Control Strategy of Three-level Active Neutral Point Clamped Grid Connected Inverters in Unbalanced Power Grid

Abstract

Traditional phase-locked loops in three-level active neutral point-clamped inverter grid-connected systems for photovoltaic power generation exhibit a deficiency in the decoupling of positive and negative sequences under unbalanced power grid conditions. To address this issue, this study proposes the implementation of the fourth-order generalized integrator into the phase-locked loop to facilitate positive and negative sequence decoupling. Initially, a 3L-ANPC inverter grid connection system is established. However, under unbalanced grid voltage conditions, the PLL effect of the Decoupled Double Synchronous Reference Frame Phase-Locked Loop is found to be suboptimal, leading to considerable fluctuations and distortions in the output frequency signal. To address these complications, we propose an optimized phase-locked loop structure. In this improved design, the PLL first utilizes the FOGI to filter out multiple harmonics in the grid voltage prior to decoupling the positive and negative sequence voltage. This process effectively mitigates the effect on the PLL, thereby enabling rapid and precise tracking of the grid voltage. Simulation analysis is conducted by using Matlab/Simulink to substantiate the effectiveness of the proposed PLL, demonstrating its ability to reliably lock onto the frequency and phase of the fundamental voltage under conditions of unbalanced power grid voltage.