Controlling Apparatus of a Power Converter of Single-Phase Current For Photovoltaic Generation System

• US 20080278983A1
• Filed: 02/14/2007
• Published: 11/13/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Chang WON National University Business Administration
• Original Assignee: Chang WON National University Business Administration
• Inventors: Park, Min Won
• Granted Patent: US 7,834,485 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 363/95
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/35 with light sensitive cells
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 10/56 Power conversion systems, e.g. maximum power point trackers
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 323/906 Solar cell systems

Abstract

A control apparatus of a single-phase power converter for a photovoltaic power generation system is disclosed, including a POS MPPT controller for calculating a rating current by applying a POS MPPT control method to an output current detected through a current transformer of a single-phase AC filter, a bandpass filter for filtering only signals of a low-frequency band from a load, a single-phase reference current generator for producing a reference current by matching a phase of the current from the POS MPPT controller to a phase from the bandpass filter, a single-phase current subtractor for subtracting an output current of a current transformer from the reference current calculated by the single-phase reference current generator to thereby calculate a difference current between the output current of the current transformer and the reference current, a PI controller for outputting a control signal, corresponding to the difference current from the single-phase current subtractor, to a PWM signal generator, and the PWM signal generator for generating a PWM phase control signal corresponding to the control signal from the PI controller.

Claims

1. A control apparatus of a single-phase power converter for a photovoltaic power generation system, which includes a solar cell, a DC filter, a single-phase DC/AC converter, and a single-phase AC filter and is configured to convert a DC voltage, output from the solar cell, into an AC voltage and supply the AC voltage to a load and a utility, the control apparatus comprises:

a POS MPPT controller for calculating a rating current Irms by applying a POS MPPT control method to an output current, which is detected through a current transformer installed in the single-phase AC filter;

a bandpass filter for filtering only signals of a low-frequency band from the load;

a single-phase reference current generator for producing a reference current Iref by matching a phase of the current output from the POS MPPT controller to a phase output from the bandpass filter;

a single-phase current subtractor for subtracting an output current Io, detected by the current transformer, from the reference current Iref produced from the single-phase reference current generator to thereby calculate a difference current between the output current Io and the reference current Iref;

a PI controller for generating a control signal corresponding to the difference current Iref−

Io, output from the single-phase current subtractor; and

a PWM signal generator for receiving the control signal from the PI controller and generating a PWM phase control signal in response to the control signal, wherein a maximum output point of an AC voltage output from the single-phase DC/AC converter is tracked according to a variation of voltage and current of the solar cell, which are changed every moment, and output in real-time.