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Control of three-level four-leg flying capacitor converter with active filtering function for RES


Abstract:

This paper presents operation of the four-leg three-level flying capacitor converter with active filtering function interfacing renewable energy source with the grid. Suc...Show More

Abstract:

This paper presents operation of the four-leg three-level flying capacitor converter with active filtering function interfacing renewable energy source with the grid. Such solution in contrast to three-leg converter gives possibility to eliminate dy transformer mandatory for proper stand-alone mode of operation. The four-leg converter with proposed control method enables work at different electrical grid disturbances by switching all legs separately to stand-alone or grid connected mode, what makes possible to treat each leg as independent single-phase converter. The described control method is modification of well-known voltage oriented control (VOC) based on the proportional multiresonant controllers. Moreover active filtering function added to control reduce total harmonic distortion of grid current to acceptable level. Simulation study presents good performance and verified validity of the proposed solution. In this paper all possible operation modes are discussed and shown.
Date of Conference: 27-30 March 2013
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 30 May 2013
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Conference Location: Monte Carlo, Monaco
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I. Introduction

The paper presents control of four-leg three-level flying capacitor converter with active filtering function (AFF) used as an interface between renewable energy source (RES) (e.g. small wind turbine or photovoltaic panel) with four wire electrical grid. The most common solution is to use the three-phase three-leg converter connected to the four-wire grid by dy transformer [1], (Fig. 1), what gives possibility to fed asymmetrical load in stand-alone operation mode. Unfortunately, the mentioned dy transformer is quite large and heavy, increases costs significantly and causes additional losses. This transformer can be eliminated by application of four-leg converter (Fig. 2) [2], [3]. Thus, it gives possibility to fed asymmetrical load in stand-alone mode of operation with precise control of neutral current, as well as it can be treated as three independent single-phase converters. Additional advantages can be achieved when three-level topology is used (e.g. lower voltage on single switch, higher voltage on converter, lower total harmonic distortion, reduction of passive components) [4]. The flying capacitor (FCC) topology is most suitable in four-leg applications, where three-phase converter should be treated as three independent single-phase converters. RES connected to the grid by three-phase three-leg converter with dy transformer RES connected to the grid by three-phase four-leg converter

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