Design-oriented analysis of resonance damping and harmonic compensation for LCL-filtered voltage source converters

This paper addresses the interaction between harmonic resonant controllers and active damping of LCL resonance in voltage source converters. A virtual series R-C damper in parallel with the filter capacitor is proposed with the capacitor current feedback loop. The phase lag resulting from the digital computation and modulation delays is thus compensated by the virtual capacitor. The frequency region that allows using resonant controllers is then identified with the virtual damper. It reveals that the upper frequency limit of harmonic resonant controllers can be increased above the gain crossover frequency defined by the proportional gain of current controller. This is of particular interest for high-performance active harmonic filtering applications and low-pulse-ratio converters. Case studies in experiments validate the theoretical analysis.