Improved harmonic suppression efficiency of single-phase APFs in distorted distribution systems

In this study, a control method is proposed to improve the harmonic suppression efficiency of the single-phase active power filter in a distorted power system to suppress current harmonics and reactive power. The proposed method uses the self-tuning filter (STF) algorithm to process single-phase grid voltage in order to provide a uniform reference grid current, which increases the efficiency of the system. The results of the simulation study are presented to verify the effectiveness of the proposed control technique in this study.     

一种新型混合型有源电力滤波器的研究

提出了一种单相并联混合型有源电力滤波器的电路结构.该电路由有源滤波器与基波串联谐振支路并联再与无源滤波电路串联构成,用于抑制非线性整流负载产生的谐波电流流入电源侧.在该电路中,无源滤波器分担大部分抑制谐波和无功补偿的任务,减少了有源滤波器的容量;有源电力滤波器用于改善无源滤波器的滤波效果,抑制它与系统阻抗可能发生的谐振.实验结果表明,该混合型有源滤波器充分发挥了无源滤波器和有源滤波器各自优点,改善了无源滤波器的滤波性能,同时使有源滤波器不再承受基波电压,最大限度地减少了有源滤波器的容量,从而使有源电力滤波器可应用于大功率场合.     

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     

基于DSP的UPF谐波电流检测系统误差研究

从谐波电流检测原理、交流采样方法和硬件实现方案等方面,研究了基于DSP的UPF谐波电流检测系统的误差,分析了各项主要误差的产生原因及量级大小,并提出了相应的减小或修正误差的改进方法,以提高谐波电流的检测精度.这些方法已在基于DSP的并联型有源电力滤波器实验装置上得以应用.结论亦可为它类有源电力滤波器的设计提供参考.     

A Novel Three-Phase Hybrid Active Power Filter With a Series Resonance Circuit Tuned at the Fundamental Frequency

In this paper, a novel three-phase hybrid active power filter (HAPF) with a series resonance circuit tuned at the fundamental frequency is proposed for simultaneously suppressing harmonic currents and compensating high-capacity reactive power in high- or medium-voltage power systems. To reduce its rated capacity, the active power filter is shunted to the series resonance circuit by a matching transformer and, thus, greatly reduces its current requirements as well as voltage ratings of semiconductor switching devices. The passive power filters are used to compensate the reactive power with a constant capacity. The validity and effectiveness of this novel HAPF system have been verified by simulation and industrial application results.      

Finite control set predictive control of shunt hybrid power filter

This paper proposes a finite control set predictive control (FCS-PC) scheme for the shunt hybrid power filter (SHPF) to reduce the power loss while maintaining satisfactory power quality at the utility’s grid terminals. By means of the instantaneous power theory, the controller for the proposed method can generate the reference voltage for the SHPF voltage source inverter (VSI) for the future sampling time. Therefore, during a sampling time, the vector of the reference voltage is compared with the finite number of voltage vectors existent in the VSI to select the vector that best fits the cost function of the controller. The proposed method, compared with the conventional pulse width modulation (PWM) carrier method, has the capability of suppressing similarly the harmonic currents at grid terminals and controlling VSI DC-link voltage while maintaining low switching frequencies in the devices. This method shows simplicity in digital implementation because it does not need a PWM block to obtain the VSI gating signals. In addition, a comparison of the proposed FCS-PC method with the conventional carrier-based PWM method is presented and discussed. Parameter errors in the controller are studied and their effects on system performance are explained. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated with simulation and experimental results during steady-state operation and transient response of the system.     

三相整流桥直流侧和交流侧并联型有源电力滤波器比较研究

三相直流侧和交流侧有源电力滤波器均可用于三相不可控整流桥的谐波治理。从谐波补偿效果、有源滤波器的补偿容量、开关应力三个方面对二者进行了分析和对比。分析结果表明,由于直流侧有源电力滤波器并联在整流桥的直流侧,在换相处的负载电流变化率比交流侧小得多,因此直流侧有源电力滤波器的补偿性能优于交流侧有源电力滤波器。同时由于直流侧有源电力滤波器工作在电压电流两个象限,因此其补偿容量和开关应力远小于交流侧有源电力滤波器。     

Shunt active filter for reactive power compensation

A simple control technique for three-phase shunt active filters without computation of the reactive current component is presented. A current controller with fast dynamics for an active filter is described. Reactive current is directly controlled without the need for sensing and computing the reactive component of the load current, thus simplifying the control system. Current compensation is done in the time domain, allowing a fast time response. The dc voltage control loop keeps the voltage across the dc capacitor constant. High power factor control by an active filter is described. All control functions are implemented in software using a singlechip microcontroller, thus simplifying the control circuit. Any current-controlled synchronous rectifier can be used as a shunt active filter through only the simple modification of the software and the addition of current sensors. It is shown through experimental results that the proposed controller gives good performance for the shunt active filter.     

A novel shunt hybrid active power filter based on magnetic flux compensation

In this article, the principle of a novel shunt hybrid active power filter (APF) based on magnetic flux compensation is proposed. The parallel transformer can exhibit nearly zero impedance to harmonic current whereas the zero magnetic flux condition is satisfied for harmonics, which leads harmonic current to flow into the transformer branch. Meanwhile, the transformer can exhibit continuously adjustable impedance to the fundamental current based on fundamental magnetic flux compensation, which works together with the passive power filter to compensate for reactive power. A mathematical model is established for system stability analysis and steady state estimation. The experimental results verify that the performance of the proposed APF is satisfactory in harmonic suppression as well as reactive power compensation.     

谐波补偿技术在雷达电源系统中的应用

开关电源在雷达电源系统中的广泛应用,使得电网中的电流谐波污染越来越严重.文中通过对雷达电源系统产生的电流谐波的危害分析,提出了采用谐波补偿技术抑制谐波电流的方法.介绍了无源和并联有源谐波滤波器的工作原理及特点,并给出了不同的谐波滤波器在雷达电源系统中的应用测试结果.实测结果表明,谐波滤波器对雷达电源系统产生的谐波电流都有明显的抑制作用.     

有源电力滤波器的谐波检测方法研究

针对基于FFT的谐波检测和ip-iq法的不足，详细分析并实现了有源滤波器基于旋转坐标系下进行坐标变换的谐波检测方法。该方法在电网电压存在不对称情况下均能很好地检测和补偿电网中的谐波电流和无功电流，根据需要，还可以检测和补偿任意次谐波电流。理论分析和实验结果验证所提出的控制方法的有效性，基于旋转坐标系下进行坐标变换的谐波检测方法的有源电力滤波器具有良好的工作性能。     

Control and performance of a fully-digital-controlled shunt activefilter for installation on a power distribution system

This paper presents a fully-digital-controlled shunt active filter for harmonic termination of a power distribution system. The main purpose of the active filter based on voltage detection is not to compensate for current harmonics but to damp out harmonic propagation caused by line inductors and shunt capacitors for power factor correction. However, time and phase delays inherent in digital controllers might lead to unsatisfactory harmonic-damping performance although digital controllers are preferable to analog controllers. This paper deals with the design and implementation of a digital controller for a shunt active filter based on voltage detection. Experimental results obtained from a laboratory system developed in this paper verify the viability and effectiveness of the fully-digital-controlled active filter     

An instantaneous active and reactive current component method foractive filters

A shunt active filter based on the instantaneous active and reactive current component i_d-i_q method is proposed. This new control method aims to compensate harmonics and first harmonic unbalance. To evaluate its relative performance, it is compared with the instantaneous active and reactive power p-q method under various mains voltage conditions and for different harmonic injection high-pass filters. Both methods are completely frequency-independent, however under distorted mains voltages the proposed method presents a better harmonic compensation performance. The system synthesis and implementation are performed. Simulation and experimental results are presented     

A Single-Phase DG Generation Unit With Shunt Active Power Filter Capability by Adaptive Neural Filtering

This paper deals with a single-phase distributed generation (DG) system with active power filtering (APF) capability, devised for utility current harmonic compensation. The idea is to integrate the DG unit functions with shunt APF capabilities, because the DG is connected in parallel to the grid. With the proposed approach, control of the DG unit is performed by injecting into the grid a current with the same phase and frequency of the grid voltage and with an amplitude depending on the power available from renewable sources. On the other hand, load harmonic current compensation is performed by injecting into the alternating current system harmonic currents like those of the load but with an opposite phase, thus keeping the line current almost sinusoidal. Both detection of the grid voltage fundamental and computation of the load harmonic compensation current have been performed by two neural adaptive filters with the same structure, one in a configuration ldquonotchrdquo and the other in the complementary configuration ldquoband.rdquo The ldquonotchrdquo filter has been used to compute the compensation current by eliminating only the contribution of the fundamental of the load current, whereas the ldquobandrdquo configuration is able to extract the fundamental of the coupling point voltage. Furthermore, because the active power generation and the APF features require current control of components at different frequencies, respectively, a multiresonant current controller has been adopted. The methodology has been tested successfully both in numerical simulation and experimentally on a suitably devised test setup. The stability analysis of the proposed control approach has been performed in the discrete domain.     

混合滤波系统中无源电力滤波器的优化设计

混合型有源滤波器能否按其工作原理实现预期的谐波抑制效果,在很大程度上还有赖于无源滤波器的优化设计。文章首先介绍了由小容量有源滤波器和无源滤波器串联构成的混合电力滤波系统,继而建立了其无源部分的优化模型,采用改进的遗传算法对系统的投资成本、无功补偿和滤波效果三个方面进行了优化设计研究。为克服算法的早熟收敛现象,引入了混沌算子来增加种群的多样性。工程算例的仿真计算验证了该方法的正确性和可行性,且综合性能较好,C程应用价值较高。     

A novel active power filter for reactive power compensation and harmonic suppression

A new single-phase active power filter for reactive power compensation and harmonic suppression is proposed. Besides the general performance of other active power filters, it also has the feature that it can maintain the mains current as a sine-wave and correct the displacement power factor close to unity even when the mains voltage is distorted. A prototype of this active power filter is developed and tested under rectifier load to verify its performance. The test results show that the proposed scheme can compensate the reactive power and suppress harmonics of the nonlinear load effectively.     

Predictive transient-following control of shunt and series activepower filters

A novel technique is presented for generation of a contemporary estimate of the fundamental component of the distorted input current or voltage to an uncontrolled three-phase bridge rectifier with a DC link smoothing filter. This allows for accurate calculation of cancellation references for series and shunt active power filters (APF) operating under steady-state and transient conditions. Improved transient performance allows for reduction of the power rating and control system bandwidth of an APF. An artificial neural network (ANN) predictor has been used to directly calculate the mean dq-axis input to the rectifier without filtering. This is a critical stage in separating harmonic distortion from fundamental current or voltage. The technique is developed using simulation data for both series and shunt APFs and validated with experimental results. The predictive harmonic identifier shows good steady-state performance and excellent transient performance that far exceeds that of a conventional identifier using time-domain or frequency-domain filtering     

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.     

The Application of Particle Swarm Optimization to Passive and Hybrid Active Power Filter Design

This paper proposes an optimal design method for passive power filters (PPFs) and hybrid active power filters (HAPFs) set at high voltage levels to satisfy the requirements of harmonic filtering and reactive power compensation. Multiobjective optimization models for PPF and HAPF were constructed. Detuning effects and faults were also considered by constructing constraints during the optimal process, which improved the reliability and practicability of the designed filters. An effective strategy was adopted to solve the multiobjective optimization problems for the designs of PPF and HAPF. Furthermore, the particle swarm optimization algorithm was developed for searching an optimal solution of planning of filters. An application of the method to an industrial case involving harmonic and reactive power problems indicated the superiority and practicality of the proposed design methods.      

Reference current estimation under distorted line voltage for control of shunt active power filters

Shunt active power filters (APF) are used in power systems for the compensation of harmonic currents generated for non linear loads. A new digital reference current estimation method for control of APF using a Kalman digital algorithm is presented. Its capability of prediction avoids the effects of computational lags derived from the digital signal processing. The characteristics of the proposed technique are: the harmonic current compensation in a global or a selective way, the fast dynamical response and its independence from disturbances in the line voltage waveform. Simulation and experimental results under distorted supply voltages demonstrate the usefulness of the presented technique to improve the filtering performance.