COMPREHENSIVE CONTROL SCHEME FOR AN INVERTER-BASED DISTRIBUTED GENERATION UNIT

In this paper, a complete control scheme is developed for an inverter-based distributedgeneration (IBDG) unit to produce high quality AC voltages in unit terminals. The unit uses athree-phase, four-leg inverter. The control scheme includes a feed-forward current control path andtwo nested loops, the outer loop for regulating the DG output voltage and the inner one forcontrolling the inverter current. Proportional-Resonant (PR) controllers are used in the voltageloop to track a sinusoidal reference voltage and eliminate low-order voltage harmonics. The innercurrent loop is used for over-load protection of the inverter, and improvement of the controlsystem response. The current controller is designed by the state feedback method. The feedforward current control path is used to reduce impacts of load disturbances on the IBDG outputvoltages. Regarding the role of the inverter output filter and controllers in voltage quality, the filterdesign procedure is reviewed, the approach to choosing the controllers parameters is explained,and stability conditions of the system are investigated. The performance of an IBDG that suppliesa local load is studied under unbalanced and nonlinear loading, and sudden changes in the loadamount and voltage amplitude.