Control Design of a Single-Phase DC/AC Inverter for PV Applications

<p>This thesis presents controller designs of a 2 kVA single-phase inverter for photovoltaic (PV) applications. The demand for better controller designs is constantly rising as the renewable energy market continues to rapidly grow. Some background research has been done on solar energy, PV inverter configurations, inverter control design, and hardware component selection. Controllers are designed both for stand-alone and grid-connected modes of operation. For stand-alone inverter control, the outer control loop regulates the filter capacitor voltage. Combining the synchronous frame outer control loop with the capacitor current feedback inner control loop, the system can achieve both zero steady-state error and better step load performance. For grid-tied inverter control, proportional capacitor current feedback is used. This achieves the active damping needed to suppress the LCL filter resonance problem. The outer loop regulates the inverter output current flowing into the grid with a proportional resonant controller and harmonic compensators. With a revised grid synchronization unit, the active power and reactive power can be decoupled and controlled separately through a serial communication based user interface. To validate the designed controllers, a scaled down prototype is constructed and tested with a digital signal processor (DSP) TMS320F28335.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (MSEE)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Year dc:date.available

2016

Author dc:creator

• Liu, Haoyan

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Mantooth, H. Alan

Contributors dc:contributor

• Ang, Simon S.
• McCann, Roy A.

• Applied sciences
• DQ frame control
• Grid-tied inverter
• LCL filter
• PR controller
• Single-phase vsi
• Controls and Control Theory
• Power and Energy

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/1618

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarworks.uark.edu:etd-3157