An Overview of Active Power Filter

2014 ◽  
Vol 552 ◽  
pp. 111-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xue Song Zhou ◽  
Da Yan Wang ◽  
You Jie Ma
Keyword(s):  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Steel Industry ◽  
Reactive Power ◽  
Active Power Filter ◽  
Harmonic Suppression ◽  
Power Filter ◽  
Key Technologies ◽  
Suppression Technique ◽  
New Type ◽  
Compensation Device

APF has its outstanding features comparing with PPF, it is a new type harmonic suppression and reactive power compensation device. This paper makes an introduction about two key technologies about APF, and it makes a prediction to the trend of the key technologies. APF is the main harmonic suppression technique at present and in the future. At present, there are large of loads in every industry, such as, electric arc furnace in steel industry, the welder in automotive industry, and these industries are important sectors of the national economy, we can do not stop them running, only installing APF in the appropriate location .Therefore, APF has broad prospects for development in various industries.

scholarly journals Hysteresis Control for Shunt Active Power Filter under Unbalanced Three-Phase Load Conditions

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z. Chelli ◽  
R. Toufouti ◽  
A. Omeiri ◽  
S. Saad
Keyword(s):  
Reactive Power ◽  
Harmonic Distortion ◽  
Active Power Filter ◽  
Active Power ◽  
Harmonic Suppression ◽  
Nonlinear Loads ◽  
Shunt Active Power Filter ◽  
Power Filter ◽  
Three Phase ◽  
Control Scheme

This paper focuses on a four-wire shunt active power filter (APF) control scheme proposed to improve the performance of the APF. This filter is used to compensate harmonic distortion in three-phase four-wire systems. Several harmonic suppression techniques have been widely proposed and applied to minimize harmonic effects. The proposed control scheme can compensate harmonics and reactive power of the nonlinear loads simultaneously. This approach is compared to the conventional shunt APF reference compensation strategy. The developed algorithm is validated by simulation tests using MATLAB Simulink. The obtained results have demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed scheme and confirmed the theoretical developments for balanced and unbalanced nonlinear loads.

Optimization Design on Power Filter of TCR Under Asymmetrical Voltage

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 591-599
Author(s):  
Ma Wenchuan ◽  
Zhitong Li ◽  
Chen Daochang ◽  
Qi Jiaming ◽  
Zhou Qiang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Optimization Design ◽  
Reactive Power ◽  
Estimation Method ◽  
Reactive Power Compensation ◽  
Harmonic Suppression ◽  
Matlab Simulation ◽  
Steel Mill ◽  
Harmonic Current ◽  
Third Harmonic ◽  
Power Filter

For resolving the problem that power filter cannot work normally because TCR (thyristor controlled reactor) generates extra third harmonic current under asymmetrical voltage, the paper proposes the estimation method of current capacity that TCR generates extra third harmonic current under asymmetrical voltage. Considering extra third harmonic current under asymmetrical voltage, Optimum method based on genetic algorithm is used to design the parameters of power filter. With reactive power compensation and harmonic suppression project of a steel mill as example, the proposed method is simulated by Matlab. Simulation results show optimized power filter can eliminate extra third harmonic current effects under asymmetrical voltage, meet the requirement of reactive power compensation, reduce harmonics current that load injects into system, and guarantee the power filter safe operation under asymmetrical voltage.

scholarly journals Improving Power Quality by a Four-Wire Shunt Active Power Filter: A Case Study

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. 1951
Author(s):  
Mihaela Popescu ◽  
Alexandru Bitoleanu ◽  
Mihaita Linca ◽  
Constantin Vlad Suru
Keyword(s):  
Power Quality ◽  
Quality Indicators ◽  
Reactive Power ◽  
Control Method ◽  
Active Power Filter ◽  
Active Power ◽  
Current Control ◽  
Shunt Active Power Filter ◽  
Power Filter ◽  
Unbalanced Load

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.

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