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I. INTRODUCTION
As more distributed resources (DR), such as solar and wind,
become integrated into the utility grid at the distribution level, a current reference that consists of active and reactive compo
the trend that the DR units actively supply reactive power nents. The proposed synchronization method is advantageous
to the grid has appeared. Having the capability of supplying in numerous ways. Firstly, it is able to reproduce two decou
reactive power, these DRs will help in supporting local grid pled components that are parallel and orthogonal to the grid
voltage and reducing the burden of delivering reactive power voltage. This is in contrast to techniques that only duplicate
from central generation to the local distribution level for the grid voltage so that the output current has the same phase
compensating of inductive load [1]-[4]. as the grid voltage yielding zero reactive current [7]. Secondly,
Although purposeful injection of reactive power or attempt the proposed method is immune to grid voltage distortion so
ing to support grid voltage by a distributed generator is not that the generated current reference remains undistorted. The
currently permitted by the IEEE 1547-2003 grid integration synchronous frame Phase Locked Loops (PLLs) shown in [8]
standard [5], next generation grid codes for DRs are an riO], although not explicitly specified, also has the potential
ticipated to incorporate requirements for ancillary services, to provide sufficient phase information to the controller for
including reactive power compensation to support local grid the reactive current reference generation. However, its imple
voltage [6]. As a result, the ability of single phase grid mentation process can be complicated due to the need for an
interfaced inverters to provide reactive power control will orthogonal component emulator and real-time sine and cosine
facilitate compliance with future grid requirements. operations while performing af3 - dq transforms. The proposed
In a typical two-stage PV inverter configuration shown in grid synchronization method is therefore advantageous for its
Fig. 1, within which a DCIDC converter is used for voltage simplicity, which only utilizes a two by two state matrix to
amplification and maximum power point tracking, the down reproduce filtered parallel and orthogonal components of the
stream DCI AC inverter may readily provide control of the grid voltage. The final reference current is then created through
reactive power flow. In Fig. 1, a full bridge voltage sourced a simple summing and normalization process.
inverter (VSI) with a LCL filter is used as the power circuit In section II, the control scheme of the single phase grid
of the grid tied DCI AC inverter. tied VSI is discussed. This section includes design of a
In this paper, a computationally efficient reactive power sinusoidal pulse width modulation (SPWM) based current
control method is developed for single phase VSIs. A low controller using a proportional resonant (PR) compensator.
complexity grid synchronization method is developed to create Section II also talks about the design of a voltage controller
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IV EXPERIMENT RESULTS
To verify the effectiveness of the control scheme, an ex
perimental prototype was built. The control system is imple
mented on a 32-bits fixed point microcontroller. Voltage and -iy{t)
current signals are sampled using the internal lO-bit analog
to-digital converter inside the microcontroller. The front end
(c) Grid current lags the voltage by 36.80 (PF=O.S, lag
DC/DC converter is emulated using a constant current source. ging)
The system parameters and component values used for the Fig. 9. Steady state operation of the inverter
experimental setup are listed in Table I.
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to create a current reference that consists of active and reactive
components. The reactive component i�1
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the reactive power control conunand which tells the inverter
how much reactive current needs to be injected/absorbed.
This therefore gives the inverter the ability of independently
controlling the reactive power flow. Furthermore, the proposed
grid synchronizer only uses a two by two state matrix to gen
erate the parallel and orthogonal components. This lowers the
implementation complexity and the computational burden on
the digital processor comparing to methods using synchronous
frame PLLs, which require sine and cosine calculations for d (a) DC-link voltage step response
q frame transformation. The drawback of the synchronization
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frequency wo, exposure to large frequency variation would
result in undesirable power factor degradation (refer to Fig. 8).
Although increasing ksync minimizes the effect, the noise �/+ (\ (\ 1/\ \/1\/
suppression ability of the estimator would be compromised. IV �
Another drawback of the grid synchronization method is the
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The experimental results prove the effectiveness of the
(b) Reactive power controlling command i�"1 step
controller by demonstrating the inverter's ability of generating response
pure active power, pure reactive power, and a mix of active Fig. 10. Transient response of the inverter
and reactive power. The transient response demonstrates good
dynamic response of the control system.
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