Rectifier design for minimum line current harmonics and maximum power factor

Author

Kelley, Arthur W. ; Yadusky, William F.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, USA

fYear

1989

fDate

13-17 Mar 1989

Firstpage

13

Lastpage

22

Abstract

A current quantitative computer simulation-based analysis is presented for single- and three-phase rectifier line current harmonics and power factors as a function of the output filter inductor. A finite-output filter inductor is shown to produce minimum single-phase rectifier line-current harmonics and, if used with an input displacement power factor correction capacitor, to produce maximum overall power factor. A filter inductor with near-infinite output is shown to produce minimum three-phase rectifier line-current harmonics and maximum overall power factor; the smallest inductor that approximates a near-infinite inductor is determined

Keywords

circuit analysis computing; digital simulation; harmonics; power engineering computing; power factor; rectifiers; capacitor; design; digital simulation; line current harmonics; output filter inductor; power engineering computing; power factor correction; rectifier; Analytical models; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Harmonic analysis; Inductors; Power factor correction; Power harmonic filters; Power system harmonics; Reactive power; Rectifiers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, 1989. APEC' 89. Conference Proceedings 1989., Fourth Annual IEEE

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APEC.1989.36947

Filename

36947