This design has been proposed as aoutput signal is sent to the driver circuit of the

VSI for appropriate triggering of the switches.

The hysteresis band-width is a certain
percentage of the reference current generator
which determines the quality of the shaped
current. A narrower band enforces better
harmonic suppression of the supply current
but increases the switching frequency.
The charging control scheme is simple. The
output of the ferro-resonant charger is
rectified and the output is connected to the
battery module that is required to be charged.
Typically charge is applied for 1 hour, after
which the triac disconnects the supply, and
microprocessor based control is implemented
modification to a cost effective design [6] of
ferro-resonant charger, and can be applied as
a general solution to other designs (residential
and fast charging). Fig. 1 shows the original
schematic of the charger, on which the design
modification is suggested. The power circuit
schematic of the battery charger shows the
battery pack connected to the rectified output
of the secondary winding of a transformer. A
third winding (not shown) is connected to a
capacitor, which creates resonance with the
inductance of the transformer. The
microprocessor-based control uses a tnac as a
It would be time-consuming to apply this approach
for the Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) and each of
the 39 harmonics within the scope of [1]. It is also
questionable if the methodology can be extended
simply to all other harmonics. There is also
uncertainty in determining LV load emissions at high
harmonics. Single phase models cannot be used to
analyse the propagation of triplen harmonics which
must be unbalanced at the MV level where there is
no neutral connection. The approach is clearly
unsuited for a study of THD.
Instead the method has been applied only to the
original test system at several selected harmonics
across the range 2-40. It was found that the change in
the voltage profile with frequency could be
reasonably well approximated by a linear expression.
This frequency-dependent harmonic profile is
assumed to be suited to the other sets of power
system data and has been extended to all harmonics
and the THD, enabling Planning Levels to be
The issues and considerations associated with three-phase power harmonics are often
misunderstood. With the advent of power electronics and proliferation of non-linear
loads in industrial power applications, power harmonics and their effects on power
quality are a topic of concern. Currently in the United States, only 15 to 20% of the
utility distribution loading consists of non-linear loads. It is projected over the next
ten years that non-linear loads will comprise approximately 70 to 85% of the loading
on our nation's utility distribution systems.
The effects of single phase power harmonics and neutral conductors are often a source
of concern. Harmonics play an important role in single phase applications if the neutral
conductors are undersized, however single phase harmonics are associated with
phase-to-neutral loads and are not discussed in this document.
A harmonic is a component of a periodic wave having a frequency that is an integral
multiple of the fundamental power line frequency of 60 Hz. Harmonics are the multiple
of the fundamental frequency, as shown in Figure 1. Total harmonic distortion is
the contribution of all the harmonic frequency currents to the fundamental.