scholarly journals An Advanced Control Technique for Power Quality Improvement of Grid-Tied Multilevel Inverter

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 505
Author(s):  
Sumaya Jahan ◽  
Shuvra Prokash Biswas ◽  
Md. Kamal Hosain ◽  
Md. Rabiul Islam ◽  
Safa Haq ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power Quality ◽  
Harmonic Distortion ◽  
Multilevel Inverter ◽  
Control Technique ◽  
Solar Pv ◽  
Pv System ◽  
Reference Tracking ◽  
Proportional Integral ◽  
Lead Compensator ◽  
Power Quality Improvement

The use of different control techniques has become very popular for controlling the performance of grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) systems. Although the proportional-integral (PI) control technique is very popular, there are some difficulties such as less stability, slow dynamic response, low reference tracking capability, and lower output power quality in solar PV applications. In this paper, a robust, fast, and dynamic proportional-integral resonance controller with a harmonic and lead compensator (PIR + HC + LC) is proposed to control the current of a 15-level neutral-point-clamped (NPC) multilevel inverter. The proposed controlled is basically a proportional-integral resonance (PIR) controller with the feedback of a harmonic compensator and a lead compensator. The performance of the proposed controller is analyzed in a MATLAB/Simulink environment. The simulation result represents admirable performance in terms of stability, sudden load change response, fault handling capability, reference tracking capability, and total harmonic distortion (THD) than those of the existing controllers. The responses of the inverter and grid outlets under different conditions are also analyzed. The harmonic compensator decreases the lower order harmonics of grid voltage and current, and the lead compensator provides the phase lead. It is expected that the proposed controller is a dynamic aspirant in the grid-connected PV system.

scholarly journals A Modular Multilevel Converter with an Advanced PWM Control Technique for Grid-Tied Photovoltaic System

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 331
Author(s):  
Safa Haq ◽  
Shuvra Prokash Biswas ◽  
Md. Kamal Hosain ◽  
Md. Ashib Rahman ◽  
Md. Rabiul Islam ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power Quality ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Pulse Width Modulation ◽  
Harmonic Distortion ◽  
Photovoltaic System ◽  
Control Technique ◽  
Solar Pv ◽  
Pv System ◽  
Medium Voltage ◽  
Modulation Technique

Due to global warming and shortage of fossil fuels, the grid-connected solar photovoltaic (PV) system has gained significant popularity all over the world. The modular multilevel cascaded (MMC) inverter is the natural choice for step-up transformer and line filter less direct medium voltage grid integration of solar PV systems. However, power quality and loss are the important issues while connecting the PV system to the medium voltage grid through MMC inverter. Modulation technique is the key to maintain output power quality, e.g., total harmonic distortion (THD) and to ensure low switching and conduction losses. In this paper, an advanced modulation technique named “triangle saturated common mode pulse width modulation (TSCMPWM)” control is proposed for a 3-phase 5-level MMC inverter-based grid-tied PV system. Compared to traditional modulation techniques, the proposed TSCMPWM control offers the lowest voltage THD as well as lower inverter power losses. Performance of the proposed modulation technique is evaluated in MATLAB/Simulink environment and tested with a reduced scale prototype test platform. Both simulation and experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed modulation technique.

scholarly journals Power Quality Improvement in WECS using Fuzzy – STATCOM

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (03) ◽  
pp. 90-94
Author(s):  
B Praveen Kumar and V V L Durga Bhavani
Keyword(s):  
Power Quality ◽  
Harmonic Distortion ◽  
Control Technique ◽  
Control Approach ◽  
System A ◽  
Three Phase ◽  
Power Quality Improvement ◽  
Static Compensator ◽  
Custom Power

The major concern in a growing power quality is harmonics distortion which is caused by the non-linear nature of the loads. This problem has drawn much attention from utilities, users and industries. To reduce the harmonic distortion for improving the power quality of the system a custom power devices has been proposed. A static compensator (STATCOM) is implemented at distribution level for overcoming several power quality problems. In this paper, new control technic i.e AI is proposed on shunt compensator to estimates the weight values of load currents. The control approach is based on the convergence of the load currents and property of the input signal. A working prototype of the STATCOM is implemented using three-phase VSC and AI control technique based PWM controller approach is developed in MATLAB/SIMULINK.

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