A comparative study of Shunt Active Power Filter performance in distribution systems

Author

Abdalla, Izzeldin Idris ; Rao, K. S Rama ; Perumal, N.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. Teknol. PETRONAS, Tronoh, Malaysia

fYear

2011

fDate

6-7 June 2011

Firstpage

273

Lastpage

278

Abstract

This paper aims to present a comparative simulation study of Shunt Active Power Filter (SAPF) compensation performance on a three-phase three-wire distribution system supplying a nonlinear load. The SAPF model is developed to generate compensating reference currents by instantaneous reactive power theory based hysteresis current controller. The simulation of the distribution system supplying a three-phase nonlinear load based on MATLAB/SIMULINK and PSCAD/ EMTDC software show the effect on compensating reactive power and harmonic components of the source current. Simulation results show that, MATLAB outperformed over PSCAD to accurately implement and validate the model providing more degrees of freedom and relatively better settings in real time.

Keywords

CAD; active filters; distribution networks; electric current control; harmonic distortion; hysteresis; mathematics computing; power engineering computing; power filters; power system harmonics; power system simulation; reactive power; Matlab/Simulink; PSCAD/ EMTDC; compensating reference current; compensation performance; harmonic components; hysteresis current controller; instantaneous reactive power theory; shunt active power filter; source current; three phase nonlinear load; three phase three wire distribution system; Active filters; Harmonic analysis; Load modeling; Mathematical model; Power harmonic filters; Reactive power; Harmonics mitigation; nonlinear loads; three-phase SAPF; total harmonic distortion;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Engineering and Optimization Conference (PEOCO), 2011 5th International

Conference_Location

Shah Alam, Selangor

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0355-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PEOCO.2011.5970415

Filename

5970415