A 4-limb flying capacitor — Based active power filter for unbalanced distribution networks

Author

Waite, Michael J. ; Zhang, Leiqi

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. of Leeds, Leeds, UK

fYear

2011

fDate

Aug. 30 2011-Sept. 1 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

10

Abstract

A strategy is presented for the control of a 4-limb flying-capacitor multi-level inverter (FCMI) as an active power filter for unbalanced load conditions. Improved reference tracking is achieved using a modified deadbeat controller, and a naturally-balanced 3DPWM technique enables sensor-less flying-capacitor voltage control. Simulation results show the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.

Keywords

active filters; distribution networks; invertors; power capacitors; power filters; power system control; voltage control; 4-limb flying-capacitor multi-level inverter control; active power filter; naturally-balanced 3DPWM technique; sensorless flying-capacitor voltage control; unbalanced distribution networks; Active filters; Capacitors; Harmonic analysis; Inverters; Power harmonic filters; Switches; Voltage control; Active filter; Harmonics; Multilevel converters; Pulse Width Modulation (PWM);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics and Applications (EPE 2011), Proceedings of the 2011-14th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Birmingham

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-167-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-90-75815-15-3

Type

conf

Filename

6020293