POWER QUALITY AND

HARMONIC ANALISYS
SIMULATIONS OF THREE FORCED
COMMUTATION CONVERTERS WITH PULSE
WIDTH MODULATION (PWM) FED BY VOLTAGE

GROUP:
DIEGO CANALES
ERICK POSLIGUA
JULIO SAMANIEGO

SIMULATION 1
Monophasic inverter unplugged of the network with LC filter and
resistive load in the AC side and in the DC side a DC ideal source.
Analysis the harmonics content in the inductor current and the
voltage of the resistive load.
Diagram in Simulink power system

Modulating signal

 The load to be fed, has the next

characteristics:
Voltage: 50 Vrms.
Resistance: 3 Ohm

Voltage of DC source: 100 Vdc.

It is better have a modulating signal

less than the unit due the voltage
signal appear some constant in the
top of the signal when we put values
near the unit, for example (ma=1).

Modulating signal(ma)=50*sqr(2)/100
= 0,7071

Parameters

The switching frequency used was

5 Khz, with a freq less than this,
the out voltage was very pulsating,
for example with fs= 1 KHz.

Total Harmonic Distortion in voltage of resistive load

We can observe that the THD in
the voltage of the load has
harmonics in a high order, due
the switching pulses that
generate the signal.
Also we can see that it the TDH
of 0,76% is inside the range
recommended by the IEEE Std.
519, that says THD should be
less than 5%.
THD in Inductor Current
The filter in the line has a THD of
7,57%, when we selected a
inductance of major value we can
reduce this THD, but a big
inductance reflects more cost so we
could find a inductance that will be
near the limit for the THD in the
voltage.

Total harmonic distortion in voltage with

an inductance of 0,09e-3 H
With variation of - 0,41e3 H in the
inductance we are almost in the limit of
the THD (4,41%) but we can reduce costs
in the constitution of the filter. It also
depends the requirements (the sensibility)
of the load.
Graphics of the different variables

a) Van b) Vbn c) Vab

a) V_load b) I_load
b) c) I_dc_source

a) V_load, Vab
b) I_load, I_LR filter, I_C
c) modulating signal

SIMULATION 2
Three phasic inverter unplugged of the network with LC filter and
resistive load in the AC side and in the DC side a DC ideal source.
Analysis the harmonics content in the inductor current and the
voltage of the resistive load.
Diagram in Simulink power system

Modulating signal

Subsystem 2

The three phasic load to be fed, has the next

characteristics:
Voltage LN: 50 Vrms.
Resistance per phase: 3 Ohm

Voltage of DC source: 200 Vdc.

Parameters

In this case, a difference the previous case we selected a voltage so superior to the
peak grid voltage, it is because we could observe that the current in the DC source
was going to be bigger than the simulation 1 due the three phasic load (more power),
so the distortion in the output will be so high.
Example: With a DC Voltage of 100 V we obtain the next results.

Current in the DC source

Voltage in the load

In this case we obtain a
THD of 4,1 %, it is less than
the 5% of the norm but is
greater than the THD of
the stablished parameters
in
the
previous
slide(0,86%).

Total Harmonic Distortion in the voltage of

one phase

With the selected parameters we obtain

a TDH in the voltage of the load of
0,86%, this level of THD is very
acceptable and is less than the 5% of the
norm.
Also we can observe that the distortion
voltage is concentered in frequencies
with multiplies of 5000, with the mayor
value in the 5000, then it decreases for
the next values.
Total Harmonic Distortion in the current
line of one phase

In this case we can observe that the

inductive filter has a THD greater than
the voltage or the current in the source,
with 10,72 %, this filter has the same
characteristics of the harmonics that the
voltage, so we can say that when the
signal pass through this filter it
decreases the THD in the output.

Graphics of the different variables in stable state

a) V_load b) I_load c) I_filter

Voltage in the inverter

a) Van b) Vbn c) Vcn

Modulating signal

SIMULATION 3
Three phasic DC/AC converter plugged in the network with L filter and an ideal AC
source in the AC side and in the DC side a DC ideal current source.
Analysis of harmonics content in the current interchanged with the network.
Diagram in Simulink power system

Power stage

SPWM

 Parameters

In the parameters we considered a

harmonic signal that is adding the
modulating signal to be created.
This harmonic signal has a
frequency of 180 of three order
with an amplitude of 0,05.
The output voltage in the grid is of
120 V LN and the Vdc is of 350 V.
Then ma=(120)/(350/2)= 0,69.
The power angle is configured in
15 to transmit active power, so a
quantity of active current.

Graphics of the different variables in stable state

a) I grid b) I_dc

a) V_grid vs V_inverter b) I_grid c)

modulating signal

THD analysis in the Grid Current

With the harmonic signal of
third order we get a THD of
9,64 %, and we can observe
that the major component
of the distortion, effectively
is in this order of the
harmonic, and due the high
frequency by PWM we have
another
source
of
harmonics
in
high
frequency like 5000 Hz.