A study of shunt active power filter based on modular multilevel converter (MMC)

Author

Ghetti, F.T. ; Ferreira, Aida A. ; Braga, Henrique A. C. ; Barbosa, Pedro G.

Author_Institution

Power Electron. & Autom. Group, Fed. Univ. of Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil

fYear

2012

fDate

5-7 Nov. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This paper presents a study of a shunt active power filter based on the modular multilevel converter (MMC) topology. The current controller of the shunt active power filter uses a PI-MRI (PI with multi reference frame integrators) technique to assure that the APF current tracks the reference signal. It is also investigated the performance of the method of selection and classification used to choose and to control which submodule (SM) of the MMC will become active. Simulation results will be used to evaluate and to demonstrate the behavior of MMC as active power filter.

Keywords

active filters; electric current control; power convertors; power filters; APF current; MMC topology; PI with multi reference frame integrators; PI-MRI; current controller; modular multilevel converter topology; shunt active power filter; Active filters; Capacitors; Harmonic analysis; Power harmonic filters; Shunts (electrical); Switches; Voltage control; Modular multilevel converter; active power filter; harmonics; non-linear load;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industry Applications (INDUSCON), 2012 10th IEEE/IAS International Conference on

Conference_Location

Fortaleza

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2412-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INDUSCON.2012.6453236

Filename

6453236