Active Damping of a Modified LCL Filter applied to Transformerless Grid-Connected PV Inverter

Julian Cezar Giacomini

Federal University of Santa Maria - UFSM

Julian Cezar Giacomini received the B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Regional University of Northwestern Rio Grande do Sul (UNIJUÍ) in 2012, where he served as a member of the Industrial Automation and Control Research Group (GAIC). He received the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) in 2015. He has worked with the Power Electronics and Control Research Group at UFSM since 2013, where he is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree. His interests are related to Photovoltaic Inverters, Control in Power Electronics and Multilevel Converters.

Abstract

Modified LCL (MLCL) filter can be employed in a transformerless PV grid-connected inverter for leakage current reduction without any modifications in the modulation technique and inverter topology. However, MLCL filter... [ view full abstract ]

Authors

  1. Julian Cezar Giacomini (Federal University of Santa Maria - UFSM)
  2. Leandro Michels (Federal University of Santa Maria - UFSM)
  3. Humberto Pinheiro (Federal University of Santa Maria - UFSM)
  4. Cassiano Rech (Federal University of Santa Maria - UFSM)

Topic Areas

DC-AC Converters , Photovoltaic Applications (on-grid)

Session

OP-4B » Grid Connection II (14:00 - Tuesday, 1st December, Esmeralda)