power system Harmonic compensation with shunt active power filter under non-ideal mains voltage

This paper presents a new control algorithm for an active power filter (APF) to compensate harmonic and reactive power of a 3-phase thyristor bridge rectifier under non-ideal mains voltage scenarios. Sensing load current, dc bus voltage and source voltages compute reference currents of the APF. APF driving signals are produced with these signals via a hysteresis band current controller. Matlab/simulink power system toolbox is used to simulate the proposed system. The proposed method’s performance is compared with conventional instantaneous power (p–q) theory. The simulation results are presented and discussed showing the effectiveness of the control algorithm. The proposed algorithm is found quite satisfactory to compensate the reactive power and harmonics under non-ideal mains voltage conditions. The increased performance of the ctive power filter under different non-sinusoidal mains voltage and dynamic load conditions are extensively demonstrated.