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IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN ENGINEERING, SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT 1
Abstract This paper suggests a new method that consists of a a. Power rating and speed of response required in
four leg inverter that is capable of simultaneously compensating compensated system
problems like power factor, current imbalance and current b. System parameters to be compensated (e.g. current
harmonics, and also of injecting the energy generated by harmonics, power factor , voltage harmonics)
renewable energy power sources. The fourth leg of inverter is
c. Technique used for estimating the reference
used to compensate the neutral current of load. The grid
interfacing inverter can thus be utilized as: 1) power converter to current/voltage.
inject power generated from RES to the grid, and 2) shunt APF Current controlled voltage source inverters can be utilized
to compensate current unbalance, load current harmonics and with appropriate control strategy to perform active filter
load reactive power demand. The inverter is actively controlled in functionality. The electrical grid will include a very large
such a way that it draws/supplies fundamental active power number of small producers that use renewable energy sources,
from/to the grid. All of these functions may be accomplished like solar panels or wind generators. One of the most common
either individually or simultaneously. This new control concept is
demonstrated with extensive MATLAB/Simulink simulation problems when connecting small renewable energy systems to
studies. the electric grid concerns the interface unit between the power
sources and the grid, because it can inject harmonic
Index Terms Active power lter (APF), distributed components that may detoriate the power quality. However,
generation (DG), power quality (PQ), renewable energy (RE) the extensive use of power electronics based equipment and
and Voltage source Inverter (VSI). non-linear loads at PCC generate harmonic currents, which
may detoriate the quality power [3],[4]. In [5] an inverter
I. INTRODUCTION operates as active inductor at a certain frequency to absorb the
The widespread use of non-linear loads is leading to a harmonic current. A similar approach in which a shunt active
variety of undesirable phenomena in the operation of power lter acts as active conductance to damp out the harmonics in
systems. The harmonic components in current and voltage distribution network is proposed in [6].
waveforms are the most important among these. Generally, current controlled voltage source inverters are
Conventionally, passive filters have been used to eliminate line used to interface the intermittent RES in distributed system.
current harmonics. However, they introduce resonance in the This paper suggests a new method that consists of four leg VSI
power system and tend to be bulky. So active power line that is capable of simultaneously compensating problems like
conditioners have become popular than passive filters as it power factor, current imbalance and current harmonics, and
compensates the harmonics and reactive power simultaneously also of injecting the energy generated by renewable energy
[1]. The active power filter topology can be connected in power sources with a very low THD. Even when there is no
series or shunt and combinations of both. Shunt active filter is energy available from the power source the Voltage source
more popular than series active filter because most of the inverter can still operate, increasing the power quality of the
industrial applications require current harmonics electric grid. Thus the grid interfacing inverter is effectively
compensation. Different types of active filters have been utilized to perform the following functions
proposed to increase the electric system quality; a generalized a. Active power injection
block diagram of active power filter is presented in [2]. The b. Current harmonics compensation at PCC.
classification is based on following criteria. c. Current unbalance and neutral current compensation in
3-phase 4-wire system.
Grid
B Unbalanced
From equation (2) and (3), we get
C
Non linear
N
loads iS = iLaf (4)
Ia Ib Ic In
Delta - Star
Va Vb Vc
Distribution
If iLah > iInva switch2 should be OFF and switch 1 should
Iinva
Iinvb
Iinvn
Iinvc
Fig.6 Grid Voltages, Grid Currents, Unbalanced load Currents and Inverter
Currents
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