1. Three-level inverter-based shunt active power filter in three-phase three-wire and four-wire systems
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Vodyakho, Oleg and Mi, Chris C.
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Electric filters -- Design and construction ,Electric inverters -- Design and construction ,Business ,Electronics ,Electronics and electrical industries - Abstract
This paper presents a direct current-space-vector control of an active power filter (APF) based on a three-level neutral-point-clamped (NPC) voltage-source inverter. The proposed method indirectly generates the compensation current reference by using an equivalent conductance of the fundamental component using APF's dc-link voltage control. The proposed control can selectively choose harmonic current components by real-time fast Fourier transform to generate the compensation current. The compensation current is represented in a rotating coordinate system with chosen switching states from a switching table implemented in a field-programmable gate array. In addition, a three-phase four-wire APF based on a three-level neutral-point-clamped inverter is also presented. The proposed APF eliminates harmonics in all three phases as well as the neutral current. A three-phase three-wire NPC inverter system can be used as a three-phase four-wire system since the sprit dc capacitors provide a neutral connection. To regulate and balance the split dc-capacitor voltages, a new control method using a sign cubical hysteresis controller is proposed. The characteristics of the APF system with an LCL-ripple filter are investigated and compared with traditional current control strategies to evaluate the inherent advantages. The simulation and experimental results validated the feasibility of the proposed APF. Index Terms--Direct current control (DCC), multilevel inverters, neutral clamped, power factor correction, power filter, reactive power compensation, shunt active filter, space vector, three-phase four-wire system, voltage-source inverter (VSI).
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- 2009