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Control Strategy for Three-Phase PWM Boost

Rectifier Operating Under Different
SupplyVoltage Conditions
Asst.Prof.Dr. Turki Kahawish Hassan
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of AL-Mustansiriya
Baghdad, Iraq
[email protected]

Muntadher Kadhem Abdullah

Department of Electrical Engineering
University of AL-Mustansiriya
Baghdad, Iraq
[email protected]

Abstract:In this paper, a proposed control strategy is presented to improve the performance of the

pulse width modulation (PWM) boost type rectifier when operating under different supply voltage
conditions (balanced, unbalanced, and distorted three-phase supply voltages). The proposed control
strategy is divided into two parts, the first part is voltage controller and the second part is current
controller. In the voltage controller, Repetitive Controller (RC) is used to reduce the even order
harmonics in the regulated output dc voltage so small output capacitor (filter) is used instead of large
capacitor. RC also reduces the even order harmonics which appear in the reflected dc current (I MAX),
this leads to reduce the odd order harmonics which appear in the input currents. While in the current
controller, Enhanced Phase Locked Loop (EPLL) technique is used to obtain sinusoidal and balanced
three phases, to construct the reference currents, which are in phase with the fundamental supply
voltages. Therefore, the supply-side power factor is kept close to unity. A proportional controller is
used to give excellent tracking between the line and the reference currents. The complete system with
the proposed control strategy are simulated using Matlab/Simulink. The results for the complete
system using repetitive voltage controller are obtained and compared to the results of the system with
the conventional voltage controller (Proportional-Integral (PI) controller connected in series with a
Low Pass Filter (LPF)). The results with the repetitive controller show better response and stable
operation in the steady state under different input voltage conditions, as well as in the transient
response under changing the load condition.
Index Terms Enhanced Phase Locked Loop,Repetitive Controller,Three-Phase PWM Boost Rectifier,
Proportional-Integral controller.

I.

abnormal second order harmonic at the dc

output voltage, which reflects back to the
input causing third-order harmonic current
to flow. Next, the third-order harmonic
current causes a fourth-order harmonic
voltage on the dc bus, and so on. This
results in the appearance of even
harmonics at the dc output and odd
harmonics in the input currents. An attempt
was made to reduce low order harmonics at
the input and the output of the PWM Boost
Type Rectifier under unbalance input
voltages [1]. The authors in [2] used two
synchronous reference frames: a positivesequence current regulated by a

INTRODUCTION

The boost type PWM rectifier has

been increasingly employed in recent years
since it offers the possibility of a low
distortion line current withnear unity power
factor for any load condition. Another
advantage over traditional phase-controlled
thyristor rectifiers is its capability for
nearly instantaneous reversal of power
flow. Unfortunately, the features of the
PWM boost type rectifier are fully realized
only when the supply three phase input
voltages are balanced. It has been shown
that unbalanced input voltages cause an

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proportional integral (PI) controller in a

positive synchronous reference frame
(SRF), and a negative sequence current
regulated by a PI controller in a negative
SRF. In [3], a new control scheme is
proposed to minimize harmonic distortions
of the input current and dc-link voltage in
the converter. A hybrid digitalrepetitive
current controller (RC) is used to minimize
the line-side current harmonics and the dc
link voltage harmonics under the distorted
and unbalanced operating conditions [4].
But these strategies require a series of
frame transformation and calculation
which increase the complexity of
implementation. New control method for
input-output harmonic elimination of the
pulse width modulation(PWM) boost-type
rectifier under conditions of both
unbalancedinput voltages and unbalanced
input impedances is presented in [5]. But in
this method, hysteresis current controllers
are used to regulate the actual three-phase
currents, these controllers produce
drawbacks such as a variable switching
frequency and an irregularity of the
position of modulation pulses. These
drawbacks provide high current ripples,
acoustic noise, and difficulty in designing
of input filter.
In [6], a new method for control of
PWM rectifiers is presented. This method
is classified in Direct Power Control (DPC)
group among different control methods for
PWM rectifiers which uses Model
Predictive Control (MPC) and SVM. The
method also usesVirtual Flux (VF) vector
of the input voltage, which improves the
performance of the rectifier under
harmonic conditions of the networks, the
method has several advantages: simple, it
uses constant switching frequency, and
excellent step response. Alsothis method
has some disadvantages: the unbalanced
condition at the input voltages is not
discussed, only balanced and 5% level of
5th order harmonic distortion was
discussed. This level of distortion is very
low compared to the level used in this

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paper. Another disadvantage inthis method

is that it uses large input inductances as
well as large output capacitor.
In this paper, the proposed method
can be divided into two parts; the first part
is voltage controller (Repetitive Controller)
to produce the magnitude of the reference
currents (IMAX) without even order
harmonics. The second part is current
controller (Enhanced phase locked loops
are used) to produce pure and balanced
sine waves, these sine waves multiplied by
the output of the voltage controller (IMAX)
to obtain sinusoidal reference currents.
Finally proportional controllers are used to
force the line currents to follow these
sinusoidal references.
MODELING OF THREEPHASE PWM BOOST
RECTIFIER UNDER
BALANCED INPUT
VOLTAGE CONDITION

II.

The main circuit of the three phases

PWM ac to dc converter is shown in
Figure1. Three-phase line voltages and the
balanced input line currents are:
e1=Emsin(t)

(1a)

e2=Emsin(t 120)

(1b)

e3=Emsin(t 120)

(1c)

Assume unity power factor

i1=Imsin(t)

(2a)

i2=Imsin(t 120)

(2b)

i3=Im sin(t 120)

(2c)

Where Em (Im) and are amplitude

of the phase voltage (current) and angular
frequency, respectively. For phase 1: [7]
L

RL i1 =VAD = e1 (VDN

VNO) (3)

When switch S1 is ON and switch

S1' is OFF, the switching functionis:
d1=1

and

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VDN = i1 RS +Vo

(4)

Where RS is equivalent resistance

of a switching device.When switch S1' is
ON, the switching function is:
d1=0

and

'

d1 =1

+L

+L

+R(i1+i2+i3)=e1+ e2+ e3Vo*

(d1+d2+d3)+3VNO

(15)

0 = Vo(d1+d2+d3)+3VNO

and

VDN=i1RS

Vo

VNO =

(5)

(16)

Substitute
equation
(16)
in
equations (10), (11), and (12), the result
will be

Therefore,equation (3) becomes:

L
RL i1 = e1[(i1RS+Vo) d1+ (i1RS) d1'
+VNO]
(6)
Because either S1 or S1' is
conducting and only one of them is
allowed to conduct in any moment, i.e. :

R i1 = e1 us1

(17)

R i2 = e2 us2

(18)

d1 + d1'=1 so

R i3 = e3 us3

(19)

L
RL i1 = e1 [i1RS d1+Vo d1+ i1RS d1'
+ VNO]
(7)

Where
us1 = Vo (

(20)

L
RL i1 = e1 [i1 RS (d1+ d1')+Vo d1
+VNO]
(8)

us2 = Vo (

(21)

us3 = Vo (

(22)

RL i1+RS i1 = e1 [Vo d1+VNO] (9)

R i1 = e1 [Vo d1+VNO]

In the Figure1, the input line

current for each phase is multiplied by
switching function, then adding them to
result output current idc, i.e:

(10)

Where R=RL+RS, the total series

resistance in one phase. Similarly, for
phase 2 and 3: [7]

idc= i1d1 + i2d2 + i3d3

R i2 = e2 [Vo d2+VNO]

(11)

According to Figure 1, the output

current idc is equal to:

R i3 = e3 [Vo d3+VNO]

(12)

idc=ic + Io

For a three-phase system without

neutral line,
i1+i2+i3= 0

Where ic (C ) is the current of the

output capacitor while Io is the dc load
current (Io=
). Soanother differential

(13)

equation can be written as:

The sum of three phase supply is

e1+e2+e3= 0

(23)

C
= i1 d1+i2 d2+i3 d3
(24)

(14)

The voltage VNO can be obtained by

addingequations (10),(11),and(12)

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3) Only fundamental components of

switching functions and input currents are
taken into account (PWM switching
harmonics are not considered).
4) There is no phase difference between
fundamental components of the switching
functions and the input currents. Sothat the
fundamental component of the switching
functions can be written as

Figure1: Circuit of PWM rectifier

A block diagram of the PWM
rectifier with ABC model is presented in
Figure2.

df1= A1

(25)

df2= A2

(26)

df3= A3

(27)

And the unbalanced input currents

can be written as
i1=Im1sin(t)

(28)

i2=Im2sin(t 120)

(29)

i3=Im3sin(t 120)

(30)

The output dc current is

idc = .

(31)

The converter transfer function

vector
is composed of three switching
functions.[8]
= [ df1 df2 df3 ]

Figure2: PWM rectifier in ABC- model

III.

(32)

And the current vector is

ANALYSIS OF THREEPHASE PWM BOOST

RECTIFIER UNDER
UNBALANCED INPUT
VOLTAGE CONDITION

=[ ]

(33)

The three-phase unbalanced input

currents can be presented as a sum of two
balanced sets of positive and negative
sequence component.

In Figure1, it is assumed that the

PWM rectifier is supplied by unbalanced
input voltages but balanced input
impedances. The assumptions used in the
following derivation are
1) The system losses are very small and
can be neglected.
2) The switching functions used to
represent switching action of the converter
are unbalanced but contain no zero
sequence.

=[

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=[

The cross product (Tp in) and (Tn ip) yield

the abnormal second order harmonics
components.

(36)

Similarly the converter transfer

function can be decomposed into two
balanced sets of positive and negative
sequence components under unbalanced
voltages that is
(37)

=[

=[

(38)

Now from equation (34) to equation

(39), the resultant output current in
equation (31) under unbalanced input
voltages becomes [8]
(40)

idc =Tp ip+Tp in+Tn ip+Tn in

(41)

(42)

Tn in =

(43)

Tp in =

(44)

Tn ip =

(45)

idc =

Where
Idc =

(48)

ish=

(49)

Io = idc

(50)

Io = Idc + ish

(51)

Vo = Ro Io

(52)

Vo = Ro[Idc + ish
Vo=

(53)
+

(54)

Equation (41) represents the

general expression for the converter output
current idc under unbalanced voltages in
term of positive and negative sequence
components of the converter transfer
function
and
the
input
currents
respectively.
Tp ip =

(47)

Where Vo and Ro are the output dc

load voltage and the load resistance

(39)

idc = (Tp + Tn) (ip + in)

idc = Idc + ish

Vo = Vdc + vsh

(55)

Due to the unbalance in the input

voltages, the output dc voltage contains dc
term (Vdc) and ac term (vsh). For a desired
level VREF, a controller is used to regulate
the output dc voltage. Due to the existence
of the harmonic voltage (vsh) in Vo, the
output current of the voltage controller
(IMAX) will contain dc term (I) and ac term
(Ic
) as shown below
IMAX= I +Ic

(56)

IMAX is used as magnitude for the

reference currents sothat forphase1, the
reference current is

ir1 = IMAX
(46)

ir1 = I

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ir1=I

(57)

It is implied from this analysis that

the unbalance in the input voltages leads to
appearance of second order harmonic (100
Hz for the 50 Hz supply) in the output dc
voltage (vsh), which causes third order
harmonic (150 Hz for the 50 Hz supply) in
the input current (see equation (57)). This
interaction continues and results in the
appearance of even order harmonics at the
dc link voltage and odd order harmonics in
the input currents.
IV.

CONTROL STRATEGY

After knowing the types of the

dominant harmonics in the output (second
order harmonic) and in the input (third
order harmonic), a control strategy is
needed to reduce these harmonics. The
proposed control strategy is divided into
two parts, the first part is a voltage
controller and the second part is a current
controller. Figure 3 shows the control
strategy block diagram.

inequation (56). This leads to the reduction

of the third order harmonics in the
reference currents inequation (57), and
reduces the total harmonic distortions
(THDs) for these references.To achieve
these objectives, there are several control
schemes have been proposed based on the
stationary frame and the rotating frame
methods. However, most of them only
consider regulation of the PWM boost type
rectifier under slight to medium levels of
imbalance. In order to acquire these
objectives under extremely unbalanced and
distorted input voltages, a Repetitive
Controller (RC) is used. According to the
internal model principle (IMP), zero error
tracking of any reference input, in steadystate, can be accomplished if a generator of
the reference input is included in a stable
closed-loop system. For example, a type 1
closed-loop system with an integrator ( )
[or
in discrete time domain], i.e., the
generator of unit step function, in the loop
offers tracking of a step input with zero
steady state error. Repetitive control (RC)
is a special case of the internal model
principle in control systems with periodic
signals [9]. Figure 4 shows the structure of
the repetitive controller.

Figure3:Overall control strategy block

diagram

Figure 4: Repetitive controller

The transfer function

repetitive controller is:

A. Voltage Controller
The first objective of this voltage
controller is to reduce the second order
harmonic in the output dc voltage (less
than 5% of Vo) inequation (55), and the
second objective is to reduce the second
order harmonics in the reflected IMAX

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of

Grc(s) =
Where Krc is the gain and To =

the
(58)
, fo

is the fundamental compensation harmonic

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Grc(s)
[

Grc(s)=

]
[

]]

Grc(s) =

(61)
]

(59)

Where

According to the properties of the

exponential function [10]

Mathematically, RC is equivalent to
parallel combination of proportional
controller, integral controller, and many
resonant controllers, as shown in Figure 5.
[11]

If s = x

, where

, so

].
Figure 5: Equivalent form of RC controller

Hence, Figure 5 shows that the

transfer function of the repetitive scheme
[right-hand side of equation (61)] can be
considered as a bank of infinite number of
resonant filters, all connected in parallel.

], each x =

so

B. Current Controller
The objectives of the current
controller are: to construct the reference
currents by using Phase Locked Loop
(PLL) technique, and to achieve good
tracking between the actual and the

[
]

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reference
currents
by
employing
proportional
controller
only.
The
components of the current controller will
be discussed in details in the following
sections.
-

Enhanced Phase Locked Loop

(EPLL):

The EPLL enhances the standard

PLL by removing its main drawback that is
the presence of double-frequency errors. It
achieves this task by means of estimating
the amplitude of the input signal. Thus, in
addition to removing the ripples, the EPLL
provides an estimate of the input signal
magnitude and a filtered version of the
input signal. This makes the EPLL function
as a filter and as a controller too. The block
diagram of the EPLL is shown in Figure 6.
The EPLL comprises a PLL (shown in the
box on the bottom of Figure 6) and also a
branch that generates a signal y that is the
filtered version of the input signal u. Thus,
Y estimates the peak value of the input
signal, and estimates its phase angle. The
frequency is estimated at . The signal S is
unity sinusoidal signal in phase with the
input signal, and this represents a stable
synchronizing reference. [12]

Figure 6: EPLL block diagram

Assuming that the steady situation
(i.e., Y = U and = ) is stable, the highfrequency term approaches zero as the
system approaches to the steady situation.
This means that the high- or doublefrequency term keeps being removed from
the loop and the frequency and phase angle
estimations will carry no double-frequency
ripple as they approach their steady values.
The output of the top multiplier in Figure 6
is equal to
x=e sin =(U sin Y sin ) sin

Assume (u=U sin , where = )

and (y = Ysin). Obviously, when (Y = U
and = ), the EPLL is in a steady
situation, and the error signal e = (u y) is
zero. If this steady situation is stable, then
it means that the EPLL approaches the
correct solution. For (u = U sin ) and (y =
Y sin), the error signal is (e = u y) = (U
sin Y sin ).The output of phase
detector (PD) (the multiplier in PLL) in
Figure 6 is equal to

As the system approaches the

steady condition, the high frequency term
approaches zero. Therefore, there will be
no double-frequency ripple on the
estimated peak value.The selection of the
parameters in Figure 6 (1, 2, and 3)
depends on the following observation:
- Increasing the value of 1 will
increase the speed of estimating of
the magnitude. However, it creates
oscillations in the response. There
is a tradeoff between speed and
accuracy (or smoothness).
- Decreasing 1, 2, and 3 yield an
estimation of the peak, and phase
which is insensitive/robust to
theundesirable variations and noise
in the input signal.

z = e cos = (U sin Y sin) cos

z=

(63)

(62)

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Finally, the output of the EPLL(S

in Figure 6) will be pure unit sinusoidal
and synchronized with the voltage in each
phase, therefore the reference currents are:
(64)
(65)
(66)
-

, so the closed loop

transfer function becomes

Proportional Controller:
(67)

Theblock diagram of the current

control loop shown in Figure 7, gains and
time constants associated with various
elements of the this block diagram are as
follow

Figure 7: Block diagram of the current

control loop.
e1
us1
Kip
KPWM
TRL

source voltage
converter input voltage
gain of the P controller
gain of the PWM block
time constant of the plant =

KRL
i1
ir1

gain of the plant =

line current
reference current

Where Te =
V.

SIMULATION RESULTS

The operation of the three-phase

PWM boost-type rectifier under severe
unbalanced and distorted operating
conditions has been simulated in
MATLAB
Simulink
by
using
SimPowerSystems toolbox. Five different
cases have been selected to verify
feasibility and performance of the new
control method (with RC). The converter
operates at near unity power factor with a
stable behavior in spite of level of
imbalance and distortion of the input
conditions. The main electrical parameters
of the power circuit and control data are
given in Table 1.
Table 1 : Electrical parameters of power
circuit and control data
Switching
Frequency(FS)

10000Hz

Output dc
voltage
Vo

300V

Resistance of
0.01

Inductance of
reactors (L)

5 mH

Nominal
input
voltage
(V)
supply
frequency

dc-bus
capacitor (C)

480 F

Kip

133

Load
resistance Ro

100

1, 2, 3

18,0.1,0.1

reactor(RL)

Forward transfer function =

The closed loop transfer function is

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The cases are:

CASE 1
In this case, the operation of the
three-phase PWM boost rectifier is
simulated under balanced input voltages
condition. Figure 8 shows three-phase
input voltages condition of this case, where
Em1=Em2=Em3=120V. Figure 9 show the
steady-state three-phase input currents and
Figure 10 shows the output dc voltage
when using RC.
Figure 10: Output dc voltage when using
RC in case1
CASE 2
If the input
voltages
are
Em1=190V, Em2=120V, and Em3=70V as
shown in Figure 11, then the input currents
obtained when using RC are shown in
Figure 12. The negative sequence current
in Figure 12 is 0.02705A, and the third
order harmonic currents in each phase are
0.01A, 0A, and 0.01A, while the THDs are
1.96%, 1.98%, and 2.04% respectively.
Figure 8: Input voltages of case1

Figure 11: Unbalanced input voltages of

case2

Figure 9: Input line currents when using

repetitive controller (RC) in case1

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Figure 14: Input voltages of case3

Figure 12: Input currents obtained when

using RC in case2
Figure 13 shows the output dc
voltage of this case, the second order
harmonic voltage is equal to (5.62V peakto-peak (P.P)) when RC is used.The power
factor obtained for this case is 0.9874.

The THDs for the input currents are

1.94%, 2.03%, and 2.15% respectively,
while the 3rd order harmonics are 0A,
0.01A, and 0.01A. The 5th order harmonics
in these currents are 0.02A, 0.03A, and
0.04A respectively.The second order
harmonic in the output dc voltage is (3.54V
P.P). The power factor for this case is
0.912.

Figure 13: Output dc voltage obtain when

using RC in case2
CASE 3:

Figure 15: Input line currents obtained

when using RC in case3.

In this case, a 5th order harmonic of

25% distorts unbalanced input voltages
(Em1=157V, Em2=120V, and Em3=85V).
Figure 14 shows the input voltages of this
case, while the input currents obtained
when using RC in this case are shown in
Figure 15. Figure 16 shows the output dc
voltage.
Figure 16: Output dc voltage obtained
when using RC in case3.

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CASE 4:
In this case, a 7th order harmonic of
25% distorts unbalanced input voltages
(Em1=157V,Em2=120V,and
Em3=85V).
Figure 17 shows the waveforms of the
input voltages of this case. Figure 18
shows the input line currents, while Figure
19 shows the output dc voltage.

Figure 19: Output dc voltage obtain when

using RC in case4
CASE 5:
In this case, unbalanced input
voltages Em1=157V, Em2=120V, and
Em3=85V are considered, these voltages
are distorted by a 5th harmonic of 20% and
a 7th harmonic of 20%. Figure 20 shows
the waveforms of the input voltages.

Figure 17: Waveforms of the input

voltages of case4

Figure 18: Input currents obtained when

using RC in case4
The THDs for the input currents in
Figure 18 are 1.97%, 1.97%, and 2% for
the three phases respectively, while the 7th
order harmonic is 0.02 A for each phase.
The obtained power factor for this case is
0.9573.

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Figure 20: Waveforms of the input

voltages of case5
Figure 21 shows the input line
currents obtained when using RC. The
THDs for these currents are 1.99%, 1.89%,
and 2.07% respectively, while the third
order harmonic in each phase current is
0A. Figure 22 shows the output dc voltage
when using RC, the second order harmonic
is (5V P.P.). The power factor obtained for
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(increase in the output dc voltage) and this

oscillation is damped after 130 msec.
The ac input line current reaches to
the steady state (stable at 5A) in six cycles,
around 120 ms.

Figure 21: Input line currents obtained

when using RC in case 5

Figure 23: Simulation results of the output

dc voltage and ac line current when using
RC under changing the load
All the results of the output dc
voltage that are mentioned above show
excellent voltage regulation at steady state
and transient conditions. The output dc
voltage tracks the reference dc voltage with
small ripple (less than 6V P.P) at steady
state. While the oscillation in the output dc
voltage is no more than 6% for transient
condition (step change in load). Now, the
conventional control method (Proportional
Integral (PI) controller with a Low Pass
Filter (LPF)) is compared with the RC
under supplying unbalanced input voltages
(case2) and under changing the load. The
cutoff frequency of LPF is 50 Hz and the
parameters of the PI controller are Kvp=1
and Kvi=66, where Kvp is the proportional
gain and Kvi is the integral gain of the
voltage controller.
Figure 24 shows the dc current IMAX
when the input supply voltages are
Em1=190V, Em2=120V, and Em3=70V as
shown in Figure 11 (case2).

Figure 22: Output dc voltage obtained

when using RC in case5
For all cases, it is noticed that the
output dc voltage requires 140ms (settling
time) to be stable at the beginning of the
operation within a variation of 6%. Figure
23 shows the dc link voltage and the ac line
current with using RC when the load is
changed from 100 to 50 at 0.6 sec and
back to 100 at 0.8 sec from starting
time.In increasing the load,it is clear that
an oscillation in the dc link voltage is
occurred within 8% (decrease in the output
dc voltage), and it is damped after 85 msec
from the instant of increasing the load. The
ac line current (increased from 5A to 10A)
also reaches to the steady state (stable at
10A) in two cycles, around 40ms. When
the load returns to 100 , the oscillation in
the output dc voltage is within 9%

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Figure 24: IMAX obtained when using the

conventional method

Figure26: Output dc voltage obtained when

using the conventional method

The second order harmonic in this

current is 0.5A (1A P.P), this leads for
appearing a third order harmonic in the
input currents and makes THDs for these
currents are higher than 5%. Figure 25
shows the waveforms of the three-phase
input currents with using the conventional
controlled method and when the input
voltages in Figure 11 are used.

Figure 27 shows the ac line current

and the output dc voltage when using LPF
with PI controller under load change
condition. So that when the load is
increased at 0.6 sec from starting time, the
ac line current requires six cycles (120ms)
to reach the steady state. An oscillation
occurs at the output dc voltage and this
oscillation is damped after 130 msec from
the instant of increasing the load. The load
returns to 100 at 0.8 sec from starting the
operation, this causes an oscillation in the
output dc voltage but this oscillation is
damped after 160 ms. While the ac line
current requires ten cycles to be stable,
around 200 ms.

Figure 25: Input currents obtained when

using the conventional method and under
unbalanced supply voltage level in case2
Figure 26 shows the output dc
voltage Vo, the second order harmonic in
this voltage is 8.6V (P.P). This Figure
shows that the output dc voltage enters the
steady state after 2.6 sec from starting time
of operation.

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Figure 27: Simulation results of dc voltage

and ac line current when using LPF and PI
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Table 2 shows the ripple in the

output dc voltage, the negative sequence
current, and the third order harmonic in the
input line currents when RC and LPF with
PI controller are used. Table 3 shows
THDs when using the conventional method
and Table 4 shows THDs when using the
proposed method.
Table 2: Third order harmonics, output
ripple, and negative sequence current
obtained for both conventional and RC
methods when the level voltages in case 2
are used
RC

3rd
order(A)

i1

i2

i3

0.0
1

0.0
1

Conventional
method
i1
i2
i3
0.25

0.25

0.25

Ripple(P.P)
5.62 V

8.6 V

0.026

0.271

Negative

Table 4 : THDs obtained when using the

proposed method
Proposed method

CASE1

THD%
of phase1
1.93

THD%
of phase2
1.93

THD%
of phase3
2.05

CASE2

1.96

2.01

1.98

CASE3

1.94

2.03

2.15

CASE4

1.97

1.97

CASE5

1.99

1.89

2.07

It can be seen from these tables that

when using the proposed method (RC), the
THDs in the input line currents, the
negative sequence currents, and the second
order harmonic in the output dc voltage are
less, in comparing to their values when
using the conventional method (LPF with
PI controller).
Figure 28 shows the output dc
voltage when using the proposed method.
In this Figure, the reference output dc
voltage is changed from 300V to 400V at
0.3 sec from starting time and from 400V
to 350V at 0.6 sec.

sequence
current (A)

Table 3 : THDs obtained when using the

conventional method
Conventional method

CASE1

THD%
of phase1
1.78

THD%
of phase2
1.75

THD%
of phase3
1.83

CASE2

6.13

6.25

CASE3

3.57

2.93

3.27

CASE4

3.64

3.18

3.91

CASE5

4.11

3.58

3.98

Figure 28: changing the output reference

dc voltage when using the proposed
method
Figure 29 shows the changing of
the reference output dc voltage when using
the conventional method.

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Figure 29: changing the output reference

dc voltage when using the conventional
method

Figure 31: Output dc voltage obtained

when using RC
THDs for the input line currents in
Figure 30 are 1.99%, 2%, and 2.05%.
While the power factor is 0.9915 and the
second order harmonic in the output dc
voltage in Figure 31 is 5.64V. So the
performance of PWM rectifier when using
RC is the same with and without adding
inductor (3mH) to the resistive load
(100).

From Figures 28 and 29, the

oscillation in the output dc voltage within
6% when using the proposed method,
while 28% when using the conventional
method. Therefore, the proposed method
produces excellent performance with using
small value of the output capacitor and
producing excellent input-output harmonic
elimination. To improve the performance
of the conventional method, the value of
the output capacitor must be larger.
Finally, Figure 30 and Figure
31show three-phase input line currents and
the output dc voltage with using RC when
inductor (3mH) is added to the resistive
load which its value is 100 under
supplying unbalancedinputvoltages in case
2.

VI.

Conclusions

This paper proposed a new control

strategy (RC is used in the voltage
controller, and EPLL with proportional
controller are used in the current
controller) on a three-phase PWM boost
rectifier, to achieve input-output harmonic
reduction under different input supply
voltage conditions. It is concluded from the
analysis of the PWM rectifier that when the
input supply voltages are unbalanced a
second order harmonic appears at the
output dc voltage and this result in a third
order harmonic in the input currents. The
performance of reduction these harmonics
for both the proposed method and the
conventional method is evaluated. The
proposed control method (RC) uses small
output capacitor, this makes the system is
smaller in size, improves the transient
response under the disturbances and
decreases the cost of the system. In
addition, the proposed method produces
less second order harmonic in the reflected

Figure 30: Input currents obtained when

using the proposed method and under
unbalanced supply voltage level in case2

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dc current IMAX, this reduces the third order

harmonic in the input currents and
improves the THDs (less than 5%), less
third order harmonic in the input currents
results in reducing the second order
harmonic in the output dc voltage. While if
the conventional method uses small output
capacitor, IMAX has higher second order
harmonic and this makes the THD higher
than 5% and more harmonics will exist in
the output dc voltage. Simulation results in
this paper are discussed in the transient
response under changing the load condition
and in the steady state response under
different input voltage conditions. In the
steady state response, five different cases
were performed to verify the feasibility of
PWM rectifier with the proposed control
strategy.The advantages of using the
proposed method are:
1- Balanced three-phase sinusoidal
input currents.
2- THDs are less than 5% for each
phase.
3- The power factor is kept close to
unity.
4- The output dc voltage can be
regulated at any desired level.
The transient response of the input
line current under changing the load when
using the proposed control method requires
two cycles (40 ms) to be stable when the
load is increased from 100 to 50 and
requires five cycles (100 ms) when the load
back to 100 . While with the
conventional method, the ac line current
requires six cycles (120 ms) to be stable
when the load is increased and ten cycles
(200 ms) when the load back to 100 .
Finally, the results in the steady state
response and in the transient response are
better when using the proposed control
method.

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