Control Loops Passivation Design of Weak-Grid-Tied Grid-Following
Inverters for Maximum Power Transfer Capability Improvement
Abstract
The theoretical maximum power transfer capability of the phase-locked
loop (PLL)-based grid-following inverters can be limited under weak-grid
conditions due to the non passivity of control loops. This article aims
to reveal the passivity violation mechanism and develop passivity
oriented feed-forward control to cancel out the negative effects of
inner current control and PLL on low-frequency passivity. To this end,
the contributions of these control loops and the mutual interactions
among individual control loops to inverter terminal admittance are
identified using the admittance decomposition technique, based on which
the nonpassivity effect of each control loop is canceled out using a
point of common coupling voltage feed-forward loop. The effectiveness of
the presented control loops passivation method is validated by
eigenvalue analysis, simulation studies, and experiments.