Active Harmonic Filters

Author

Akagi, Hirofumi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Tokyo Inst. of Technol., Japan

Volume

93

Issue

12

fYear

2005

Firstpage

2128

Lastpage

2141

Abstract

Unlike traditional passive harmonic filters, modern active harmonic filters have the following multiple functions: harmonic filtering, damping,isolation and termination, reactive-power control for power factor correction and voltage regulation, load balancing, voltage-flicker reduction, and/or their combinations. Significant cost reductions in both power semiconductor devices and signal processing devices have inspired manufactures to put active filters on the market. This paper deals with general pure active filters for power conditioning, and specific hybrid active filters for harmonic filtering of three-phase diode rectifiers.

Keywords

active filters; power filters; rectifying circuits; active harmonic filters; hybrid active filters; power conditioning; power quality; power semiconductor devices; signal processing devices; three-phase diode rectifiers; Active filters; Costs; Filtering; Harmonic filters; Load management; Passive filters; Power factor correction; Power harmonic filters; Power system harmonics; Voltage control; Active filters; harmonics; passive filters; power quality; power semiconductor devices;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Proceedings of the IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9219

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JPROC.2005.859603

Filename

1545766