PQ DQ Based Shunt Active Power Filter
PQ DQ Based Shunt Active Power Filter
doi:10.15199/48.2021.09.17
Streszczenie. Na jakość energii wpływają głównie wszelkie odchylenia napięcia, prądu lub częstotliwości, które powodują uszkodzenie,
niesprawność lub awarię sprzętu końcowego. Obciążenia nieliniowe, takie jak urządzenia energoelektroniczne, są głównymi przyczynami
problemów z jakością energii. W artykule porównaliśmy teorię DQ i PQ w celu sterowania bocznikowym filtrem mocy czynnej za pomocą technik
histerezy i PWM przy różnych obciążeniach nieliniowych (prostowniki sterowane i niesterowane) pod względem stopnia poprawy THD, jakości
napięcia i strat przełączania. MATLAB / Simulink został wykorzystany jako narzędzie symulacyjne do uzyskania wyniku dla tego artykułu.
(Bocznikowy aktywny filtr mocy oparty na PQ i DQ z technikami PWM i histerezy)
Keywords: shunt active power filter(SAPF), total harmonic distortion(THD), power quality, PQ and DQ theory.
Słowa kluczowe: filtr bocznikowy, jakość energii, obciążenia nieliniowe.
I
2
(1) THD% n
* 100
I 1
where: I is the electrical current, and n is the harmonic order
(2, 3, 4, 5,…)
THD is increasing day to day due to the widespread use
of non-linear loads [1]. Such as uncontrolled and controlled
bridge rectifiers, phase-controlled converters, speed-
controlled motor drives, televisions, led lamps, personal
desktops, and uninterruptible power supplies(UPSs) [2].
These harmonics have some effects like reduction in a
power factor, decrease in efficiency, power system voltage Fig.1. shunt active power filter.
fluctuations, communications interference, circuit breaker
malfunction, equipment heating, and breakdown and harm. Many research works are conducted to improve the
Therefore harmonics can be considered as a pollutant that power quality depending on THD in the literature. The
pollutes the entire power system [3]. Traditionally passive authors in [9] presented SAPF based on (dq0) detecting
filters are used to reduce harmonics, but these filters have method with pulse width modulation (PWM) current control
problems and disadvantages such as large size and weight, technique; to improve the power quality by reactive power
higher cost, fixed compensation, and resonance problems compensation and harmonic filtering. The THD obtained
with loads. Therefore the electrical power system has from the source current was 2.35 %. The authors in [10]
required an emphasis on a power electronic solution, that presented SAPF based on (PQ) theory with hysteresis
is, active power filters (APF) [4]. current control technique. They reduced the THD of the
APF is a very suitable solution for power quality source current from 25.24% to 0.81%. The research work in
problems for its smaller physical size and flexibility. Also, it [11] used the SAPF based (PQ) theory to harmonic
is slightly lower in cost and operating loss compared to eliminator deals with the compensation of odd harmonics,
passive filter [5]. These filters eliminate voltage and current reduces the THD, and improves the power quality.
harmonics by improving the power factor and cancel out the Simulation results show that the THD of the source current
negative and zero sequence components. APFs can be reduced from 26.5% to 3.6%.
classified depending on inverter type voltage source (VSI) Most of the previous methods did not address
and current source(CSI) active filters. VSI active power filter comparison between (PQ) and (DQ) method depending on
is a favorite type because of its high efficiency, low cost, PWM and hysteresis current control technique. Also, the
and lightweight [6]. APFs are also classified depending on effect of SAPF on different non-linear load current
the connection type into four kinds, shunt, series, hybrid, (controlled and uncontrolled rectifiers).
and universal [7]. In this paper four control techniques are presented, (PQ)
and (DQ) with hysteresis and PWM current control
1 1
1
ia
iα 2
ib
2 2
(3)
iβ 3 3 3 Fig.2. Shunt active power filter PQ theory
0 ic
2 2 B. SAPF based on (DQ) theory
Then, calculate the value of instantaneous active and In this technique, the reference current is found based
reactive power for the three-phase system as follows [15]: on the instantaneous active and reactive current
components id & iq of the non-linear load.
P Vα Vβ iα These reference currents are used to generate the
(4)
Q Vβ Vα iβ switching state of the inverter. Clarke and park
transformation is used to transform the non-linear load
current from a-b-c coordinates to α- coordinates, then the
where: P is the instantaneous real power, Q is the transformation to d-q coordinates as shown in Fig. 3, [17].
instantaneous reactive power.
Observing equation (4), the P and Q can be put in the
following form:
~
(5) PPP
~
(6) Q QQ
where: P – is the DC part of P, and related to fundamental
~
active current conventional, P – is the AC part of P, and
related with harmonic caused by the AC component of
instantaneous real power. Also, Q – is the DC part of Q, Fig.3. Clarke and park transformation
and related to the reactive power generated by the These transformations are defined by equations as
~ follows:
components fundamental currents and voltages, Q – is the
AC part of Q, and related to harmonic currents caused by
1 1
the AC components instantaneous reactive power.
1 ia
iα 2 2 2 ib
The low pass filter was used to extract the oscillating
(9)
iβ 3 3
3
parts of the real and reactive power. The compensated 0 ic
currents in α- coordinates are calculated as follows: 2 2
icα 1 Vα Vβ P
~ id cos sin i
(7) ~
(10)
iq - sin cos i
icβ 2 Vβ - Vα Q
Vα Vβ
2
Finally, these currents are transformed from α- The Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) is used to obtain the
coordinates to the a-b-c coordinates as follows: phase angle (ી) and frequency of source voltage for the d-q
transformation [18]. The d-q rotating reference frame is
used to obtain the fundamental and harmonic currents. The
resultant current is transformed to the DC component, while
i cos - sin id B. Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) current control
(11)
i sin cos iq technique
Switching signals to drive the MOSFETs of the inverter
Lastly, transformation backs the currents from the two- are generated by comparing the controlled current error
phase stationary frame α- to the three-phase stationary signal with a triangular reference waveform. The reference
frame a-b-c and obtains the compensation reference signal must be selected such that, the current signal is
currents ica, icb, and icc as follows. continuously kept within the positive and negative peaks of
the triangular waveform, or else the process of natural
sampling no longer occurs and some intersections between
ica 1 0 the reference signal and an error signal will be lost. The
icb 2 1 3 iα result is that some switching pulses to the MOSFETs drive
(12)
icc 3 2 2 iβ circuit will be dropped and inaccurate control [24].
1 3
The PWM current control technique is shown in Fig. 6.
2 2
Fig. 4, shows the DQ theory of shunt active power
filter(SAPF).
Switching losses
To estimate inverter switching losses, the data of the
switching devices, the MOSFET, given in [25], are
considered. Inverter losses are divided into two categories,
switching losses and conduction losses. Conduction loss is
calculated using the actual currents flowing through the
MOSFET [26]. Switching loss involves MOSFET turn-on
plus turn-off losses (Psw) obtained using the following
expressions:
f V dc I sw (peak) ( t sw (on) t sw (off))
(13) P sw
Fig.4. Shunt active power filter based DQ theory 2π
Where: t sw (on) and t sw (off) are the MOSFET turn-on
SAPF control techniques
and turn-off times respectively from IRFP460N MOSFET
The target of active power filter control is to generate
suitable gate drive signals to switch MOSFETs based on [25], I sw (peak) is the peak current switched by MOSFET,
estimated compensation reference signals. The f is switching frequency.
performance of active power filters is affected significantly
by the choice of control techniques [19]. The choice of the
control technique is very important for getting high filter
performance [20]. There are many kinds of control
techniques, such as PI control, sinusoidal PWM, and
hysteresis control [21]. In this work, two techniques are
presented:
Case 1 : SAPF based on PQ theory with hysteresis PCC point to reduce the source current distortion and
current control technique harmonic mitigation to improve the THD. Fig. 12, shows the
Fig. 8, shows the SAPF Simulink block source current waveform phase (a) with and without SAPF
diagram in Matlab. at 0.2 pu, 1 pu non-linear (uncontrolled) load current, and at
30°, 75° firing angles for (controlled) non-linearload.
The PQ theory block diagram is shown in Fig. 9.
The hysteresis current control block diagram is shown in Fig.11. Source voltage without and with SAPF
Fig. 10.
In this case, the SAPF reduced the THD of source
current from 10.9% to 0.46%, and from 19.38% to 0.19% at
0.2 pu, and 1 pu load current respectively. From 22.28% to
2.33%, and from 34.04% to 0.44% at 30°, and 75° firing
angles respectively.
Fig.13. Schematic block diagram of PWM current control technique Fig.16. The source current with & without SAPF at (A&B-
uncontrolled load = 0.2 pu &1 pu respectively, C&D- controlled load
The triangular reference waveform frequency used is 10 α = 30°& 75° respectively) (DQ with hysteresis technique)
kHz. The source current with and without SAPF at different
non-linear loads is shown in Fig. 14. Case 4 : SAPF using DQ theory with PWM current
control technique
The source current with and without SAPF at different
non-linear loads is shown in fig. 17.
Table (3) shows the inverter MOSFETs switching Fig. 23, shows the inverter MOSFETs switching losses
frequency at different techniques of SAPF. (Psw) at different firing angle (α) non-linear (controlled)
Table 3. SAPF inverter switching frequency. load.
SAPF Current Control Switching
Method Technique Frequency
hysteresis 150-350 KHz
PQ
PWM 10-200 KHz
hysteresis 150-350 KHz
DQ
PWM 10-200 KHz
Conclusion
The proposed work show the comparison between PQ
and DQ theory with hysteresis and PWM techniques to
controlling the SAPF to reduce the source current THD and
improve the power quality. The PQ and DQ theory with
hysteresis current control technique’s is reducing the THD
from 19.38% to 0.19% at uncontrolled non-linear load, and
from 34.04%to 0.44% at controlled non-linear load as
Fig.20. THD of source current with SAPF at different switching shown in Fig. 18, and 19 respectively, but high power
frequency using PWM with PQ and DQ method losses in inverter MOSFET switches because the high