scholarly journals Investigation on the Work Efficiency of the LC Passive Harmonic Filter Chosen Topologies

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 896
Author(s):  
Chamberlin Stéphane Azebaze Mboving

The use of passive harmonic filters (PHFs) in an electrical system is in most cases for the fundamental harmonic reactive power compensation and harmonics mitigation. In comparison to other filters applied to improve the power quality, such as the shunt active power filter or hybrid active power filter, their main advantages are the low investment costs and easy applicability in low-, medium-, and high-voltage electrical systems. However, their installation demands a deep analysis of the electrical system as well as a thorough knowledge of the topology to be installed. Their work efficiency is influenced by the parameters of the electrical system (grid, load, and filter itself) which must be well-known before installation. The aim of this paper is to present an investigation on the work efficiency of the LC passive harmonic filter chosen topologies. The PHFs are investigated in the frequency domain through their impedance versus frequency characteristics as well as in the time domain through an electrical system. A comparative study between filters is also considered. The investigations on the case examples of PHFs are based on simulations and some laboratory studies are also presented.

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. 1951
Author(s):  
Mihaela Popescu ◽  
Alexandru Bitoleanu ◽  
Mihaita Linca ◽  
Constantin Vlad Suru

This paper presents the use of a three-phase four-wire shunt active power filter to improve the power quality in the Department of Industrial Electronics of a large enterprise from Romania. The specificity is given by the predominant existence of single-phase consumers (such as personal computers, printers, lighting and AC equipment). In order to identify the power quality indicators and ways to improve them, an A-class analyzer was used to record the electrical quantities and energy parameters in the point of common coupling (PCC) with the nonlinear loads for 27 h. The analysis shows that, in order to improve the power quality in PCC, three goals must be achieved: the compensation of the distortion power, the compensation of the reactive power and the compensation of the load unbalance. By using the conceived three-leg shunt active power filter, controlled through the indirect current control method in an original variant, the power quality at the supply side is very much improved. In the proposed control algorithm, the prescribed active current is obtained as a sum of the loss current provided by the DC voltage and the equivalent active current of the unbalanced load. The performance associated with each objective of the compensation is presented and analyzed. The results show that all the power quality indicators meet the specific standards and regulations and prove the validity of the proposed solution.


Author(s):  
Kamel Saleh ◽  
Omar Mahmoud

<span>This paper presents a novel shunt active power filter (SAPF). The power converter that is used in this SAPF is constructed from a four-leg asymmetric multi-level cascaded H-bridge (CHB) inverter that is fed from a photovoltaic source. A three-dimensional space vector modulation (3D-SVPWM) technique is adopted in this work. The multi-level inverter can generate 27-level output with harmonic content is almost zero. In addition to the capability to inject reactive power and mitigating the harmonics, the proposed SAPF has also, the ability to inject real power as it is fed from a PV source. Moreover, it has a fault-tolerant capability that makes the SAPF maintaining its operation under a loss of one leg of the multi-level inverter due to an open-circuit fault without any degradation in the performance. The proposed SAPF is designed and simulated in MATLAB SIMULINK using a single nonlinear load and the results have shown a significant reduction in total harmonics distortion (THD) of the source current under the normal operating condition and post a failure in one phase of the SAPF. Also, similar results are obtained when IEEE 15 bus network is used.</span>


Author(s):  
Alok Kumar Mishra ◽  
Prakash Kumar Ray ◽  
Akshaya Kumar Patra ◽  
Ranjan Kumar Mallick ◽  
Soumya Ranjan Das ◽  
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2012 ◽  
Vol 468-471 ◽  
pp. 245-251
Author(s):  
Shou Ming Liu ◽  
Hong Wei Shi ◽  
Qian Zhang ◽  
Zhi Kun Hu

In this paper, the impuissance of traditional ip-iq method in reactive power compensation applications under nonideal mains voltages is illustrated first, and then a novel current reference calculation method for Shunt Active Power Filter (SAPF) based on p-q transformation is proposed. By means of the proposed method, the positive sequence fundamental active current component of the load current can be isolated under distorted and/or unbalanced mains voltages, which makes SAPF be capable of harmonic cancellation and reactive power compensation at the same time under nonideal mains voltages. The effectiveness of the new proposed method is mathematically studied and verified by computer simulation under ideal and nonideal mains voltages.


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