Title :
Can the output impedance of an inverter be designed capacitive?
Author :
Zhong, Qing-Chang ; Zeng, Yu
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Aeronaut. & Automotive Eng., Loughborough Univ., Loughborough, UK
Abstract :
In this paper, it is shown that the output impedance of an inverter can be designed to be capacitive via the feedback of the filter inductor current through an integrator. Such inverters are called C-inverters (inverters with inductive and resistive output impedances are called L-inverters and R-inverters, respectively). Moreover, a recently-proposed robust droop controller is further developed and applied to inverters with capacitive output impedances to achieve accurate sharing of real power and reactive power and to maintain the output voltage within the desired range. Simulation results are provided to demonstrate the feasibility and the performance. Under the same conditions, simulation results show that an inverter achieves lower total harmonic distortion (THD) when it is designed to have a capacitive output impedance than when it is designed to have a resistive or inductive output impedance.
Keywords :
electric impedance; harmonic distortion; invertors; reactive power; robust control; C-inverters; THD; capacitive inverter; capacitive output impedances; filter inductor current feedback; inverter output impedance; reactive power sharing; robust droop controller; total harmonic distortion; Impedance; Inductors; Inverters; Reactive power; Robustness; Voltage control; Droop control; inverters with capacitive output impedances (C-inverters); inverters with inductive output impedances (L-inverters); inverters with resistive output impedances (R-inverters); parallel operation of inverters; proportional load sharing;
Conference_Titel :
IECON 2011 - 37th Annual Conference on IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
Conference_Location :
Melbourne, VIC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-969-0
DOI :
10.1109/IECON.2011.6119483