ABSTRACT:
The paper presents a new approach to positive and
negative sequence current vector control of a grid connected three-phase
three-wire power electronic converter operating under grid voltage imbalance
conditions. The concept utilizes representation of unbalanced converter current
in the new coordinates frame in which the current vector components are
constant. The nonlinear trigonometric transformation of two-dimensional current
vector components from the stationary frame to the new frame is found on-line
depending on the reference current asymmetry. The presented concept of new
coordinates utilization allows implementation of proportional-integral terms as
current regulators without the use of resonant terms and without the use of the
measured current symmetrical sequences decomposition. The paper presents the
theoretical approach, simulation results, as well as laboratory tests results.
KEYWORDS:
1. AC–DC power conversion
2. Current control
3. Clarke’s transformation
4. Park’s
transformation
SOFTWARE: MATLAB/SIMULINK
BLOCK DIAGRAM:
Fig. 1. Scheme of the power circuit of a three-phase power electronic converter operating with unbalanced grid voltage.
EXPECTED SIMULATION RESULTS:
Fig. 2. Simulation results showing the
new trigonometric transformation properties in the case in which the asymmetry
factor is out of the dead-zone.
Fig. 3. Simulation results showing the
new trigonometric transformation properties in the case in which the asymmetry
factor crosses the dead-zone
Fig. 4. Simulation results showing the
reference vector hodograph in the case in which the asymmetry factor crosses
the dead-zone.
Fig. 5. Simulation results presenting
three-phase grid voltage (a), and three-phase unbalanced current for DSFR
control with notch filters (b), DSFR control with positive and negative
sequence decoupling (c), oscillatory terms based current controllers (d), and
proposed current control method (e) during reference step change of the
converter current imbalance.
Fig. 6. Simulation results presenting
operation of the grid power converter with the new transformations application
for the case of grid voltage imbalance compensation and fundamental positive
sequence component sag compensation (0-0.05s – initial state, 0.05-0.3s – no
load operation with imbalance and sag compensation, 0.3-0.5s – imbalance and
sag compensation with simultaneous dc bus feeding from external source by 26kW
of power (inverter operation mode).
CONCLUSION:
The paper presents a new transformation of unbalanced three-phase signals to the oblique non-Cartesian frame in which the obtained signals in the new frame have equal amplitudes and are shifted by despite three-phase signals imbalance. Thus in a new frame the vector is seen as balanced. Transformed next to the rotating frame using Park’s transformation the vector components are constant. The proposed transformation from stationary to new frame and next from to the frame was used in the voltage oriented vector control of a three-phase grid converter.
The new transformation parameters can be relatively simply found based on reference positive and negative sequence current vector components, making it possible to obtain any imbalance of converter current depending on the outer control loops referencing current vector components.
The
method has a limitation in a narrow range of current asymmetries, where the
magnitude of positive sequence vector is close to the magnitude of the negative
sequence vector, therefore a dead-zone is implemented to avoid converter
operation in this narrow range. Simulation and experimental results show that
the method works in a stable manner even when crossing the dead-zone.
Simulation and experimental tests were done with disabled outer control loops
of dc and ac voltage (so with arbitrarily referenced positive and negative
sequence components) and with enabled outer control loops. In both cases the
results are satisfactory.
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