Modified extended complex Kalman filter for DC offset and distortion rejection in grid-tie transformerless converters

El-Nagar, Mohammed and Ahmed, Khaled and Hamdan, Eman and Abdel-Khalik, Ayman S. and Hamad, Mostafa S. and Ahmed, Shehab (2023) Modified extended complex Kalman filter for DC offset and distortion rejection in grid-tie transformerless converters. Applied Sciences, 13 (15). 9023. ISSN 2076-3417 (https://doi.org/10.3390/app13159023)

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Abstract

Proper operation of the grid-tie transformerless converters under unbalanced and distorted conditions entails a precise detection of the frequency and fundamental component of the grid voltage. One of the main problems that could arise during the estimation of grid parameters is the existence of a DC offset generated from measurement and A/D conversion. This undesirable induced DC offset could appear as a part of the reference sinusoidal current of grid-tie converters. Although literature has proposed the use of an extended complex Kalman filter (ECKF) for the estimation of positive and negative sequence voltage components as a promising competitor to phase locked loops, mitigating the effect of possible DC offsets when a Kalman filter is employed remains scarce. This paper proposes a new extended complex Kalman filter to improve the filter stability for estimating the frequency and the fundamental positive and negative symmetrical components of the grid voltages, where DC offset, scaling error, and noise can successfully be rejected. The theoretical findings are experimentally validated.

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