Harmonie elimination and power factor improvement of three-phase rectifier using RNSIC variant

Three-phase rectifiers with low harmonics and power factor correction have been receiving wide interest in the last years. The proposed method is based on the rectifier with near sinusoidal currents which is called RNSIC and which functions as power factor compensation in a wide range of load currents. The decrease of input current harmonics, below the limits imposed by IEEE 519/1992 and IEC 61000-3-4 international standards, allows the decrease of THD, reduces the reactive power, hence the increase in real power factor. The performance of the proposed RNSIC in power factor correction (PFC) regime is verified by simulation, as well as by experimentation, under different loads.