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Abstract: - A circuit of a multi-phase active power filter based on multi-stage inverter architecture was
introduced. The paper is focused on building the MATLAB / Simulink model of an AC power supply system
including a single-phase active power filter with a two-stage inverter. Each stage of the filter uses the pulsewidth modulation (PWM) method. The results confirmed high efficiency of such a compensating circuit. The
presented model will be used for the verification of the bridge-element concept, enabling computer modelling
of multi-phase bridge converters, for any number of electrical phases.
Key-Words: - Electric power supply system, Active power filter, Mathematical modelling, Multi-stage
inverter, Power quality, Electromagnetic compatibility.
1 Introduction
In the near future, multi-phase systems will be
considered as design alternatives during the variant
design of electric power supply systems. Potential
applications of multi-phase systems can be found
e.g. among independent power supply systems in
aircrafts, in ships, and among those using wind
power. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a
modelling theory for p-phase independent power
supply systems, which is valid for all values of
p = 1, 3, 5, 7, . This would enable computeraided design and power quality analysis of power
supply systems consisting of elements with different
number of phases in feeding lines.
Results of PSIM analysis of a multi-stage
inverter using three-state converters for a singlephase active power filter application were provided
in [1]. However, increasing the number of phases in
the electric power supply system, p, leads to
multiple increase of the number of bridge elements,
found in active power filters which are based on
multi-stage inverter architecture. For modelling of
such systems a bridge-element (B-element) concept
was developed and introduced in [2] and [3]. It
enables easy building of mathematical models of
multi-phase bridge converters, independently of the
number of phases, and following integration of them
into a p-phase electric power supply system model.
This paper presents a general circuit of a multiphase active power filter based on a multi-stage
inverter, with each stage using the pulse-width
modulation
(PWM)
method.
Mathematical
Proceedings of the 5th WSEAS Int. Conf. on Power Systems and Electromagnetic Compatibility, Corfu, Greece, August 23-25, 2005 (pp44-48)
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TR1
TR3
TR2
TR4
B12
B1k
B12
T11
B22
T21
T1p
Bp2
T22
Bk2
Tk1
B1p
T12
T2p
Bpk
Tk2
Tkp
Bk +1
Lc1
S1
S3
S2p-1
L1
L2
Lp
Lc2
S2
S4
S2p
B1
TR1
TR3
TR2
TR4
T1
B2
T2
B3
Lc1
S1
S3
L1
L0
Lc2
S2
S4
Proceedings of the 5th WSEAS Int. Conf. on Power Systems and Electromagnetic Compatibility, Corfu, Greece, August 23-25, 2005 (pp44-48)
Proceedings of the 5th WSEAS Int. Conf. on Power Systems and Electromagnetic Compatibility, Corfu, Greece, August 23-25, 2005 (pp44-48)
4 Conclusion
The general circuit of a multi-phase active power
filter based on a multi-stage inverter with PWM was
introduced. Mathematical modelling results obtained
for the example of a single-phase active power filter
with a two-stage inverter, confirmed high efficiency
of the studied compensating circuit. The
MATLAB / Simulink model of the AC power
supply system including the active power filter will
Current, A
3
2
1
0
-1
-2
-3
-4
0,10
0,11
0,12
0,13
0,14
0,15
0,16
0,17
0,18
0,19
0,20
0,16
0,17
0,18
0,19
0,20
0,16
0,17
0,18
0,19
0,20
Time, s
(a),
Current, A
3
2
1
0
-1
-2
-3
-4
0,10
0,11
0,12
0,13
0,14
0,15
Time, s
(b)
4
3
Current, A
2
1
0
-1
-2
-3
-4
0,10
0,11
0,12
0,13
0,14
0,15
Time, s
(c)
Proceedings of the 5th WSEAS Int. Conf. on Power Systems and Electromagnetic Compatibility, Corfu, Greece, August 23-25, 2005 (pp44-48)
Acknowledgement
The authors would like to acknowledge financial
support for this publication received from The Royal
Swedish Academy of Sciences, within the project
Mathematical modelling of independent power
supply systems for power quality and EMI
robustness.
400
300
Voltage, V
200
100
0
-100
-200
-300
-400
0,10
0,11
0,12
0,13
0,11
0,12 0,13
20
2,0
0,14 0,15
Time, s
Time, s
0,16
0,17
0,18
0,19
0,20
1,5
Current, A
1,0
0,5
0,0
-0,5
-1,0
-1,5
-2,0
0,10
0,14
0,15 0,16
Time, s
315
Before
After
310
305
20
15
10
5
0
100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000 1100 1200
Frequency, Hz
1,1
1,0
Before
After
0,6
0,5
0,4
0,3
0,2
0,1
0,0
100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000 1100 1200
Frequency, Hz
References:
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Voltage Source Active Power Filter, Based on
Multi-Stage Converter and Ultracapacitor DCLink, Proc. of IEEE Industrial Electronics
Conference, IECON'2003, Nov. 2-6, 2003,
Roanoke, Virginia, USA, pp. 2300 - 2305
[2] V.F. Belov, Computer-aided EMC Design for
Autonomous Power Conversion Systems,
Mordovian State University Press, Saransk,
1993 (in Russian).
[3] V. Belov, I. Belov, V. Nemoykin, A.
Johansson, P. Leisner, Computer Modelling
and Analysis of EMC in a Multi-phase
Electrical System, Proc. of National
Conference
in
Computational
Electromagnetics, EMB04, Gteborg, Oct 1819, 2004, pp. 294-301.