Direct power control scheme based on disturbance rejection principle for three-phase PWM AC DC converter under different input voltage conditions

Abstract EN

Conventional direct power control (DPC) technique is a simple and efficient control strategy for three-phase PWM rectifier.

However, its performance is deteriorated when the converter is supplied by unbalanced or distorted grid voltages.

This paper describes the design and implementation of a new configuration of DPC based on disturbance rejection principle to achieve near-sinusoidal input current waveforms of the converter under different input voltage conditions.

In the proposed DPC scheme, instantaneous active and reactive powers provided by harmonic component of input currents are directly controlled using a predefined switching table.

In order to achieve full rejection of the effect of any disturbance on the quality of input currents, the reference of both controlled powers is directly given from the outside of the controller and are equal to zero.

Moreover, prior knowledge of disturbance’s nature, calculation of positive and negative sequences of unbalanced input voltages and content harmonic extraction are not required for the proposed DPC.

Compared to the conventional DPC, the proposed one uses a PLL block to extract the fundamental of input currents and defining the position of the grid voltage vector in α-β plane without any passive filters.

Finally, the simulation results have verified the validity of the proposed DPC and have proven an excellent performance under different input voltage conditions.

Full disturbance rejection and good robustness towards supply voltage disturbances are the main advantages of the proposed DPC compared to the conventional one.