Photovoltaic Flyback Microinverter With Tertiary Winding Current Sensing

This paper presents a new low cost, non-invasive, and isolated current sensing technique for the grid-tied photovoltaic (PV) flyback microinverter. This is accomplished by using the flyback transformer itself as a current sensor, achieved by introducing a tertiary winding to the flyback transformer....

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Published in:IEEE transactions on power electronics 2019-08, Vol.34 (8), p.7588-7602
Main Authors: Za'im, Radin, Jamaludin, Jafferi, Rahim, Nasrudin Abd
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
AC-module
continuous conduction mode (CCM)
current sensing
Detection
Electronics
flyback inverter
integrator
Inverters
Magnetic circuits
Magnetic cores
Magnetic hysteresis
Maximum power tracking
microinverter
Open circuit voltage
photovoltaic (PV)
Photovoltaic cells
Power efficiency
Power factor
Sensors
Solar cells
tertiary winding
Transformers
Voltage measurement
Winding
Windings
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Summary:This paper presents a new low cost, non-invasive, and isolated current sensing technique for the grid-tied photovoltaic (PV) flyback microinverter. This is accomplished by using the flyback transformer itself as a current sensor, achieved by introducing a tertiary winding to the flyback transformer. The mathematical integration of the tertiary winding's open circuit voltage through a ground-clamped-integrator results in the sensing of the magnetizing current. Since the magnetizing current is a combination of both primary and secondary current, control of both grid current and maximum power point tracking (MPPT) is implemented by sensing only the magnetizing current. This allows the PV, primary, secondary, and the grid current loops to be free of any invasive current sensors. Moreover, controlling the magnetizing current provides an alternative solution to an inherent problem with continuous conduction mode (CCM), the control complexity. Linear ramping and de-ramping of the magnetizing current allows for a set-reset hysteresis control to be implemented, resulting in CCM control simplicity that is akin to the boundary and discontinuous conduction mode. A grid-tied microinverter prototype is presented for verification, achieving the following experimental result: 1.9% grid current THD, 0.9988 power factor, above 99% static MPPT efficiency and dynamic efficiency of 98.50%.
ISSN:0885-8993
1941-0107
DOI:10.1109/TPEL.2018.2881283