The main objective of this paper is to suppress harmonic and unbalanced reactive power to ensure the reliable operation of grid at the same time of grid-connection. Active filter (AF) has become the conventional technique of harmonic suppression, and the control method applied in the photovoltaic grid-connected system. The paper proposes an active filter integrated quasi Z source inverter applied in photovoltaic systems better, a flexible grid connection method based on direct power control. The main function of the proposed grid-connected photovoltaic generation system is supplying active power to grid, while that of AF device is harmonic suppression and reactive power compensation. The proposed method adopted grid power to control active filter directly, thus the detection of harmonics and reactive current of loads is omitted. The effectiveness of the proposed method proved through .simulation with MATLAB. Keywords: Active filter, Flexible grid-connection, quasi Z source inverter, second order pulsating harmonics
I. INTRODUCTIONRenewable resources are the alternative resources for conventional energy resources and are in great demand nowadays. The traditional resources are reducing across the world rapidly. Solar photo voltaic generating electrical power from the alternative resources. Many research efforts are made to extract maximum power out of the Photo voltaic panel by using different power converters as most of the power generated by the renewable sources are varying. There are different traditional power circuit topological which has many disadvantages. The conventional Voltage Source Inverters and DC/DC converters have certain disadvantages such as double stage conversion, maximum output voltage obtained is less than the dc voltage, complexity in the controller circuits and the inverter components should be over sized to match with the continuous variation of Photo voltaic voltages which can be overcome by the proposed control topology of quasi impedance source inverter. The pv system is connected by implementation of the quasi impedance source inverter in which the output voltage can be controlled by both modulation index and the boost factor independently based on the open loop and closed loop simulation. This advantage makes Photo voltaic generation more efficient. Since the quasi impedance source inverter has the advantage of having no dead time. To operate in one of the mode named shoot through mode either the same leg switches(upper leg and lower leg) are short switches ON so that short circuit occurs whereas in order to avoid the short circuit of the same leg as designed in the form of traditional VSI methods we are forced to make the dead time . The comparative analysis between impedance source and the quasi impedance source inverter were done to find out the best topology for the Photo Voltaic system. A traditional energy storage system usually requires an extra bidirectional dc-dc converter , which increases the system cost, volume, and control complication. Hence, an energy storage...