Abstract— The active power filters eliminates the harmonic distortion caused by non-linear loads and improves the filtering efficiency performance when compared with the passive filters. This paper inspects about the analysis and simulation of a three phase four wire shunt active power f ilter under unbalanced and distorted load conditions. Current harmonic compensation is achieved by the imple...

An advanced control strategy of shunt active filters (SAF) aiming to compensate for harmonic current in the electric supply grid is proposed. The SAF considered here is suitable for three-phase three-wire current harmonic compensation and is based on AC/DC three-phase boost converter topology. Robust control of the active-reactive current/power delivered by the SAF is designed exploiting the in...

Author Affiliation: Institute for Power, Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia. Abstract: The aim of this letter is to present a universal power quality conditioning system (UPQS) named after unified power quality conditioner (UPQC), which is extended by adding a shunt active filter at the load side. Its main purpose...

This paper describes a novel fuzzy logic controller for a three phase shunt active shunt filter for the power quality improvement. The Power Quality (PQ) problems in power distribution systems are not new but only recently the effects of these problems have gained public awareness. These non-linear loads are constructed by nonlinear devices in which the current is not proportional to the applie...

With significant development of power converter technologies, there has been a rise of interest in an active power filter (AF). It is now well known that an active filter can easily compensate for harmonic current contents in the load current by inserting negative harmonics into the power network [B3]-[B10]. Basic principle of an active harmonic compensation is shown in Fig. 2.1. The AF can can...

An intelligent method based on wavelet neural network (WNN) is presented in this study to estimate voltage harmonic distortion waveforms at a non-monitored sensitive load. Voltage harmonics are considered as the main type of waveform distortion in the power quality approach. To detect and analyze voltage harmonics, it is not economical to install power quality monitors (PQMs) at all buses. The ...

In this paper simple single-phase grid connected photovoltaic (PV) inverter topology consisting of a boost section, a low voltage Threephase inverter with an inductive filter, and a step-up transformer interfacing the grid is considered. Ideally, this topology will not inject any lower order harmonics into the grid due to high-frequency pulse width modulation operation. However, the non ideal f...

Nowadays the increasing utilization of alternative energy sources demand power converters capable of delivering high quality energy to the low voltage grid. Good dead time compensation and linear operation are essential to keep low order harmonics at acceptable levels. High-current operating conditions are well handled by traditional methods, but low current behaviour and waveforms with multipl...

Abstract: The integration of renewable power sources with power grids presents many challenges, such as synchronization with the grid, power quality problems and so on. The shunt active power filter (SAPF) can be a solution to address the issue while suppressing the grid-end current harmonics and distortions. Nonetheless, available SAPFs work somewhat unpredictably in practice. This is attribut...

This paper first presents a simple control technique for active filters to compensate current harmonics and reactive power of nonlinear loads. This method is usable for both single –phase and three –phase systems. Then a new method for load balancing and reactive power compensation for unbalanced sinusoidal load currents is presented. Finally by combination of two methods an active filter contr...