Power Quality Improvement of Synchronous Generators Using an Active Power Filter

Al Hussein Mohammed Abu-Jalala; Tom Cox; Chris Gerada; Mohamed Rashed; Tahar Hamiti; Neil Brown

doi:10.1109/TIA.2018.2828789

Power Quality Improvement of Synchronous Generators Using an Active Power Filter

Al Hussein Mohammed Abu-Jalala, Tom Cox, Chris Gerada, Mohamed Rashed, Tahar Hamiti, Neil Brown

Nottingham Electrification Centre

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Abstract

Active power filters (APF) are used to improve power quality and are commonly connected in parallel with the load at the point of common coupling. They are used to compensate for harmonics from nonlinear loads, for reactive power compensation, and/or balancing mains currents. This paper will investigate the effect of using an APF to improve the output power quality of a simplified synchronous generator (SSG) with distorted back EMF. A MATLAB/Simulink model for the SSG is built to simulate all the system, the APF, and the proposed generator. Using an APF, simulation, and experimental results show significant improvements in generator output current and reduced the total harmonic distortion in the system.

Original language	English
Article number	8341736
Pages (from-to)	4080-4090
Number of pages	11
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
Volume	54
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TIA.2018.2828789
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2018

Keywords

Active power filter (APF)
four-leg converter
skewless generator
synchronous generator

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Control and Systems Engineering
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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