Design and Control of Medium-Voltage Multilevel Converter for Direct Grid Integration of Photovoltaic System
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Design and Control of Medium-Voltage Multilevel Converter for Direct Grid Integration of Photovoltaic System Jyoti Kulkarni1
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Narendra Kumar1 • Bhim Singh2
Received: 13 February 2020 / Accepted: 21 October 2020 The Institution of Engineers (India) 2020
Abstract This paper deals with the design and control of a medium voltage cascaded H-bridge (CHB) multilevel converter for the direct grid integration of a large photovoltaic (PV) system. It presents the design considerations for selecting an optimum number of levels in the multilevel converter, which are to be both efficient and economical. This system is designed for medium voltage, 11 kV, and hence it can be directly interfaced with the grid without a step-up transformer. It contributes large cost savings in the installation, operation and maintenance of the large solar plant. With the increased number of levels, the converter output voltage waveform is a good approximation to the sine waveform. Therefore, the total harmonic distortions (THDs) of the output AC converter voltage and the grid current are reduced, which significantly improves the power quality of the output voltage waveform reducing the size and hence the cost of the filter. The effect of an increased number of levels on THDs is also studied. The control employed is a decoupled control with the synchronous reference frame—phase-locked loop (SRF-PLL), and a 19-level cascaded converter is operating at the low switching frequency. The separate improved perturb and observation (P&O) maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithm is used for tracking the maximum power from each array of the multistring solar photovoltaic (SPV) system. Both steady-state and dynamic performances of the system are simulated in MATLAB/ Simulink environment & Jyoti Kulkarni [email protected] 1
Department of Electrical Engineering, Delhi Technological University, Main Bawana Road, Delhi 110042, India
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Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India
and validated in accordance with the IEEE-519 standard. A substantial reduction in THDs of the output AC converter voltage and the grid current, with increased number of levels, is observed in this system. Keywords CHB THD Solar PV Generation MPPT Improved P&O Phase-Shifted PWM Power Quality PLL and SRF
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