abstract

• This paper presents the modeling and control design of a single-phase cascaded H-bridge multilevel converter used as a shunt active filter in the general case of n-levels. Based on a general model, a controller is proposed to compensate harmonic distortion and reactive power caused by nonlinear loads. For this, the controller must guarantee tracking of the line current towards an appropriately defined reference. In the proposed approach, the current reference has been selected to be proportional to the line voltage. The proposed controller also includes voltage loops to guarantee regulation and balance of the involved capacitor voltages. Simulation results are presented to assess the performance of the proposed controller. © 2015 IEEE.

authors

• Campos Delgado Daniel Ulises
• Escobar G.
• Mtepele K.O.
• Valdéz Fernández Andrés Alejandro

publication date

• 2016-01-01

published in

• 2015 IEEE International Autumn Meeting on Power, Electronics and Computing, ROPEC 2015  Proceedings

keywords

• Adaptive Control; Harmonic Compensation; Multilevel Converters; Power System Harmonics Active filters; Adaptive control systems; Bandpass filters; Bridge circuits; Harmonic analysis; Power converters; Adaptive Control; Cascaded H-bridge multilevel converters; Generalized models; Harmonic compensation; Modeling and control; Multilevel converter; Power system harmonics; Shunt active filters; Controllers

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1109/ROPEC.2015.7395086

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