A novel AC-AC shunt active power filter without large energy storage elements

Author

Quanwei Liu ; Yan Deng ; Xiangning He

Author_Institution

Coll. of Electr. Eng., Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China

fYear

2011

fDate

Aug. 30 2011-Sept. 1 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

9

Abstract

Shunt active power filters are widely adopted to compensate for harmonic current and poor power factor generated by nonlinear loads and VAR loads such as diode bridge rectifier, lighting, motor drives, etc. Inverter-type shunt active power filters are commonly used, which employing large electrolytic capacitors as energy storage elements in the DC side. This paper presents a novel three-phase three-wire AC-AC shunt active power filter without large energy storage elements to realize dynamic VAR and harmonic current compensation. No bulky electrolytic capacitors are needed and bridge-type IGBT modules could be utilized to realize the bi-directional switches, which ensure low cost and high reliability. A 15kVA experimental prototype is built to validate the VAR and harmonic current compensation capability of the proposed converter.

Keywords

AC-AC power convertors; active filters; electrolytic capacitors; energy storage; invertors; power conversion harmonics; power factor; power filters; rectifiers; AC-AC shunt active power filter; bidirectional switches; bridge-type IGBT modules; diode bridge rectifier; electrolytic capacitors; energy storage elements; harmonic current compensation; inverter-type shunt active power filters; motor drives; power factor; Active filters; Capacitors; Harmonic analysis; Modulation; Power harmonic filters; Reactive power; AC/AC converter; Active filter; Energy storage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics and Applications (EPE 2011), Proceedings of the 2011-14th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Birmingham

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-167-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-90-75815-15-3

Type

conf

Filename

6020309