A Four-leg active power filter for harmonic mitigation and reactive power compensation in unbalanced loads systems using CFL technology

Author

Nohra, A.F.H. ; Kanaan, Hadi Y. ; Al-Haddad, Kamal

Author_Institution

Fac. of Eng. - ESIB, St.-Joseph Univ., Mkalles, Lebanon

fYear

2013

fDate

25-28 Feb. 2013

Firstpage

1934

Lastpage

1939

Abstract

A four leg static compensator for harmonic mitigation and reactive power compensation is proposed for an unbalanced load consisting of CFL and R-L linear loads. The converter is controlled in order to insure high power factor and neutral current compensation at the source level. In order to verify the performance of the power conversion system a digital model of the CFL is developed and implemented into the SimPower simulation platform. The obtained results show high quality performance of the converter in terms of total harmonic distortion, power factor and transient characteristics. In addition, the system response towards load variation and unbalance is tested and analyzed.

Keywords

active filters; electric current control; harmonic distortion; power convertors; power harmonic filters; reactive power control; CFL digital model; CFL linear loads; CFL technology; R-L linear loads; SimPower simulation platform; converter; four leg static compensator; four-leg active power filter; harmonic mitigation; neutral current compensation; power conversion system; power factor; reactive power compensation; source level; total harmonic distortion; transient characteristics; unbalanced load systems; Filtering; Harmonic analysis; Load modeling; Mathematical model; Numerical models; Power harmonic filters; Reactive power; CFL; active power filter; harmonics; linear control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Technology (ICIT), 2013 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cape Town

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4567-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-4568-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIT.2013.6505974

Filename

6505974