This paper investigates mitigation of current harmonics using different configuration of cascaded multilevel inverter based shunt hybrid active power filter (SHAPF) and to improve power quality of the system. The main objective of this paper is to develop and analyze the compensation characteristics of cascaded multilevel inverter based shunt hybrid active power filter by employing indirect cur...

-As the use of power electronic equipment is spreading, the degradation of the power quality in the utility networks is increasing and is becoming a major problem. Limiting the current distortion is therefore a concern for both utilities and consumer. Power converters such as rectifiers, power supplies and at a higher power level, arc furnaces are the sources of harmonics. This harmonics can be...

Chapter 3 presents ANN based adaptive shunt passive filter, whose performance is found to be superior to fixed element shunt passive filter in harmonic and reactive compensation. However, the drawback is that it can provide only partial harmonic and reactive power compensation. Hence, an ANN based digital controller for active filter is developed. It compensates for the major portion of source ...

The project deals with Minimum VA rating handled by a Unified Power Quality Conditioner, which consists of Series and Shunt Active Power Filter. The Series Active Filter is Dynamic Voltage Restorer (DVR), which regulates the voltage at the point of common coupling with minimum VA loading. The Shunt Active Filter is Distribution Static Compensator (DSTATCOM) which compensates the reactive power ...

Harmonic resonances may damage equipments and interrupt electric power customers services. Shutdowns may affect seriously harmonic resonant frequencies and may initiate new resonances in distribution power systems. This paper proposes various techniques for damping harmonic resonances in power systems[1-4]. A series reactor should be connected in series with the shunt power factor correction ca...

With the rapid developments and use of non linear loads, the controlling over the harmonic current to get and maintain power quality is becoming more important. Active power filters has been used to compensate the harmonic pollution in our power system. This paper presents a efficient model to compensate the current harmonics using the inverter based Shunt Active Power Filter, Passive Power Fil...

Active power conditioners have been developed over the years to solve the problems to improve power quality. Among which shunt active power conditioners is used to eliminate load current harmonics and reactive power compensation. The controller ensures that the dc-side capacitor voltage is nearly constant with small ripple besides extracting fundamental reference currents. The PLL block assists...

This paper proposes the improved methodology of power quality in grid interconnected photo voltaic system by using shunt active power filter . With development of new functionalities solar energy based Photovoltaic cells are upcoming energy source with higher efficiency. Solar energy being naturally available in abundance and nonpolluting is one of the most promising sources. Excessive use of p...