Single Phase Shunt Active Power Filter for Harmonic Mitigation and Power Factor Correction

used non-linear electrical devices in office equipments, industries and residential home include as power converters, power sources, Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) units, and fluorescent lamps. etc, All of these loads inject harmonic currents and reactive power into the power system . This paper is focusing on the application of A Single Phase Shunt Active Power Filter (1Ø SAPF) with Hysteresis Current Control (HCC) in treating the harmonics distortion in the distributionsystem by determining low Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) value and improving the system’s Power Factor (PF). To obtain result for this paper, the MATLAB / Simulink was used as a simulation tool. The presented system is able to compensate current harmonics, reactive power of non linear loads. The total harmonic distortion is calculated for deferent loads before and after filtering. The achieved results are within the recommended IEEE-519 standard and also the power factor of thesystem to almost euery.