Three-phase grid-tied photovoltaic system with an adaptive current control scheme in active power filter

Abstract

ABSTRACT In this article, an adaptive normalized least mean fourth (NLMF) control scheme is employed to generate the anti-harmonic currents of photovoltaic (PV) integrated with grid system for harmonic elimination and power factor (PF) correction (PFC). In addition, a fuzzy tuned PID-based adaptive dc voltage regulator is integrated in the proposed scheme to regulate the reference voltage of the dc bus. The proposed FPID-based NLMF control scheme attains the features of power quality (PQ) related issues elimination such as PFC and harmonics elimination with an extraction of photovoltaic (PV) generated maximum power through the grid interfacing converter (VSC) at a unity PF. Moreover, the PV system’s feed-forward (FF) component is included in the control strategy to enrich the aggressive behavior of the system. The NLMF current controller is employed to measure the three-phase calculated currents by extracting the fundamental weight constituents of the load currents for harmonic mitigation in the presence of point of common coupling (PCC). The proposed control topology is developed on MATLAB/SIMULINK software platform under different load and grid transient conditions. A dSPACE based real-time laboratory platform is developed to justify the proposed scheme under different conditions such as steady-state, load dynamic, removed and unbalanced, grid voltage distorted, unbalanced, swell and sag conditions. The presented control scenario’s results are obtained satisfactory and the grid current’s THD are in the IEEE-519 regular limits.