An Improved Active Damping Method Based on Single-Loop Inverter Current Control for LCL Resonance in Grid-Connected Inverters

This paper investigates active damping of LCL filter resonance in grid-connected inverters with only inverter current feedback control, since it only needs to sample one current to realize both current control and inverter protection. The traditional single-loop inverter current control (SLICC) can damp the LCL filter resonance actively. However, if the control delay is considered in digital control, the system stability will depend on the ratio of the LCL resonance frequency f res to the sampling frequency f s , and the valid damping region is only up to f s / 6 . Considering that the design region of the LCL resonance frequency f res is up to f s / 2 , the system can easily become unstable due to the LCL resonance frequency shifting. Thus, this paper proposes an improved active damping method based on SLICC, including the asymmetric regular sampling method and delay compensation method. The improved sampling method minimizes the control delay without introducing a switching ripple, and the delay compensation method further compensates for the delay effect. With a proper parameter design, the upper limit of the valid damping region is extended up to f s / 2 , which can cover all the possible resonance frequencies, and it has inherent robustness against grid-impedance variation. Finally, a few simulations in MATLAB/SIMULINK and experiments based on a 6 kW prototype are performed to verify the theoretical analysis.