Power quality enhancement using a unified switched capacitor compensator

Author

Sharaf, A.M. ; Kreidi, Pierre

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., New Brunswick Univ., Fredericton, NB, Canada

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

4-7 May 2003

Firstpage

331

Abstract

The paper presents a low cost switched capacitor filter compensator for power quality enhancement and harmonic mitigation of computerized networks with nonlinear temporal electric loads. The power filter/capacitor compensator unified scheme provides an effective way to enhance power quality, reduce harmonics and waveform distortion for computerized low voltage utilization networks characterized with a temporal nonlinear switch mode power supplies (SMPS). The new unified switched filter capacitive compensator (USCS) is an extension of a family of static compensators, electrical energy saving devices and switched/modulated passive filters developed by the first author.

Keywords

power engineering computing; power harmonic filters; power supply quality; switched capacitor filters; switched mode power supplies; computerized low voltage utilization networks; computerized networks; electrical energy saving devices; modulated passive filter; nonlinear temporal electric loads; power harmonic mitigation; power quality enhancement; static compensators; switch mode power supplies; switched passive filters; unified switched filter capacitive compensator; waveform distortion reduction; Computer networks; Costs; Passive filters; Power filters; Power harmonic filters; Power quality; Power system harmonics; Switched capacitor networks; Switched-mode power supply; Switches;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2003. IEEE CCECE 2003. Canadian Conference on

ISSN

0840-7789

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7781-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.2003.1226408

Filename

1226408