Real-time DC injection measurement technique for transformerless PV systems

DC injection suppression is crucial for the transformerless PV systems. IEEE Std.929-2000 specifies that the PV systems shall not inject the dc current greater than 0.5% of the full rated output current. DC injection measurement is not only useful for evaluating whether a transformerless PV system meets IEEE standards, but also for the effective dc suppression with injecting an equal but opposite dc component via a proper control scheme. In practice, however, it is difficult to extract the very low-level (0.5% Irated) dc currents in the presence of high levels of ac currents in transformerless PV systems. In order to overcome the limitation, this paper presents a real-time dc injection measurement technique. Some major issues such as the basic operating principle, frequency excursion effect mitigation and discrete-domain implementation of the proposed method are discussed. Theoretical analysis and performance evaluation results verify the effectiveness of the proposed dc injection measurement technique.