A three-phase PWM rectifier with reactive power compensation function

Author

Gan Wei ; Ji Hongchao ; Yang Xingwu

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Shanghai Univ. of Electr. Power, Shanghai, China

fYear

2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper presents a new type of three-phase PWM rectifier with reactive power compensation function. The rectifier compensates reactive power based on its rated capacity. Under light and medium load, the rectifier has enough capacity to fulfill both reactive power compensation and PWM rectifier tasks. Thanks to the double-loop control and the sinusoidal-pulse-width-modulated (SPWM), the control system is able to stabilize the DC voltage and eliminate steady-state error. In addition to improvement of the power factor, the rectifier also has a unique advantage - improvement of equipment utilization. It is shown by analysis and simulations that the proposed rectifier offers an effective and practical solution to compensate the reactive power.

Keywords

PWM rectifiers; compensation; power factor; reactive power control; DC voltage; SPWM; double-loop control; power factor improvement; reactive power compensation function; sinusoidal-pulse-width-modulated; steady-state error elimination; three-phase PWM rectifier; Insulated gate bipolar transistors; Pulse width modulation; Reactive power; Rectifiers; Simulation; Voltage control; Voltage measurement; PWM rectifier; equipment utilization; power factor; reactive power compensation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power and Energy Engineering Conference (APPEEC), 2014 IEEE PES Asia-Pacific

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APPEEC.2014.7066073

Filename

7066073