A New Control Technique for Three-Phase Shunt Hybrid Power Filter

This paper presents a nonlinear control technique for a three-phase shunt hybrid power filter (SHPF) to enhance its dynamic response when it is used to compensate for harmonic currents and reactive power. The dynamic model of the SHPF system is first elaborated in the stationary “abc” reference frame and then transformed into the synchronous orthogonal “dq” reference frame. The “dq” frame model is divided into two separate loops, namely, the two current dynamic inner loops and the dc-voltage dynamic outer loop. Proportional–integral (PI) controllers are utilized to control the SHPF input currents and dc-bus voltage. The currents track closely their references so that the SHPF behaves as a quasi-ideal current source connected in parallel with the load. It provides the reactive power and harmonic currents required by the nonlinear load, thereby achieving sinusoidal supply currents in phase with supply voltages under dynamic and steady-state conditions. The SHPF consists of a small-rating voltage-source inverter (VSI) in series with a fifth-harmonic tuned $LC$ passive filter. The rating of the VSI in the SHPF system is much smaller than that in the conventional shunt active power filter because the passive filter takes care of the major burden of compensation. The effectiveness of the control technique is demonstrated through simulation and experimentation under steady-state and dynamic operating conditions.      

新型三相三线制并联有源滤波器的滑模控制方法

为了提高有源滤波器的谐波补偿效果,设计了一种新型滑模控制器,用于三相三线制并联有源滤波器的参考电流跟踪控制.谐波电流检测方法采用基于瞬时无功功率理论的谐波电流检测方法,能快速、准确的检测出负载电流中的谐波分量.直流侧电压控制方法采用PI控制方法实现.Simulink仿真结果显示,与传统的滞环比较控制方法相比,所设计的新型滑模控制方法能够有效的降低跟踪误差,提高有源滤波器的谐波补偿效果.     

Dual current control scheme for PWM converter under unbalancedinput voltage conditions

Voltage unbalance in a three-phase system causes performance deterioration of PWM power converters by producing 120 Hz voltage ripples in the DC link and by increasing the reactive power. To eliminate the DC link voltage ripple and the DC component of the reactive power, both positive- and negative-sequence currents should be controlled simultaneously, according to the paper by Rioual et al (1996). The authors used two synchronous reference frames: a positive-sequence current regulated by a proportional integral (PI) controller in a positive synchronous reference frame (SRF); and a negative-sequence current regulated by a PI controller in a negative SRF. In the positive SRF, which rotates counterclockwise, the positive sequence appears as DC, while the negative sequence appears as 120 Hz. In contrast, in the negative SRF, which rotates clockwise, the negative sequence appears as DC, while the positive sequence appears as 120 Hz. By deleting 120 Hz components using a notch filter in each SRF, one can measure positive- and negative-sequence currents separately, and use them for constructing two feedback controllers. Since the negative-sequence current is also controlled in its own SRF by a DC command, this approach yields better performance without increasing the control gain. Note that, since the controller is implemented by a software routine in the digital signal professor chip, using two SRFs does not require additional hardware. The authors demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme by using computer simulation and experiments     

Three-phase four-wire shunt active filter control strategies

This paper describes a three-phase four-wire shunt active power filter using a conventional three-leg converter, without the need of power supply at DC bus. Two approaches have been developed to control the active filter. Both control strategies consider harmonics and zero sequence components in the voltage and current simultaneously. The first one provides constant power and the second one sinusoidal current to the source, even under unbalanced voltage conditions. Simulation results from a complete model of shunt active filter are presented to validate and compare the control strategies     

直流微网母线电压纹波集中补偿自寻优策略

为抑制直流微网母线电压二次纹波,文中提出了一种直流有源滤波器集中补偿自寻优策略。在双向DC/DC变换器电压/电流双闭环控制的基础上,加入直流母线电压纹波控制,通过引入带通滤波器消除了传统控制方法中采用低通滤波器提取纹波时所产生的相位滞后问题。采用迭代自寻优方法获取重要控制参数阻抗系数K,实现直流有源滤波器对直流母线电压纹波变化的实时跟踪和集中补偿。在MATLAB/Simulink中搭建了含互联接口变流器、分布式电源、直流负荷、由DC/AC变流器接入的交流负荷以及直流有源滤波器的直流微网模型,建立了相应的实验平台。仿真和实验结果均验证了所提控制策略的有效性。     

三相PWM整流器前馈与滑模变结构控制研究

在两相旋转坐标系下对三相电压型PWM整流器进行建模分析。针对双闭环PI控制策略抑制负载扰动及电网电压波动能力差,以及系统动态响应慢等问题,提出了负载电流前馈策略来提高系统抗负载波动能力。并且电流环采用基于PID趋近率的滑模变结构控制策略来满足前馈控制策略对内环响应速度的要求,并提高系统动态性能以及鲁棒性,PID趋近率可以有效抑制传统变结构的抖振问题。应用Matlab/Simulink软件进行仿真,并以DSP TMS320X2812为核心搭建优化控制器的三相VSR实验平台,进行仿真及实验验证。结果显示本文所提出控制方法可有效抑制负载变化、电网电压波动以及其它干扰所对直流电压稳定性的影响,具有很强的鲁棒性,动态响应速度快且性能稳定。     

A Voltage-sensorless control method to balance the input currents of a three-wire boost rectifier under unbalanced input Voltages condition

This paper proposes a control method that can balance the input currents of the three-phase three-wire boost rectifier under unbalanced input voltage condition. The control objective is to operate the rectifier in the high-power-factor mode under balanced input voltage condition but to give overriding priority to the current balance function in case of unbalance in the input voltage. The control structure has been divided into two major functional blocks. The inner loop current-mode controller implements resistor emulation to achieve high-power-factor operation on each of the two orthogonal axes of the stationary reference frame. The outer control loop performs magnitude scaling and phase-shifting operations on current of one of the axes to make it balanced with the current on the other axis. The coefficients of scaling and shifting functions are determined by two closed-loop proportional-integral (PI) controllers that impose the conditions of input current balance as PI references. The control algorithm is simple and high performing. It does not require input voltage sensing and transformation of the control variables into a rotating reference frame. The simulation results on a MATLAB-SIMULINK platform validate the proposed control strategy. In implementation Texas Instrument's digital signal processor TMS320F240F is used as the digital controller. The control algorithm for high-power-factor operation is tested on a prototype boost rectifier under nominal and unbalanced input voltage conditions.     

Harmonic filtering of high-power 12-pulse rectifier loads with aselective hybrid filter system

Current distortion of 12-pulse rectifier loads is significantly lower compared to six-pulse rectifier loads. However, in passive filtering of the lowest and dominant characteristic 11th and 13th harmonics, the use of 5th and 7th filters is often required in order to prevent possible parallel and series resonance between the passive filter and source impedance which can be excited by source background distortion or by load current residual noncharacteristic harmonics at the 5th and 7th harmonic frequencies. In hybrid filter systems, an active filter (AF) can be added in series with the passive filter in order to isolate the source and load. In most proposed hybrid filter systems, AF control is based on the detection of total current distortion and high-frequency inverters. With a selective AF control system and voltage-controlled inverter, the AF can be controlled to isolate the load at the critical frequencies only while at all other frequencies the passive filter function is preserved so that lower switching frequency and AF rating is required. In this paper, the authors present a selective AF filter control system and simple hybrid filter topology suitable for the compensation of high-power 12-pulse rectifier loads. Harmonic current controllers based on the second-order infinite-impulse response digital resonant filters are used, as they can be considered as simple digital algorithms for more complex double cascaded synchronous-reference-frame-based proportional plus integral controllers. They are centered to the targeted harmonic frequencies by using an adaptive fundamental frequency tracking filter. This approach gives good results, even if the reference waveform (in our case, a load voltage) is highly distorted or unbalanced and no separate phaselocked loop is required. Test results for a laboratory model of this system and stability analysis are presented and the importance of delay-time compensation is discussed     

Three-phase single-stage four-switch PFC buck-boost-type rectifier

This paper proposes a new three-phase single-stage power-factor corrector buck-boost-type rectifier topology. The typical topology uses a bridge configuration with six switches. This new topology only requires four switches, improving the rectifier efficiency as only one reverse-blocking power semiconductor conducts at any time. A vector-based sliding-mode control method for the three-phase input currents is also proposed. This fast and robust technique uses sliding mode to generate /spl alpha//spl beta/ space-vector modulation, which forces the input line currents to track a suitable sinusoidal reference. A near-unity power-factor operation of the rectifier is obtained using a sinusoidal reference in phase with the input source voltages. A proportional-integral controller is adopted to regulate the output voltage of the converter. This external voltage controller modulates the amplitude of the current references. The characteristics of the new rectifier are verified with experimental results.     

基于DSP的三相光伏并网逆变器控制系统设计与实现

三相电压型光伏并网逆变器,直接控制其三相电流较困难.同步旋转坐标下基于PWM技术的PI控制方法动态响应快,且可实现对指令的无静差跟踪,但是d、q两相直流电流之间还存在耦合关系,不利于控制设计,同时还存在电网电压的影响,为了消除这些影响,运用了前馈解耦控制算法,结合空间矢量SVPWM给出了逆变器的电流控制策略.浮点数字信...     

Direct Power Control of Active Filters With Averaged Switching Frequency Regulation

This paper has developed a direct power control (DPC) structure to improve the performance of an active filter. A control algorithm directly uses the instantaneous power terms as control variables to replace the current and voltage variables that are commonly used in proportional-integral (PI) control systems. Compared to the other DPC schemes that have been reported so far, the proposed algorithm is oriented to harmonic current compensation, for which the switching functions are redefined, the bandwidths of the two hysteresis comparators are dynamically adjusted, and consequently, the pulsewidth modulation (PWM) switching frequencies are regulated to eliminate the unnecessary short switching pulses, and the control system can be used directly and effectively for various types of nonlinear load compensation. With the proposed control scheme, full control of the active filter, including the line current and the dc bus voltage, can be realized within an integrated power control loop. The advantages of the proposed control strategy have been verified by simulation and experimental results on a 2-kVA laboratory prototype.      

New Active Compensator Based on IEEE Std. 1459

IEEE Standard 1459-2000 includes new definitions for the measurement of electric power quantities under sinusoidal, non-sinusoidal, balanced or unbalanced conditions. This standard is the new reference for the measurement of the power quantities related with energy flows in electric systems. These new definitions affect directly to the design of the compensating systems used to improve the electric utility quality: only positive-sequence fundamental power must be present in efficient systems and all the other power terms are non-efficient. The reference currents of active compensators had to be adapted to this new definition of the efficient power in order to eliminate the non-efficient terms. This paper proposes the design of a new set of reference currents that provides IEEE standard 1459 compliance for a four-wire three-branch active compensator. Simulation results using a three-dimensional space vector pulse width modulation (3D-3B SVPWM) are included. The loads used are three single-phase rectifiers and three unbalanced resistive loads connected to a three-phase four-wire electric system. The proposed output current control uses a current regulator and a Space Vector modulator (SVPWM). The three-phase inverter is modeled using three half-bridges and a split DC bus. The proposed three-dimensional SVPWM allow to obtain more advantage of the DC bus and allow working with a constant switching frequency.     

大容量并联型有源电力滤波器的软启动技术

分析大容量并联型有源电力滤波器的系统模型和工作特点的基础上,提出了大容量并联型有源电力滤波器软启动的方法。电流环软启动通过输出电流指令递增实现,电压环软启动则比较了直流侧电压指令逐步升高法、恒定电流充电法、变PI参数调节法三种策略。实验结果表明并联型有源电力滤波器投入电网时直流侧电压上升平稳无超调,输出电流也无冲击现象,证明此软启动方法是有效的。     

Integrated power factor compensator without load current measurement

A simple strategy and low cost control for the switching mode rectifier to work simultaneously as a power factor corrector and an active power filter (APF) to reduce current harmonics drawn from the nonlinear load are analysed and presented in this paper. The principal component of the control circuit is an Intel 80196MC microcontroller that performs the dc bus voltage and line current control. The sliding mode control is used in the current loop to achieve fast line current dynamics. The source currents only are measured in the proposed control scheme instead of both the source and load currents needed in the conventional control approach. A simple proportional-integral control is adopted in the voltage loop to achieve slow dc bus dynamics. The proposed control strategy can achieve a high power factor and low current harmonics. No dedicated APF is needed in the proposed control strategy. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the integrated power factor compensator for elimination of reactive power and current harmonics, software simulation and hardware tests are performed.     

Shunt active power filter synthesizing resistive loads

The paper discusses the use of a shunt active power filter to compensate for the line current distortion and to improve the power factor. The advantages of the resistive load synthesis over the sinusoidal current synthesis when the filter is used in a system where the voltage is not perfectly sinusoidal are presented. The control circuit is based on analogic multipliers, and the currents follow the same waveforms of the respective line voltages. Experimental results of connecting a three-phase active power filter to a nonsinusoidal grid are presented     

A Recursive Park Transformation to Improve the Performance of Synchronous Reference Frame Controllers in Shunt Active Power Filters

Load harmonic currents and load unbalances reduce power quality (PQ) supplied by electrical networks. Shunt active power filters (SAPFs) are a well-known solution that can be employed to enhance electrical PQ by injecting a compensation current at the point of common coupling (PCC) of the SAPF, the load, and the electrical grid. Hence, SAPF controllers must determine the instantaneous values of the compensation reference current, including nondesirable components of the load current. A family of SAPF controllers, which evaluates the compensation reference current using synchronous rotating frames (SRFs), employs a structure based on Park transformations: direct transform, low-pass filtering (LPF), and inverse transform. The cutoff frequency and the filter order of the LPF stage must be designed properly in order to obtain an accurate reference current and a fast dynamic response of these SAPF controllers. This paper proposes a recursive implementation of the direct Park transformation that avoids the filtering stage and allows accurate SRF controllers to be designed. Moreover, the proposed implementation is not dependent on PCC conditions. The proposed implementation is evaluated using a three-phase, three-wire SAPF and compared with LPF-based controllers by simulation and experiment.      

Synchronization of active power filter current reference to thenetwork

This paper presents an improved method of current reference determination for a parallel active power filter. To insure sinusoidal line currents, thus reducing reactive power, an integrative method of reference calculation is applied. As a result, satisfactory response of line current to the load change is achieved. One of the major problems, the synchronization to the net voltage, is also considered. Classical solution is based on zero-cross detection of line voltage. Since this approach is very sensitive to the voltage distortions, a new method is suggested, relying on voltage fundamental harmonic calculation. These ideas were tested on a three-phase active power filter, controlled by 32-bit microcontroller     

Open loop and closed loop spectral frequency active filtering

This paper proposes two frequency based methods for parallel active filtering of current harmonics in utility grids. Active filter (AF) reference prediction and AF current control are the two key-points to obtain high performances. This paper deals with the AF reference prediction. The two proposed methods are based on the Fourier series and its implementation on DSP. They belong to two prediction structures: (1) the open-loop structure which predicts the reference currents from the load currents; and (2) the closed-loop structure which predicts the reference currents from the grid currents. Fourier series based methods are very flexible and have several interesting properties. These two methods have been successfully implemented and tested. The latter method cancels permanent errors and results in better performances. Both methods are very flexible     

电容中点式有源电力滤波器数学模型及电流复合控制策略

三相四线并联型有源电力滤波器通常可用来补偿非线性负载所引起的谐波和无功电流,以及负载不平衡引起的负序或零序电流。本文描述了电容中点型三相四线有源电力滤波器在abc及dq0坐标系下的数学摸型,并由此给出了dq0同步旋转坐标系下的一种系统控制策略。由于有源电力滤波器指令为快速变化的交流谐波信号,传统的PI控制由于带宽有限,稳态精度较差。因此,提出了基于PI控制和重复控制并联的电流复合控制策略,利用重复控制对于周期扰动信号无差跟踪的特点来提高稳态精度,同时,PI控制又能保证良好的动态性能。仿真和实验结果验证该控制策略的可行性和有效性。     

Single-stage three-phase buck-boost type AC-DC converter with highpower factor

A new control process for single-stage three-phase buck-boost type AC-DC power converters with high power factor, sinusoidal input currents and adjustable output voltage is proposed. This converter allows variable power factor operation, but this work focus on achieving unity power factor. The proposed control method includes a fast and robust input current controller based on a vectorial sliding mode approach. The active nonlinear control strategy applied to this power converter, allows high quality input currents. Given the comparatively slow dynamics of the DC output voltage, a proportional integral (PI) controller is adopted to regulate the converter output voltage. The voltage controller modulates the amplitudes of the current references, which are sinusoidal and synchronous with the input source voltages. Experimental results from a laboratory prototype show the high power factor and the low harmonic distortion characteristics of the circuit