Cascaded multilevel inverter based shunt active power filter in four-wire distribution system

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

19-20 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper presents a compensating system for the harmonics and the reactive power in a four-wire distribution system, using five-level cascaded inverter based shunt active power filter (SAPF). The distribution network which supplies mixed nonlinear loads and employing SAPF is simulated by MATLAB/SIMULINK software. The Simulation results indicate that with the proposed control method, the SAPF is capable of compensating the source current harmonics and the reactive power. Simultaneously the THD is minimized and the neutral current is maintained close to zero.

Keywords

active filters; compensation; distribution networks; harmonic distortion; invertors; power harmonic filters; reactive power; Matlab-Simulink software; THD; cascaded multilevel inverter based shunt active power filter; compensating system; distribution network; five-level cascaded inverter; four-wire distribution system; neutral current; reactive power; source current harmonic compensation; total harmonic distortion; Active filters; Harmonic analysis; Inverters; Mathematical model; Power harmonic filters; Reactive power; Harmonics and reactive power compensation; multilevel voltage source inverter; shunt active power filter; total harmonics distortion;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

National Postgraduate Conference (NPC), 2011

Conference_Location

Kuala Lumpur

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1882-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NatPC.2011.6136339

Filename

6136339