A selected harmonics compensation method with Distributed Energy Resources

Author

Ahmadi, Damoun ; Wang, Jin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

15-20 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

204

Lastpage

210

Abstract

Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) are expected to provide ancillary functions including reactive power generation and harmonics compensation. Meanwhile, multilevel inverters and two level converters with Optimal Pulse Width Modulation (OPWM) will be commonly used for DERs at high power levels. The challenge is to realize harmonic compensation with limited switching angles. This work presents a four equations based method to realize Selected Harmonics Compensation (SHC) and power generation with DERs. Since the power converter is requested to realize both harmonics filtering and power generation; limitations on harmonics compensation at the given power are discussed. Power Hardware-in-the-loop based verifications are shown at the end of the paper.

Keywords

PWM power convertors; compensation; distribution networks; electric power generation; energy resources; power harmonic filters; switching convertors; DER; OPWM; SHC method; ancillary function; distributed energy resource; harmonics filtering; optimal pulse width modulation; power hardware-in-the-loop; reactive power generation; selected harmonics compensation method; switching angle; two level multilevel power converter; Active filters; Equations; Harmonic analysis; Inverters; Mathematical model; Power harmonic filters; Active Power Filter; Distributed Energy Resources; Power Hardware In the Loop; Selected Harmonics Compensation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), 2012 IEEE

Conference_Location

Raleigh, NC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0802-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-0801-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECCE.2012.6342822

Filename

6342822