied operation. To overcome these drawbacks, a modified weighted average current controller is developed. First, to realize a fast line current response, a deadbeat control of weighted average current is developed based on a reduced-order virtual filter plant. Second, a grid voltage feed-forward term is added to the weighted average current reference to mitigate the steady-state line current tracking errors. Note that this compensation term is directly added to the current reference, thus, it is very well decoupled from the closed-loop current regulator. In addition, it can be seen that the low-order line current harmonics caused by grid voltage distortion is inherently compensated by this proposed corrective feed-forward control.
KEYWORDS:
1.      Virtual filter
2.      Deadbeat control
3.      Weighted average current control
4.      Active damping
5.      LCL filter
6.      Microgrid.

SOFTWARE: MATLAB/SIMULINK

CIRCUIT DIAGRAMS:



Fig. 1. Diagram of a grid-tied converter controlled by conventional weighted average current feedback.


Fig. 2. Diagram of the proposed control deadbeat scheme with weighted average current feedback and line current tracking error compensation.


EXPECTED SIMULATION RESULTS:



Fig.3. Performance of the system using the proposed deadbeat control method (compensation term is activated in 0.5sec). (from top to bottom: (1) grid voltage Vgrid; (2) line current I2 ; (3) output current I1 ; (4) current tracking errors ( Iref-I2).)


Fig. 4. Performance of the system using the proposed deadbeat control method and the method in [14]. (from top to bottom: (1) grid voltageVgrid ; (2) line current I2; (3) output current I1 ; (4) current tracking errors ( ).)




Fig. 5. Performance of the system using the proposed method, operating in a distorted grid with grid impedance variation



Fig. 6. Performance of the system using the proposed deadbeat control method with feed-forward control. Grid frequency changes from 50Hz to 50.15Hz at 0.2sec. (from top to bottom: (1) Grid voltage Vgrid; (2) line current I2 ; (3) output current I1; (4) weighted average current I12 .)



Fig. 7. Performance of the system using the proposed deadbeat control method but without feed-forward control. Grid frequency changes from 50Hz to 50.15Hz at 0.2sec. (from top to bottom: (1) Grid voltage Vgrid ; (2) line current I2; (3) output current I1; (4) weighted average current I12 .)



Fig. 8. Performance of the system using the PI control for weighted average current regulation, with feed-forward control. Grid frequency changes from 50Hz to 50.15Hz at 0.2sec. (from top to bottom: (1) Grid voltage Vgrid ; (2) line current I2; (3) output current I1; (4) weighted average current I12.)


CONCLUSION
An enhanced current controller is proposed in this paper. The research work of this paper is summarized here as:
1) In order to realize rapid control of converter current, the deadbeat control is applied to regulate the weighted average current based on a virtual filter plant.
2) The feed-forward compensator is developed to mitigate the steady-state fundamental current tracking errors caused by conventional weighted average current control.
3) The frequency-selective capacitor leg current estimation is proposed and the corresponding compensation term can be used to increase the robustness of the converter against grid harmonic distortions. The design and implementation of this compensator are highly decoupled from the closed-loop deadbeat current regulator. Thus, both the current regulator and the compensator can be independently designed.

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