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Control strategy for hybrid active filters leading to redaced inserter rating
ASIMINOAEI L.
ASIMINOAEI L.
Active filter, power conditioning, passive filter. Active Power Filters have been intensively explored in the past decade. Various topologies and control schemes have been documented aiming at reducing the cost and improving the performance of the compensation system. Hybrid active filters inherit the efficiency of passive filters and the improved performance of active filters, and thus constitute a viable improved approach for harmonic compensation. In this paper a parallel hybrid filter is studied for current harmonic compensation. The hybrid filter is formed by a single tuned LC filter per phase and a small-rated power three-phase active filter, which are directly connected in series without any matching transformer. The required rating of the active filter is much smaller than a conventional standalone active filter would be. No additional switching-ripple filter is required for the hybrid filter because the LC filter functions not only as a harmonic filter but also as a switching-ripple filter around 10 kHz. Simulation results and experimental results obtained in laboratory confirmed the validity and effectiveness of the control.
I.
Keywords
Abstract
Introduction
The existence of nonlinear loads in the utility has been increasing at an unprecedented pace in recent years. Industries have adopted adjustable speed drives, dc power supplies to improve efficiency and productivity. Most of the equipment uses a rectifier front end to convert ac power from the utility to dc power. The rectifier front ends inject harmonic current into the utility due to their nonlinear nature and cause many problems, such as overheating of utility transformers, harmonic resonances in the utility, and increased losses. Traditionally, LC tuned passive filters have been used to absorb harmonic currents generated by nonlinear loads. Their main advantage is high reliability and low cost. However they have several drawbacks: * Mistuning occurs due to component tolerances of the inductors and capacitors, typically 10% from the nominal values. . Filtering performance is affected by the variation of source impedance, variation of the system frequency, and variation of component values due to temperature change. * In the presence of "stiff' utility sharp tuning of the LC filter is required [1], [2]. . The LC passive filter may form series and parallel resonances with the utility, which will result in amplification of harmonic currents in the supply [3], [4]. * The LC tuned filter may also attract harmonic currents from ambient harmonic loads that may cause overloading. Several active filter topologies have been proposed in the literature [5], [6], [7]. For high-power applications, particularly 10 MVAR and above, the active filter topologies are not cost effective due to their large rating and high switching-frequency requirement of the PWM inverter. Therefore, LC tuned passive filters are usually used for harmonic filtering of such large nonlinear loads. However, as discussed above, passive filters have several drawbacks, which may cause harmonic interaction problems with the utility system, and may not meet the specified IEEE 519 harmonic current limits.
cost effective and can meet the IEEE 519 recommended standard for high-power nonlinear loads. This paper studies a transformerless hybrid filter for power conversion systems, as three-phase six-
This provides
the
motivation
for investigation
of
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pulse diode rectifier and adjustable speed drives (Fig. 1). Hybrid filters combining an active filter with passive components such as transformers, capacitors and reactors have been proposed mainly for reducing the required voltage and ratings of the active filter. However, these hybrid filters might not be preferable in terms of size and weight because of many passive components and/or transformers.
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Supply
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The power scheme of the hybrid filter is presented below. The scheme contains the three-phase supply voltage, three-phase diode rectifier and the active filter connected to the system through the LC passive filter.
Supply/line inductance
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L-C
23 mH
14mH
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The supply is a three-phase three-wire source with V,,=220 V phase to neutral. Ls is simulating the line inductance. The ac inductance LI is designed to be much larger that the supply inductance LS, in order to keep a fault current, flowing through the rectifier and/or the dc load. This inductance is needed, also, because the rectifier introduces high order harmonics in the supply current and they can hardly be suppressed by passive or active filters. An inductance and a capacitor, which are series connected, form the passive filter. A single LC passive filter per phase and a small-rated active filter using a three-phase PWM inverter are directly connected in series without any matching transformer forming the hybrid filter. The active filter consist of a single three-phase voltage source PWM inverter using six IGBTs. A capacitor of 4500 iF is set in the dc-bus of the inverter.
B. Compensation principle Fig. 2. can be simplified for one phase as shown in Fig. 3. Where Z, is the source impedance and Zf is the total impedance of the passive filter. The active filter is considered as a voltage source VAF and when the active filter is not working VAF= 0 and the supply harmonic current is:
*i
SLS + ZF
ZF
(1)
Fig. 3. Single phase equivalent circuit for the hybrid filter and load
When the active filter is connected is acting as a resistor k, see Fig. 4, and it helps the passive filter to that a small amount of harmonic current can flow to the absorb the load harmonic current ILhi supply. In addition, the active filter can damp out the harmonic resonance.
so
LS
Vth
i Fh
Ish
ZFh
Fig. 4. Equivalent circuit when the active filter is connected in the system
After the active filter is connected, the supply harmonic current is decreasing according to eq. (2).
*
ZF
k + SLS + ZF
(2)
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III.
Control system
The diagram showed in Fig.7 is used for simulations and for experiments, in the final of the paper it will be seen that similar results are obtained in both situations. The scheme in Fig. 5, shows the connection of the 5 sensors needed for the control diagram. The three-phase supply currents are sensed and used for feedback loop. Phase Locked Loop (PLL) is used to transform the three-phase supply currents into Synchronous Reference Frame (SRF), and for that the supply phase voltage is used. The capacitor voltage is measured in order to maintain it fixed at a desired value, needed for the control.
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C. DC-bus
voltage
control
the dc
capacitor voltage by itself without any external power supply. When produce a fundamental voltage being in phase with the fundamental leading current of the passive filter, an active power formed by the leading current and the fundamental voltage is delivered to the dc capacitor. A proportional plus integral PI control is used for the control algorithm.
The active filter
the active filter is controlled to
regulates
IV. Simulations
Computer
The
viability
proposed hybrid
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ASIMINOAEI L.
The calculation of total harmonic distortion is made according to eq. (3), where I3,1I5....,I25 are
100 [5l%]
(3)
The current flowing through the inverter (Fig. 9) has a high amount of 5th harmonic which hybrid filter compensates for 5th order harmonic according to the realized control.
Current thriclugh actfie filter
B. Results after the connection of the hybrid filter Comparing the harmonic spectrum of the supply voltage, before (Fig. 7 a) and after the connection of the filter (Fig. 7 b.), can be noticed that the 5th order voltage harmonic is decreasing from 4.2 V to 0.3 V. This decrease of the voltage THD is derived from the compensation of the current harmonics.
proves
that the
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Fig. 9. The current through the active filter after the connection to the system.
The amplitude of 5th harmonic from the current flowing through the active filter (Fig. 9) is almost the same value as the 5th order current harmonic from the load current. This means that the hybrid filter absorbs the most part of 5th order harmonic current, flowing from the nonlinear load. The voltage on the dc side of the inverter is regulated by PI controller from the control diagram (see Fig. 6.). If the voltage on the capacitor is big, then the losses will be bigger because the inverter has to draw more reactive power from the system. On the other hand if the voltage on the dc capacitor, is too low, then the filter can not compensate all the amount of harmonics due to inverter switching losses. As it can be seen in Fig. 10, after the connection of the filter, the load currents have the same amount of harmonics as before of the filter connection (Fig. 8 a). This means that the filter only makes a separation of harmonics between load and grid, and is not compensating the harmonics from the load
currents.
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The harmonic spectrum of the supply current is shown in Fig. 16 b), and proves that the hybrid filter is able to compensate the 5th and 7th order current harmonics. Therefore, the hybrid filter isolates the load harmonics, which means that the filter is absorbing the harmonics generated by nonlinear load. The total harmonic distortion of supply current, is decreasing from 23.5 % to 4.5 % thus, meeting the IEEE 519 recommended harmonic standard. In Table II the harmonic content of the three most important currents from the system are presented. Note that due to passive filter tuning for 5th order harmonic, the hybrid filter does not compensate for
high order harmonics like, 1 3th, 1 7th and 1 9th.
Table II. The content of harmonics in the three main system currents, obtained in simulations.
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1.75 1.8
0.66 1.25
0.272 0.037
0.146 0.034
0.079 0.017
0.049 0.019
23.5 90
0.45
0.46
0.25
0.167
0.085
0.054
4.5
The most important three-phase currents from the system are shown in Fig. 11. In Fig. 11 (a), the load currents are shown. They have almost an rectangular shape because of the high content of harmonics. The three-phase currents from inverter are shown in Fig. 11 (b), note that the magnitude of inverter currents is half of the load currents and the big content of 5th order harmonic current is present. Finally in Fig. 11 c), the supply currents can be seen; notice the difference between the load currents with a THD = 23.5 % and the supply currents with THD = 4.5 %.
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V. Experimental system
A. System specifications A 380-V 3-kVA laboratory system has been designed and constructed to confirm the viability of the proposed control. Fig. 5 shows the system configuration of the active filter used in the experiment. Its specifications are shown in Table I. The active filter is rated at 5 % from the load, with a dc-bus voltage as low as 32 V.
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A Danfoss brand inverter, with 6 IGBTs, was used as an active filter and its control realized with a Texas Instruments DSP. Using embedded target for eZdsp F2812 from Simulink/Matlab, the C code for the DSP was made implementing the diagram from Fig. 6. in fixed point. The switching frequency of the active filter is 10 kHz. The dc capacitor of the active filter is 4500
gF.
B. Experimental results Experiments were carried out to confirm the operating principle. The dc load is composing from a capacitor of 50 gF and a resistance of 78 Q, parallel connected. Fig. 12 shows experimental waveforms when the designed control is applied to the active filter.
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Fig. 12. Main system currents after the connection of the filter, a) load current; b) inverter current; c) supply current.
The 5th harmonic order from the load current is 1.62 A, as shown in Fig. 13. The high order harmonics are insignificant comparing to 5th harmonic; 7th harmonic is 0.3 A and 11th harmonic is 0.2 A. The content of harmonics from the load currents is the same before and after the connection of the active filter.
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current
injected by
the
hybrid
filter
and
injected into the system by the hybrid filter (Fig. 14), has almost the 7horder harmonics as the load current (Fig. 13). The 5hharmonic is 1.82 A
means
same
and
0.28 A. This
same
quantity
of harmonics that
opposite sign.
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is under 4.5 %.
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as
be
in the Table
II.
Table
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Comparing the experimental results with the simulations, can be seen that the results regarding the are nearly the same. This confirm the accuracy of the realized simulations and the validity of the control. As an observation, the experimental system proved to be more unstable than in the simulations, being sensitive to grid configuration, meaning the background distortions caused by other consumers connected to the grid.
current harmonic content,
VI. Conclusions
The hybrid filter, draw the harmonic currents coming from the nonlinear load, so the harmonics are not flowing into the grid. Though the load draws non-sinusoidal current and supply current remains
sinusoidal this means that the hybrid filter is achieving a separation between load and supply, regarding the harmonic currents. The passive filter is off-tuned to 5.6th order harmonic, but the active filter performs the right tuning of the passive filter for 5th, 7th, 11th and 13th order harmonics. There is no need of additional filter for switching-ripple because this is achieved by the passive filter. The rating of the active filter is only 5 % from the load rate, due to hybrid topology. The hybrid filter does not require any supply voltage on dc side of the inverter. The voltage on capacitor from dc side of the inverter is maintained constant 32 V, from the applied control. The same control and the same power system, were tested for a supply of U1-S = 110 V. The experiments, confirmed that the same control works for this supply too, with the same good results. The goal of this paper has been fulfilled by decreasing the total harmonic distortion, of the supply currents, from 23.5 %, under 5 %, in physical experiments and, also, in the simulations, thus meeting the IEEE 519 recommended harmonic standard.
VII. References
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