Unbalance supply and its effect on rectifier input filter kVA ratings

Author

Maswood, Ali I. ; Rashid, M.H.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Concordia Univ., Montreal, Que., Canada

fYear

1991

fDate

10-15 Mar 1991

Firstpage

333

Lastpage

336

Abstract

A properly designed input filter traps one or more undesirable input current harmonic components. The effects of these various current harmonics on the filter kVA are evaluated for various operating conditions such as balanced and unbalanced supply voltage, constant DC load current, and with varying delay angles. An electrical circuit simulator software package is used to simulate the rectifier, as well as the filter and voltage sources. The authors establish a quantitative relationship between the degree of unbalances and the consequent change of input filter kVA rating. This is done for a naturally commutated phase controlled and also for a forced commutated programmed pulse-width-modulated (PWM) power converter

Keywords

circuit analysis computing; commutation; digital simulation; filters; harmonics; power convertors; power engineering computing; pulse width modulation; rectifiers; PWM; commutation; constant DC load current; delay angles; digital simulation; input current harmonic; input filter; kVA ratings; power convertors; power engineering computing; rectifier; software package; supply voltage; unbalance; Capacitors; Circuit simulation; Current supplies; Inductors; Power generation economics; Power harmonic filters; Pulse width modulation converters; Rectifiers; Switching converters; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, 1991. APEC '91. Conference Proceedings, 1991., Sixth Annual

Conference_Location

Dallas, TX

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0024-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APEC.1991.146190

Filename

146190