ECE 485

Topics in renewable energy

Electrical Engineering Department
By:
Dr. Abdulrhman Alshaabani
Filtering Systems in Rectifier
Circuits
Inductive-input DC Filters
Capacitive-input DC Filters
Inductive-input DC Filters
A simple inductive-input dc filter shown in figure a, the ripple is reduced by the factor

The inductive-input dc filter shown in figure b, the amount of reduction in the ripple voltage
can be estimated as
Inductive-input DC Filters
Voltage and Current Waveforms of Full-wave
Rectifier with Inductor-input DC Filter
Critical inductance
In the case of single-phase full-wave rectifiers, the critical inductance can be found as

In the case of poly-phase rectifiers, the critical inductance can be found as

where m is ratio of the lowest ripple frequency to the input frequency, e.g. m = 6 for a
three-phase bridge rectifier.
Determining the Input Inductance for a
Given Ripple Factor
In practice, the choice of the input inductance depends on the required ripple factor of the output
voltage. The ripple voltage of a rectifier without filtering can be found by means of Fourier Analysis.
 Capacitive-input DC Filters
A full-wave rectifier with capacitor-input dc filter is
presented

Fig. Voltage and current waveforms of the full-wave

rectifier with capacitor-input dc filter.
Cont.
If the peak-to-peak ripple voltage is small, the output ripple voltage can be approximated as

The average output voltage 𝑉 is given by

The rms output ripple voltage Vac is approximately given by