Mitigation Of Current Distortion In A Three-Phase Microinverter With Phase Skipping Using A Synchronous Sampling Dc-Link Voltage Control

Keywords

DC bus; dc-link capacitor optimization; dc-link voltage control; film capacitors; minimizing dc-link capacitance; three-phase microinverters

Abstract

To improve light load efficiency, a three-phase photovoltaic (PV)-based microinverter may operate in single-phase, two-phase or three-phase mode depending on the available input power. Therefore, its dc-link capacitor may be subjected to large peak-to-peak voltage ripple when operating in phase skipping mode. This paper determines the minimum value of the dc-link capacitor by allowing the maximum acceptable voltage ripple on the dc link. This allows for the use of film capacitors instead of electrolytic capacitors in order to improve the microinverter reliability. Unfortunately, higher dc-link voltage ripple introduces harmonic distortion on the inverter output current waveform if it is not compensated for by the dc-link voltage controller. This paper proposes a simple synchronous control method to regulate the dc-link voltage with the presence of large voltage ripple. The dc-link voltage controller is synchronized with the phase-locked loop and samples the average value of dc-link voltage without introducing unwanted harmonics into the voltage sense path. Experimental results were obtained from a 300-W three-phase half-bridge microinverter prototype to verify the proposed dc-link voltage control performance. Inverter output current total harmonic distortion of 1.6% was achieved even though the dc-link peak-to-peak voltage ripple reached as high as 87 V with 219-V split dc-link voltage. Dynamic response is fast enough to easily track the most extreme ramp change in input PV power.

Publication Date

5-1-2018

Publication Title

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volume

65

Issue

5

Number of Pages

3910-3920

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1109/TIE.2017.2760864

Socpus ID

85031800832 (Scopus)

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https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85031800832

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