AN ADVANCED CURRENT CONTROL

STRATEGY FOR THREE PHASE SHUNT

ACTIVE FILTER

NARASARAOPET ENGINEERING COLLEGE NARASARAOPET

SUBMITTED BY

G. RAMESH BABU

Under the esteemed guidance of Y.RAJESH BABU M-tech,(PhD),

ABSTRACT

This project proposes an advanced control strategy to enhance

performance of shunt active filter.

The proposed control scheme requires only two current sensors at

the supply side and does not need a harmonic detector.

In order to make the supply currents sinusoidal, an effective

harmonic compensation method is developed with the aid of a
conventional proportional-integral (PI) and vector PI controllers.
The absence of the harmonic detector not only simplifies the control
scheme but also significantly improves the accuracy of the APF.

Furthermore, the total cost to implement the proposed APF becomes

lower.

CONTENTS

1.Proposed control scheme in Shunt Active Filter

2.Mathematical model of Shunt Active Power Filter
i)current controller
ii)DC voltage controller
3.Mathematical analysis of PI-VPI controller
4.Transfer function of PI-VPI controller
5.Mathematical model of four switch three phase
inverter(FSTPI)
6.Conclusion
7.References

1.ADVANCED
SCHEME
Shunt Active FilterCURRENT
with AdvancedCONTROLLER
controller

There are two loops one for controlling harmonic currents and other for dc
voltage regulation loop.

2.MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF SHUNT ACTIVE FILTER

BASIC SHUNT ACTIVE FILTER

Stationary abc frame

The phase-k dynamic equation of the filters model is given by the following
equation.

The value of dnk depends on the switching state n and the phase-k

The resulting transformed model in the synchronous orthogonal rotating

frame is given as follows

i)Harmonic current controller

The dynamics of the ac currents can be written as follows.

By using error signals and applying proportional integral compensation

Inner current controller as shown below

The control band width of PI controller is limited so it is not suitable for higher
harmonic controller.

ii)DC Voltage regulation

To maintain some voltage level across dc capacitor responsible for load

variations

The following fig shows the outer control loop of the dc voltage .

The resulting transfer function is

3.MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS PI-VPI CONTROLLER

Due to the limitation of control band width the PI controller is unable to

regulate the high frequency signals.

In order to regulate the supply currents to be sinusoidal the current control

must have the high gains at harmonic frequencies .

Which can be achieved by means of multiple resonant controllers tuned at

harmonic frequency.

These are implemented with two integrators

The disadvantage of resonant controller is to responsibility to regulate only

one harmonic component .

PI PLUS RESONANT CONTROLLER

PI plus Resonant Controller tuned at 6n multiples of fundamental

frequency.

The delay time caused by the effect of the APF and digital implementation
must be taken in to account if the higher harmonics are compensated.

The compensation term is added for eliminate delay time.

But the stability margins are reduced and undesired peaks are appear in the
closed loop frequency response.

VPI CONTROLLER

The above disadvantages can be eliminated by designing a new

controller that is vector PI controller(VPI).

VPI controller block diagram

Transfer function of VPI controller

The VPI controller is able to cancel the coupling term with the form
(1/s Lf+Rf)by selecting resonant gain as Krh=Kph(Rf/LF)
It is able to remove undesired peaks appearing in the closed loop
response with out demand of delay compensation

BLOCK DIAGRAM OF PI PLUSVPI CONTROLLER

PI+VPI controller

PI controller is used to regulate fundamental component and VPI controller

is used to compensate harmonic components.

The undesired peaks appear in the closed loop frequency response

preventing with pole zero cancelation capability with inductor Lf

Taking into account the Lf inductor model

4.TRANSFER FUNCTION WITH INDUCTOR

By taking Krh=Kph(Rf/Lf) and Ki1=Kp1(Rf/Lf) then transfer function is as

follows

From the above equation it is observed one pole and one zero is canceled.
Then the closed loop performance of current controller is improved

5.MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF FOUR SWITCH

THREE PHASE
INVERTER(FSTPI)

B4 inverter employs the four switches to generate two line to line

voltages Uab and Uca.

Ubc generated according to kirchhoffs voltage law from spilt phase

capacitor

DC link filter is big enough to keep constant value of Vdc/2 for both v1
andv2 voltages.

Four switching combinations leads to four voltage vectors presented shown

below

6.CONCLUSION

From the above discussion it can be observed that PI controller is

only used for limited range of frequencies(band width).So it is not
suitable for higher order harmonic compensation.

PI plus Resonant controller is used for compensating the harmonic

currents. But in the closed loop frequency response an undesirable
peaks are appeared.

The pole zero cancellation capability can be obtained with the help
of PI plus VPI controller then closed loop frequency response and
the stability of the system can be improved.

In this two leg three phase inverter can be used to reduce the over all
cost of the system.

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Systems, IEEE Std. 519-1992, 1992.
[2] Limits for Harmonic Current Emission, IEC 61000-3-2, 2001.
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and Applications to Power Conditioning, M. E. El-Hawari, Ed. New
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