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LCL resonant current depression control strategy against pulse width modulated harmonic voltage under low switching frequency

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The LCL filter is widely used in grid connected converters for good harmonic mitigation performance. With pulse width modulation strategy, converter terminal voltage contains various sideband harmonic components together with expected components corresponding to the modulation wave, especially under a low switching frequency. Considerable resonant current can be generated if the undesired sideband harmonic voltage is located around the LCL resonant frequency. With the background of a medium voltage three-level wind power converter, where the switching frequency is as low as 1.5 kHz, a resonant current depression strategy is proposed against undesired sideband harmonic voltage under low switching frequency. Additional compensators are adopted in the converter current loop. Depending on the system mathematical model, two solutions, a Butterworth low pass filter and a notch filter, based on phase compensation and amplitude compensation, are proposed in this paper. It is shown that the Butterworth low pass filter exhibits better resonant current depression performance, while the notch filter performance is better in terms of system stability. Simulation and experimental results validated the proposed control method.

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    Zhijun Ma, Linyuan Zhou, Jinjun Liu & Sizhan Zhou

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Ma, Z., Zhou, L., Liu, J. et al. LCL resonant current depression control strategy against pulse width modulated harmonic voltage under low switching frequency. J. Power Electron. 21, 416–426 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43236-020-00190-9

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