LCL‐filter resonance suppression in grid‐connected inverter based on strictly real positive plant strategy

Abstract

AbstractResonance is one of the most significant challenges in a voltage source inverter interfaced with the grid through an LCL filter. The capacitor current (CC) damping control methodology is considered due to its high‐quality of grid injected current feature. It is widely accepted that the proportional CC feedback compensation damping method becomes ineffective at critical resonance frequency due to control loop delays and may result in an unstable system under grid impedance or filter parameters variations. A suitable differential compensator placed in the CC feedback path can address this issue with a trade‐off between robustness and noise rejection capability. This paper offers a different design method called parallel feedforward compensation (PFC) method, which builds an almost strictly real positive (ASRP) plant and realized damping with enhanced stability features. In the proposed alternative, a compensator consisting of a damping gain and a sampled delay is placed across the filter plant and filter CC feedback loop and the joint output of this augmented plant is then transmitted back at the reference point on the input side of the inverter to attenuate the undesirable resonance peak. The control response and stability performance analysis show that the suggested methodology offers a wide damping region, high robustness, and improved control performance. Simulation and experimental results are presented to confirm the theoretical findings.