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Reference [[9] presents
presents
the switchig
path forpathfor current ripple ad,
frequency cufentrippe
hewitcingfreqenc thus,
and, tus, the series Foster model consisting of parallel RL blocks
only the desired frequencies pass through the filter. connected in series. The accuracy of the model increases as
resonance of the ivdamped usin the damping the number of the RL blocks increases. In this case, four RL
resistors Rd in parallel to the inductors Lf on the supply side. blocks were found sufficient. The fourth-order series Foster
A. Design concepts circuit is shown in Fig. 3. On the basis of Fig. 3, the
When designing an LCL-filter for an APF it should be impedance of the circuit is:
noted that an APF has a wide bandwidth compared to a 4
typical PWM rectifier, usually between 1 and 2.5 kHz. In ZL(o)= RdC + (1)
order to maintain a good performance in harmonic filtering,
the resonance frequency of the filter should be placed higher where co is the angular frequency.
than this. After the resonance frequency the attenuation of a Figs. 4 and 5 present equivalent circuits of the proposed
third-order filter increases by 60 decibels per decade. LCL-filter: Fig. 4 for space vector quantities and Fig. 5 for
LL zero sequence components. The underlined variables refer to
isfa sf ff ifa- space vectors and Zsf is the combined impedance of Lsf and
Rd. In addition, Zff, Zcf and Zffn1 respectively are the
Rdd IF cfa impedances of Lff, Cf and Lffl.
L Now, on the basis of Fig. 4, we can write the following
usbUstb
sfff
'-c Ufb
equation for the transfer admittance from Uf to isf:
o*'lllL
E 1 Uf R1 R2 R. R4
Fig. 2: Proposed LCL-filter configuration for four-wire APFs. Fig. 3: Fourth-order series Foster circuit.
;:Sf1 Lff+Lsf +3Lffn
!
Z Z Lf fres,z -21C Lsf Lff Cf + 3Lsf LffnCf
us Zcf C. Design procedure andfrequency analysis
The starting point in the design procedure ofthe LCL-filter
____ for the four-wire APF was the existing system rated at 5 kVA
using an L-filter as a supply filter. Both topologies had 5 mH
Fig. 4: Equivalent circuit of LCL-filter for space vector quantities. inductors in the phase legs. The size of the neutral wire filter
inductor was conditional on topology. A 5 mH inductor was
1sfz ffIk[ zused in the neutral leg of the four-leg topology and a 1 mH
s5f.. [ a < .
-inductor in the neutral leg of the three-leg topology.
F
,The idea was to expand the existing L-filter to LCL-filter
USz I | 2r UfZ by adding an LC front end on the supply side. To ensure that
I the harmonic filtering performance of the system with the
3Z ,/LCL-filter would be approximately at the same level as
before with the L-filter without the need to increase the
dc-link voltage level, the the LC front end should not
Fig. 5: Equivalent circuit of LCL-filter for zero sequence components. * sinificat ase the C
significantly increase i in
impedance in the compenst
e
compensation
current path. Thus, small 0.6 mH inductors LSf were selected
s-=-Zcf (2) on the supply side. This means that the total inductance
Uf A (LSf + Lff) in the compensation current path is now 5.6 mH,
where excluding the neutral wire.
The selected 0.6 mH and 5 mH inductors were modeled
A = Zff Zsf + ZffZcf + Zsf Zcf. (3) using the fourth-order Foster models presented earlier. The
Furthermore, if all the resistive terms are omitted, (2) can be data for the Foster models were obtained by measuring the
derived into the following form: impedance of 0.6 mH and 5 mH inductors between 50 Hz and
20 kHz in a laboratory. All the frequency response
-sf - - (4) measurements were conducted using Venable Model 3120
Uf s (LsfLff Cf) + s(Lff + Lf) frequency response analyzer, Venable VLA 1000 linear
where s is the Laplace operator. Now, the resonance amplifier, Tektronix TCPA300 amplifier and Tektronix
quantities can be written as TCP312 current probe. The Foster models were iteratively
followsr fitted using the measured data of four frequency points:
follows: 50 Hz, 500 Hz, 10 kHz and 20 kHz.
1 Lff +Lsf The filter capacitors Cf were selected based on the desired
fres,c3 2i LffLffC (5) resonance frequency. To ensure a sufficient bandwidth for
the APF, it was decided to set the resonance frequency of the
where subscripts a and : refer to the real and imaginary axis LCL-filter around 3 kHz. This was accomplished by
components of a space vector in the stationary reference selecting 5 iF capacitors as filter capacitors.
frame. In order to maximize the control bandwidth ofthe APF and
Similarly, on the basis of Fig. 5, the transfer admittance to avoid possible resonance related problems, the resonance
from ufz to isfz is: peak of the LCL-filter was damped with the damping
isfz -Zcf resistors Rd. When the damping resistors are placed in
parallel to the supply side inductors LSf, the smaller resistance
(6)
ufz B
value gives the greater damping. The best way to select the
where resistance value Rd is to examine the transfer admittance from
B = A + 3(ZcfZffn + ZsfZffn) (7) uf to sf. The aim is to get the magnitude of the transfer
admittance to be flat near the resonance frequency, but it
By omitting all the resistive terms, (6) can be derived into the should be noted that the attenuation at the stop band
following form: decreases as the resistance Rd decreases and, thus, a too small
1sfz -resistance value should not be used. The effect of the
Ufz resistance Rd on the transfer admittance is illustrated in Fig. 6.
(8) A good result can be achieved by selecting Rd= 33 Q2, as it
1 ~~~~~~canbe seen in Fig. 6.
s3 (L5sfLf Cf + 3LsfLffnCf ) + s(Lff + L5f + 3Lffn) . The transfer admittance of the proposed LCL-filter model
from Uf to is is shown in Fig. 7. The accuracy of the model
On the basis of (8), the resonance frequency for ' the zero
~~~~~~~was
. . verified by measuring the transfer admittance of the
sequence components can be written as follows:cntutdL -fte,wihsalohwnnFg.7
Jo
-20 0 -
-30 -10
-40 __-20_
Frequency -30 F
-50 __40
-50
-60_
-60 _
17031 10 10
2 3
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~10 10 10
4
frame, and z to a zero sequence component. In addition, calculated In the "cross coupling compensation" block as
subscript h refers to harmonics, o to fundamental frequency follows [10]:
quantities in the synchronous reference frame and L to the ufd Usd - ULd + s(Lff + Lsf )ifq (10)
LCL-filter. An asterisk (*) refers to a reference value.
The control system is based on the load current and
feedforward connection. The task of the control system is to
produce filter currents opposite to the harmonics sensed in Ufq Usq - ULq - s ff sf)!fd
= sf+ Ls (11)
the load currents. The neutral current is similarly where C3S is the fundamental angular frequency, and Usd and
compensated by producing a neutral current opposite to the usq respectively the direct and quadrature components of the
load neutral current. Before the control can be carried out, all supply voltage vector. If the three-phase supply is assumed to
the measured three-phase quantities are first transformed to be sinusoidal and balanced, Usq is zero and Usd equals the
the synchronous reference frame. The reference frame angle amplitude of the supply line-to-neural voltage. The last terms
p is determined with a phase locked loop by observing the in (10) and (11) are used for compensating the cross coupling
zero crossing of phase-a supply voltage. The current between the direct and quadrature components of the voltage
reference of the APF is generated using a prediction based reference.
current reference generation method [11]. Due to the capacitive currents drawn by the LCL-filter the
The APF dc-link voltage Udc is controlled with a active power filter current references are not realized
fundamental direct component of the current reference i*fdo, accurately. The capacitive current can be compensated by
which appears as a dc-component in the synchronous adding the fundamental current reference component i fqo to
I
fa
* |~~~~~~abcto lqz (
fd ud .. [
'Id
cotnpensationL dc fd A,:Tm -
~~T+
NIl 'Ldz* dc~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~c
Ufz =-ULZ + Ubal (13) Fig. 9: Measured load currents: (a) phase currents and (b) neutral current.
This forces the dc-link capacitor voltage balance to shift in
the desired direction. The voltage balance controller is not 15
needed in the control system of the four-leg topology and, 10
thus, the voltage reference u bat iS zero. -
-5
IV. SIMULATION AND EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS
The performance of the four-wire APF topologies with the -15
proposed LCL-filter was studied by computer simulations 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
and experimental tests. For comparison, the performance of (a) Time (ms)
the topologies with an L-filter consisting of inductors Lff and 15
Lff,1 was also studied. The system was rated at 5 kVA and its 10 r
parameters are presented in Table I. The simulations were S 5
done using Simulinkg linked to SIMPLORER. The i
experimental tests were conducted in a laboratory using a -5
microcontroller controlled four-wire APF prototype. The.T10
load used in the tests was an unbalanced and nonlinear load. 151 1 15 2 25 30 35 40
The measured phase and neutral current waveforms of the (b) Time (ms)
load are shown in Figs. 9a and 9b respectively.
For the three-leg topology, the simulated and measured 15
waveforms are shown in Figs. 10 and 1 Irespectively, and for 10
the four-leg topology, the simulated and measured < 5
waveforms are presented in Figs. 12 and 13 respectively. 0
Table II shows the fundamental components and total -10-
harmonic distortion (THD) of the simulated and measured ___
load andsupplycurrents. The simulation results are shown on 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
the left and experimental results on the right in each column (c) Time (ms)
TABLE I
SYSTEM PARAMETERS 10
< 5-
supply line-to-neutral voltage Us V
230V 0
supply frequencyf, 50 Hz
5-
APF side phase line inductor Lff 5 mH o
neutral wire inductor Lff11 (three-leg topology) 1 mH- -10-
neutral wire inductor Lff11 (four-leg topology) 5 mH -15 _ _
LCL-filter capacitor Cf 5 ~~~iF 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
supply side phase line inductor L5f 0.6 mUHd im is
damping resistor Rd 33 Q
dc-link capacitors Cl and C2 2.2 mF Fig. 10: Simulated supply currents compensated with three-leg topology
dc-link voltage reference u dc (four-leg topology) 700 V with L- and LCL-filter: (a) phase currents with L-filter, (b) neutral current
dcr-ln votgrernc Ud (thre-g toooy 75VAx with L-filter (C) phase currents with LCL-filter and (d) neutral current with
modulation frequencyfSw 8 kHzLC-itr
sampling interval T5 62.5 pis
10 r
15
l0
-5 < -5
-10 -1 C
-15 -1
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
(a) Time (ms) (b) Time (ms)
15 15
10 - i- -
o -5 0 -5
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
(c) Time (ms) (d) Time (ms)
Fig. 11: Measured supply currents compensated with three-leg topology with L- and LCL-filter: (a) phase currents with L-filter, (b) neutral current with
L-filter, (c) phase currents with LCL-filter and (d) neutral current with LCL-filter.
15 15
10 10 -
-15 - 0
5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
J -__ 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
(a) Time (ins) (b) Time (ins)
15 _j, , .,1
1-0- -r -
-10 -10 -
-15- -15
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
(c) Time (ms) (d) Time (ms)
Fig. 12: Simulated supply currents compensated with four-leg topology with L- and LCL-filter: (a) phase currents with L-filter, (b) neutral current with
L-filter, (c) phase currents with LCL-filter and (d) neutral current with LCL-filter.
in Table II. The THD values are calculated up to 2 kHz converters. The LCL-filter was analyzed in the frequency
(THD2kHZ) and up to 20 kHz (THD2OkHZ) The THD values of domain by using a transfer function model and by measuring
the neutral currents are calculated in relation to the mean the transfer admittance of the constructed LCL-filter with a
values of the fundamental phase current components. frequency analyzer. A realistic LCL-filter model was
The simulation and experimental results clearly show that obtained by modeling the inductors with fourth-order Foster
the proposed LCL-filter works well with both topologies, series models, which were fitted using the measured data.
efficiently suppressing the switching frequency current ripple The proposed LCL-filter was tested with two common
without impairing the harmonic filtering performance ofthe voltage source shunt four-wire APF topologies through
APF. Moreover,
current the simulated
r1pple, wh1c and measured
L-lSlaecommon phasle THD values in
ret with LCLfite
simulations and experimental
an d eta uretwt Citr tests. The experimental tests
Table II match each other very well, which proves the were conducted in a laboratory with a microcontroller
accuracy of the simulation models. controlled four-wire APF prototype. The simulation and
experimental results were compared with the results obtained
V. CONCLUSION with an L-type supply filter. The simulation and experimental
This paerpreented astudy f the sitabilty of. results indicated that the proposed LCL-filter works well
third-order LCL-filter for two common voltage source shunt wt ohfu-ieAFtplge n fiinl eoe
fourwir acivepowr flte tooloies Th ai wa to the switching frequency current ripple from the supply
replace a common L-type supply filter with an LCL-filter in currents without impairing the harmonic filtering
order to improve the suppression of the switching frequency pefrac fteAF hs tcnb ocue htwe
w i a properly designed the LCL-filter can replace an L-filter as a
15 15
o
0 r
5 ..
15 15
10 - '0
-
3 5 4 5
1 0- 1 0 -
-15 -15
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
(c) Time (ms) (d) Time (ms)
Fig. 13: Measured supply currents compensated with four-leg topology with L- and LCL-filter: (a) phase currents with L-filter, (b) neutral current with L-filter,
(c) phase currents with LCL-filter and (d) neutral current with LCL-filter.
TABLE II
FUNDAMENTAL COMPONENTS AND TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTION OF SIMULATED AND MEASURED WAVEFORMS
Load
Load Three-leg APF with
L-filter Three-leg APF with
LCL-filter Four-leg APF with
L-filter Four-leg APF with
LCL-filter
I, (A.) 6.91 6.56 6.45 6.31 6.46 6.31 6.32 6.24 6.31 6.34
phase-a THD2kHz(%) 25.04 24.54 2.24 2.58 1.52 2.02 2.02 2.82 1.74 2.18
THD20kHz(%) 25.04 24.54 12.82 17.52 4.39 4.26 9.29 9.55 3.31 3.66
IL (A ) 6.04 5.94 6.36 6.22 6.36 6.22 6.21 6.12 6.22 6.24
phase-b THD2kHz(%) 14.15 14.60 1.73 1.36 1.92 1.70 1.63 1.65 1.78 2.02
THD20kHz () 14.17 14.60 12.98 14.35 4.82 4.76 9.35 9.21 3.77 3.90
I, (A.) 6.08 5.77 6.32 5.85 6.35 5.85 6.25 5.79 6.27 5.93
phase-c THD2kHz(%) 12.88 13.09 1.88 1.52 2.06 2.01 1.98 2.02 2.16 2.46
THD20kHz (%) 12.90 13.09 12.92 13.02 4.90 5.00 9.65 9.96 4.23 4.25
THD2kHz(%) 35.99 35.33 2.90 2.54 1.86 2.80 1.79 2.02 2.13 2.62
neutral THD20kHz(%)
neutra
36.00 35.33 24.99 25.30 8.98 7.42 10.59 10.11 5.05 4.67
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