Avaliação das Estratégias de Controle e Projeto de Inversores para Conexão de Fontes Fotovoltaicas à Rede CA

Abstract

Today's highly eletricity dependent society together with the scarcity of conventional energy sources and magnitude of environmental problems brought by them, has raised the level of importance of renewable energy sources such as photovoltaic energy. However, it is necessary to develop new techniques of PV panel production and electronic converters required in their use, as well as the dissemination of such technologies in Brazil. This work contributes to the systematic design of an inverter for photovoltaic systems connected to the mains. The key techniques needed to control these systems are described and analyzed within a common base. Furthermore, this paper describes the hardware design of an inverter for connecting PV panels to the AC mains, allowing an overview of all the steps required for the design of a PV inverter. A new methodology for the design of current controllers for current injection into the grid is presented and the advantages of the proportional resonant controller are shown. This work resulted in a functional inverter with commercially viable features, a total current harmonic distortion of 2.03%, maximum power point operation and in conformance to international regulatory standards.