Advanced Control Strategy to Compensate Power Sharing Error and DC Circulating Current in Parallel Single-Phase Inverters

TL;DR

This paper introduces an adaptive control method for parallel single-phase inverters that effectively eliminates power sharing errors and circulating currents without additional hardware, enhancing microgrid stability.

Contribution

It presents a novel adaptive virtual impedance control scheme that compensates for line impedance mismatches and measurement errors in islanded microgrids.

Findings

Effective reduction of power sharing error

Suppression of DC circulating current

Validated through simulation and experiments

Abstract

This paper proposes an advanced control strategy to eliminate both current sharing error and DC circulating current caused by line impedance mismatched and measurement errors in islanded AC microgrid system. The proposed adaptive virtual impedance scheme is developed with the aid of a low bandwidth communication and a simple PI compensator to adaptively adjust the virtual impedance value so that active and reactive power will be shared equally among inverters. Meanwhile, the DC offset in output voltage measurement is detected by using the voltage ripple information of DC link voltage of inverter. The proposed control strategy can be implemented directly without any pre-knowledge of the feeder impedances. The proposed compensation scheme is simple and easy to implement, and it also does not require extra hardware circuit or sensors. The effectiveness of the proposed solution is verified by simulation and experimental results of 6 kVA microgrid system.