Novel Control Strategy for VSI and CSI Active Filters and Comparing These Two Types of Filters

Subject Areas : Active filter

Gholam Reza Arab ¹ , Somayeh Yarahmadi ² , Jafar Soltani ³

1 - Associate Professor - Department of Electrtical Engineering, Shahrekord University
2 - MSc - Department of Electrtical Engineering, Shahrekord University
3 - Professor - Department of Electrtical Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology

Received: 2014-05-14 Accepted : 2014-10-19 Published : 2014-12-01

Keywords: sliding mode control, Current Source Inverter, Active filter, voltage source inverter, non-linear load,

Abstract :

Recently to eliminate the harmonics and improve the power factor of the power networks, much attention has been attracted to active filters. The advantages of these filters are lower volume and their better compensating characteristics than the passive filters. In conventional sliding mode controllers, the source current waveform is fluctuated in near to zero values. In this paper, using a new sliding technique, lower Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) in source current is obtained and the current waveform is improved. As well as, two novel control strategies for two types of active filters, VSI and CSI is proposed and then these two types of filters are compared to reduce THD value of source current.The proposed controlled strategies are simulated by MATLAB/Simulink. The Simulation results confirm that the proposed strategies reduce the THD of source current more than other strategies, and active filter based on CSI has a better performance than active filter based on VSI with a dead time area (for avoiding short circuit of the source) in high powers.

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