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Project Advisor: Muhammad Ali Baig Dr. Abdul Qadir (Internal Advisor) (External Advisor)
ABSTRACT
Harmonics created by nonlinear loads such as arc furnaces, cycloconverters and motor drives destroys the power quality in the system. They not only affect the working of adjacent loads but also shorten the life of power equipment by creating excessive losses. Shunt Active Power Filter is a modern addition to family of compensating devices. It has superior qualities over its contemporaries namely SVCs and STATCOMs. It not only mitigates harmonics within the allowable limits defined by IEEE Std 519-1992, but also compensates unbalancing and reactive power in the system. Consequently, only active power is supplied by the source thus power factor approaches unity. A fully functional Simulink model of Shunt Active Power Filter has been designed based on Instantaneous Power Theory or p-q Theory. The results of simulation comply with all the featur es described by the theory, justifying employment of SAPF in the industry.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We thank Almighty Allah who gave us the opportunity to complete this project and to explore more knowledge in power systems. We learned so many new things and concepts due to its research based nature. Secondly, we are deeply indebted to our beloved parents for their unconditional support and prayers throughout our lives. And then, we offer our profound gratitude to our Internal Advisor Mr. Mirza Muhammad Ali Baig for being calm and supportive through the whole course of project, and for tolerating us. We are also magnanimous to our External Advisor Dr. Abdul Qadir for his vision and guidance. Also we are grateful to our FYP committee members namely, Sir Umer Sajid and Sir Muhammad Omar. Lastly, we want to thank Miss Samiya Zafar for listening to our ideas and for her altruistic suggestions. And Sir Fezan Rafique, for appreciating our project and hard work.
CONTENTS
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PREFACE 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Types of Load 1.2.1 Linear Load 1.2.2 Non-Linear Load 1.3 Power Quality 1.4 Harmonic Injection Limit 1.5 Problems caused by Harmonics 1.5.1 Effect on Power System itself 1.5.2 Effect on Consumer itself 1.5.3 Effect on Communication System 1.5.4 Effect on Revenue Billing 2. BACKGROUND 2.1 Harmonic Mitigation Techniques 2.2 Passive Harmonic Filters 2.2.1 Promising features of Passive Harmonic Filters 2.2.2 Non-Promising features of Passive Harmonic Filters 2.3 Active Harmonic Filters (AHF) 2.3.1 Operation of AHF 2.3.2 Advantages of AHF 3. THE INSTANTANEOUS POWER THEORY 3.1 Historical Background of Power Theory 3.2 Basis of the p-q Theory 3.3 Background of p-q Theory 3.4 The Clarke Transformation 3.5 The p-q Theory 3.6 Use of p-q Theory in Shunt Active Filters 3.7 Symmetrical Components 4. SHUNT ACTIVE POWER FILTER 4.1 Shunt Active Filters 4.2 General description of Shunt Active Filters 4.3 The Active Filter Controller v 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 4 4 4 4 5 6 6 6 7 8 8 8 9 10 10 10 11 11 13 15 16 18 18 18 19
4.4 Optimal Power Flow 4.5 Three Phase Three Wire Shunt Active Filter 4.6 The Simulink Model 4.6.1 3-Phase Source 4.6.2 Line Impedance (Zt) 4.6.3 V-I Measurement 4.6.4 Circuit Breaker 4.6.5 POWERGUI 4.6.6 Non-Linear Load 4.7 SHUNT APF 4.7.1 PQ and I-Compensation calculation 4.7.1.1 Clarke V 4.7.1.2 Clarke I 4.7.1.3 PQ Calculation 4.7.1.4 Low Pass Filter 4.7.1.5 Alpha-Beta Current 4.7.1.6 Compensation Currents 4.7.2 Hysteresis Controller 4.7.3 Universal Bridge 4.7.4 Capacitor 4.7.5 PI Controller 4.7.6 Coupling Inductor 5. SIMULATION RESULTS 5.1 Case I: Compensation of Non-Linear Load 5.2 Case II: Compensation of Non-Linear plus Unbalance Resistive Load 5.3 Case III: Compensation of Unbalance Resistive Load 5.4 Case IV: Compensation of Unbalance Inductive Load 5.5 Case V: Compensation of Unique Unbalance Resistive Load 5.6 Conclusion A. SYMMETRICAL COMPONENTS A.1 Simulink Model Of Sequence Power B. HYSTERESIS CONTROLLER B.1 Simulink Model Example B.2 Hysteresis Band in Digital Hysteresis Current Controller BIBLIOGRAPHY
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PREFACE
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The concept of harmonic compensation is the underlying idea of our project. The compensation is not done by signal comparison, as it is done in active filtering, but on the basis of power selection in harmonic components and unbalanced component of fundamental current component. The inspiration behind this idea comes from our curiosity of power properties under semiconductor load (nonlinear load). We went through H. Akagis book Instantaneous Power Theory and Applications to Power Conditioning. It helped us understanding the p-q Theory proposed by H. Akagi et al, originally in 1982. Proponent of p-qs rival theory; Lesczek S. Czarnecki pointed out many limitations and flaws in the theory, and put forward his own Current Physical Component Theory. Czarnecki made a comprehensive discourse on Voltages and Currents in Non Sinusooidal Conditions, his research publication, by comparing power definitions of various power theories. This report is divided into five chapters. In chapter 1, we have discussed basic power definitions and idea of harmonics in power systems. Chapter 2 discusses the aged solutions of harmonic problem; Passive Harmonic Filters are discussed in detail. Chapter 3 puts forward H. Akagi and A. Nabaes Instantaneous Power Theory, and tries to explain its various power terms. Chapter 4 is titled as per our project name, Shunt Active Power Filter, describes working algorithm based on the p-q Theory, and our Simulink model, its building blocks and specifications in detail. Chapter 5 is dedicated to simulation results, five cases of nonlinear and unbalanced load were considered to demonstrate the feats of Active Power Filters. Appendices on Symmetrical Components and Hysteresis Controller are also attached to assist the reader. Finally, we want to acknowledge that we are immensely grateful to above mentioned scholars and our teachers, without whom it would not be possible.
JAWAD, WALEED, DANISH, FURQAN AND FARHAN
Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION
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1.1 INTRODUCTION
Electric power is the rate of electrical energy flow at any point. In other words it can also be defined as the product of the instantaneous voltage and current. If i(t) and v(t) represent the instantaneous sinusoidal current and voltage respectively then the instantaneous power P(t) can be given as; ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ( ( ( ) ( ) ( ( ) ) ) ) ( ) ) ( ( ( ) ) ( ) ) ( ) ( )
If we consider v as reference i.e. v = 0o and i = then the above equation will become: ( ) ( ) ( ( ) ) ( ) ( )
Where pact(t) is the real or active power absorbed by the electrical components and preactive(t) is the power oscillating in the power system due to the charging components like inductance and capacitance. This reactive power is in the form of increasing current which causes higher line losses, voltage drops, etc.
But according to modern definitions pact(t) is not the total useful power and preactive(t) is also cause by power electronic components or non-linear loads (Further discussion of 3-phase power and various terms involved in it are explained in Chapter No. 3). Moreover, non-linear loads like switching circuits, speed control circuits, welding plants, thermal loads, variable frequency drives; motor controls, power invertors, cyclo convertors, high frequency induction furnaces, etc tends to produce harmonics distortion in power lines. These high frequency harmonic components cause greater magnetization and heating losses in the cores of electrical machines and transmission lines. The effects of harmonic distortion are hard to measure but the end results are easy to understand, higher operating costs and lower reliability.
Table 10.3: Current Distortion Limits for General Distribution System (120V through 69,000V) Maximum Harmonic Current Distortion in Percentage of IL Individual Harmonic Order (Odd harmonics) ISC/IL h<11 11 h <17 17 h <23 23 h <35 35< h TDD <20* 4.0 2.0 1.5 0.6 0.3 5.0 20<50 7.0 3.5 2.5 1.0 0.5 8.0 50<100 10.0 4.5 4.0 1.5 0.7 12.0 100<1000 12.0 5.5 5.0 2.0 1.0 15.0 >1000 15.0 7.0 6.0 2.5 1.4 20.1 Even harmonics are limited to 25% of the odd harmonic limits above Current distortions are result in a DC offset (e.g. half wave converters) are not allowed * All power generation equipments are limited to these values of current distortion regardless of actual ISC/IL Where, ISC = maximum short circuit current at PCC IL = maximum Demand load current (fundamental frequency component) at PCC
Table 1.1 Harmonic Limits
1.5.4 EFFECT OF REVENUE BILLING Electrical utility companies usually measure energy consumption in two quantities energy consumed and the maximum power used for given period. Both energy and demand are measured using the so-called watt -hour and demand meters. Harmonic currents from non -linear loads can impact the accuracy of watt-hour and demand meter adversely. Traditional watt -hour meters are based on the induction motor principle. Conventional magnetic disk watt -hour meters tend to have a negative error at harmonic frequencies. That is, they register low for power at harmonic frequencies if they are properly calibrated for fundamental frequency. This error increases with increasing frequency.
Chapter 2 BACKGROUND
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2.1 HARMONIC MITIGATION TECHNIQUES
The growing concern of good power quality and awareness with the harms to power system due to harmonics along with the penalties imposed by utility companies and the standards to the limit of THD made by IEEE and other organizations are the driving factors for invention and adoption of various methods, devices and equipment for harmonic mitigation. These equipment include: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Line reactors Isolation transformers K-Factor transformers Phase shifting transformer Harmonic filters
The most effective and useful of the list are current harmonic filters. There are two types of harmonic filters: 1) passive harmonic filter and 2) active harmonic filters.
Single-Tuned
High-Pass
Double-Tuned
C-Type
Single tuned, double tuned, high pass and c-type are four types of passive harmonic filter but most common of them is single tuned filters. Tuned filter is the most common type of passive filters. It is a series combination of inductor and capacitor which resonates at tuning frequency, therefore, its impedance is very low for tuned harmonic. Because of low impedance at tuned frequency the filter now becomes the source of harmonic current rather than the utility. Another popular type of passive filter is the high-pass filter (HPF). A HPF will allow a large percentage of all harmonics above its corner frequency to pass through. The following figure shows impedance vs. frequency curve of a tuned passive harmonic filter. The response is highly capacitive (with high impedance) at fundamental frequency, therefore provides reactive power at fundamental frequency as well. At tuned frequency the response is resistive while above tuned frequency response is inductive.
Capacitive Response
Inductive Response
3. Shunt passive filters have extra advantage of providing reactive power. Hence they correct distortion power factor and displacement power factor as well. 4. Brings down the THD in line current to the allowable limits.
inductor or a coupling transformer. The performance of AHF is independent of system impedance as it compares the injected currents with reference signals and tries to minimize the error. There are three topologies of AHF: i) Series AHF, ii) Shunt AHF and iii) Hybrid AHF. We have selected Shunt AHF for this project which is ideal for current harmonic compensation. A generalize block diagram of SAHF is given below;
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Traditionally a three-phase system is considered as superposition of three single-phase circuits. The p-q Theory first transforms and map linearly the voltages and currents from the abc coordinates to 0 axes, and then defines instantaneous powers in these coordinates. Hence, this theory always considers the three-phase system as single unit, not a superposition or sum of three single-phase circuits.
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and v0. The Clarke Transformation and its inverse transformation of three-phase generic voltages are given by,
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and
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One advantage of applying the 0 transformation is to separate zero-sequence components from the abc-phase components. The and axes contains only positive and negative sequence components. Since there is no neutral in a three- phase, three-wire system and therefore on zero sequence currents, so i0 can be eliminated from the above equations, thus resulting in matrix simplification. If the three-phase voltages are exactly balanced in a four wire system, so no zerosequence voltage is present, therefore v0 can be eliminated. However, when zero-sequence voltage and current components are present, the complete transformation should be considered. If v0 is eliminated from the transformation matrices, the Clarke transformation and inverse Clarke transformation becomes,
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Similarly, we can transform line currents using above matrices. The matrices in (3.3) and (3.4) is nothing but an axes-transformation from abc coordinates to 0 frame, as illustrated Fig. 3-1. 0 frame is a stationary frame, it should not be confused with the dq0-tranformation or rotation phase vectors on phasor domain. Note that these all value are instantaneous value of real life sample taken from line voltage and load current. The a, b and c axes are spatially shifted by 120o from each other, while the and axis are 90 degrees apart fom each other, and the axis is parallel to the a axis. This graphical representation explains the above mentioned points,
Figure 3-1 - Graphical representations. (a) The abc to 0 transformation (Clarke transformation). (b) Inverse 0 to abc transformation (inverse Clarke transformation).
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zero-sequence power p0, the instantaneous real power p, and the instantaneous imaginary power q, are defined from the instantaneous phase voltages and line currents on the 0 axes as,
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If there are no zero-sequence current components in three-phase, three-wire systems, that is, i0 = 0. In this case, only the instantaneous powers defined on the axes exist, because the product v0 i0 is always zero. Similarly, if ther is no zero-sequence voltage components in three phase four wire systems, that is v0 = 0.Hence, in three-phase, three-wire systems, the instantaneous real power p represents the total energy flow per unit time in terms of components. The power components p and q are related to the same - voltages and currents, and can be written together:
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Both of these powers have constant values and a superposition of oscillating components. Therefore, it is interesting to separate p and q into two parts:
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Similarly, if we have three phase four wire system zero sequence power can be expresses as the sum of an average and oscillating components.
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These quantities are illustrated in the following figure for an electrical system represented in a-bc coordinates and have the following physical meaning:
Figure 3.2 - Physical meaning of the various terms defined in the --0 reference frame.
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= mean value of the instantaneous zero-sequence power in 0 frame corresponds to the energy per time unit which is transferred from the power supply to the load through the zerosequence components of voltage and current. O = oscillating value of the instantaneous zero-sequence power in 0 frame it means the
energy per time unit that is exchanged between the power supply and the load through the zerosequence components. The zero-sequence power only exists in three-phase systems with neutral wire. Furthermore, the systems must have unbalanced voltages and currents and/or 3rd harmonics in both voltage and current of at least one phase.
= mean value of the instantaneous real power in 0 frame corresponds to the energy per time unit which is transferred from the power supply to the load, through the a-b-c coordinates, in a balanced way (it is the desired power component). = oscillating value of the instantaneous real power in 0 frame It is the energy per time
unit that is exchanged between the power supply and the load, through the a-b-c coordinates.
= oscillating value of the instantaneous imaginary power in 0 frame. 3.6 USE OF THE p-q THEORY IN SHUNT ACTIVE FILTER
The original concept of active filtering was introduced by Strycula and Gyugyi in 1976. Now a shunt active filter can be implemented practically, and many shunt active filters are working all over the world. Their controllers determine in real time the compensating current reference, and source a power converter to synthesize the compensating current reference with high fidelity. Figure 3.3 illustrates the basic idea behind the shunt current compensation. It shows a source supplying power to a nonlinear load that is being compensated by a shunt active filter. Shunt active filter is in actual is a shunt compensator. We assumed that the shunt active filter behaves as a three phase controlled current source that can generate harmonics in phase opposition depending upon current references i*ca, i*cb, and i*cc.
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The calculated real power p of the load can be separated into its average (p) and oscillating (~p) parts. Likewise, the load imaginary power q can be separated into its average (q) and oscillating (~q) parts. Then, undesired portions of the real and imaginary powers of the load that should be compensated are selected. The reason for incorporating a minus sign in the compensating powers is to emphasize that the compensator must inject harmonics in perfect phase opposition. Remember that convention of current direction is selected so in figure 3.3, that source current is the sum of load current and filter current. Inverse Clarke transformation from 0 to abc-coordinates is applied then to calculate the compensating current references i*ca, i*cb, and i*cc, instantaneously. Ideally compensating current can be calculated by subtracting line current from a pure sine wave of the same peak value as the fundamental component of current drawn by non linear load.
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negative sequence voltage and the positive sequence current. Therefore circuits without any harmonic generating load can have oscillating active or nonactive power. In Appendix A, we have analyzed the instantaneous real and imaginary powers of the sequence components of symmetrical components.
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The PWM converter comprises of a 3 arm bridge inverter and a PWM controller that generates the gating signals for the bridge inverter. The active filter controller is responsible for calculating
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the compensatory reference currents which the bridge inverter tries to accurately track and inject into the system at PCC. The generalized diagram of shunt active filter is shown in figure 4.1
Figure 4.2 Control block for constant instantaneous power control strategy
Clarke transformation matrix transforms source voltage and load current from abc-coordinates to -axes. Through these voltage and current, real and imaginary powers are calculated (instantaneous). According to the power requirements, compensatory current is calculated. And after calculating, these currents are inversely transformed back to abc-coordinates.
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The PWM converter takes synthesizing action on compensating current. The filter control block has the job perform signal analysis in real time to calculate the instantaneous compensatory reference current signals. The figure 4.3 shows the most common topology of an active filter for harmonic compensation (maximum compensation) of a specific non linear load. It consists of a voltage source inverter with a PWM current control, here hysteresis current control, and an active filter controller that performs an instantaneously working control-algorithm. The shunt active filter controller works in a closed-loop manner, continuously acquiring the samples of the load current and calculating the instantaneous values of the compensating current reference i*c for the PWM converter. In an ideal case, the PWM converter may be considered as a linear power amplifier, where the compensating current ic tracks correctly its reference.
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The filter control consists of following control block: 1. Instantaneous powers calculation 2. Powers-compensation select 3. dc-voltage regulation 4. Determine reference current The Instantaneous powers calculation block calculate the instantaneous power of the non linear load. According to p-q Theory, only the active and reactive power exist, because there is no neutral, zero-sequence power is not present. The Powers-compensation select block determine the working output of the shunt active filter. In other words, it selects the parts of the active (real) and reactive (imaginary) power of the non linear load, that should be compensated by the filter. Moreover, the dc-voltage regulation block determines the extra amount of power ploss, that causes an additional flow of energy to (from) the dc link to keep its voltage fixed around reference voltage Vref. This active power ploss is summed up to the compensating active power pc, and together with the compensating reactive power qc, are passed to the calculation of reference current block. It determine the instantaneous compensatory current reference from the udesired powers. The power injector of the shunt active filter consists of a three-phase voltage source inverter made up of IGBT or power MOSFETs and anti parallel diodes. The PWM current controller force the inverter to simulate a controlled current source. In order to avoid high inductive kick, the coupling of a inverter to the system must be made through a coupling inductor, commonly known as a commutation inductor or a series coupling inductor. The leakage inductive reactance of a coupling transformer can also serve this purpose, that is to limit di/dt, so the coupling inductor can be eliminated ftom the power circuit. Figure also shows a small RC pssive filter, it filters the higher order harmonics generated due to the switching of power converter.
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4.6.3 V-I MEASUREMENT Three phase VI Measurement block is used to measure line to ground voltages and line currents.
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Figure 4.5 - Complete System
4.6.4 CIRCUIT BREAKER A three phase Circuit Breaker is connected in series with line and SAPF. Breaker timing is defined such that it connects SAPF with system after some time simulation has started in order to have a better look at line current harmonics and the effect of SAPF. 4.6.5 POWERGUI This block is needed to run any SimPower System model. It provides option for configuration of simulation and analysis of system. 4.6.6 NON-LINEAR LOAD The non-linear load has two components connected in parallel as highlighted in figure 4.6. One is three phase rectifier and the other is an unbalance resistive load. The two loads are switched on one after another to have a better look at compensation of harmonics and balancing of system with SAPF.
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4.7.1 PQ & I-COMPENSATION CALCULATION This is the heart of APF. PQ Theory algorithm for calculation of active and reactive power and compensation currents (currents that are to be injected in order to compensate harmonic distortion) is implemented in this block. Embedded MATLAB Function block is used to implement all the mathematical operations involved in the algorithm. Figure 4.8 shows all the blocks required for calculation of compensation currents. 4.7.1.1 CLARKE V This block takes phase voltages Va, Vb and Vc as input and transforms them to V and V using Clarke transformation through the following functions: function [x,y] = VCT(u,v,w) x = sqrt(2/3)*(u-(0.5*v)-(0.5*w)); y = sqrt(2)*(0+(0.5*v)-(0.5*w));
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4.7.1.2 CLARKE I This block takes line currents Ia, Ib and Ic as input and transforms them to I and I using Clarke transformation through the following functions: function [x,y] = ICT(u,v,w) x = sqrt(2/3)*(u-(0.5*v)-(0.5*w)); y = sqrt(2)*(0+(0.5*v)-(0.5*w)); 4.7.1.3 PQ CALCULATION This block calculates active and reactive powers of three phase system using V, V and I, I. The functions used in this block are: function [P,Q] = PQ(x1,x2,y1,y2) P = (x1*y1)+(x2*y2); Q = (x2*y1)-(x1*y2); 4.7.1.4 LOW PASS FILTER Analog Filter Design block is used to implement 5th order Butterworth Low pass filter with cut of frequency of 2*pi*50 rad/sec. this is used to filter out the component of active power transferred only due to the fundamental current component.
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4.7.1.5 ALPHA BETA CURRENT Now oscillating component of active power, reactive power, V and V are used to find harmonic currents in alpha-beta co-ordinates. function [Ic1,Ic2] = ICOM(Posc,q,V1,V2) Ic1 = (-1/(V1^2 + V2^2))*((Posc*V1)+(q*V2)); Ic2 = (-1/(V1^2 + V2^2))*((Posc*V2)-(q*V1)); 4.7.1.6 COMPENSATION CURRENTS Compensation currents in terms of abc phases are calculated by taking inverse Clarke transform of alpha-beta compensation currents. function [ICa,ICb,ICc] = Ical(Ic1,Ic2) ICa = sqrt(2/3)*(Ic1); ICb = sqrt(2/3)*((-0.5*Ic1)+((sqrt(3)/2)*Ic2)); ICc = sqrt(2/3)*((-0.5*Ic1)-((sqrt(3)/2)*Ic2)); 4.7.2 HYSTERESIS CONTROLLER Hysteresis Current Controller is one of the technique available for the generation of PWM signals that controls the gates of inverters transistors. A detailed description is given in
Appendix B.
4.7.3 UNIVERSAL BRIDGE Gating signals generated by hysteresis current controller are fed to Universal Bridge three-arm IGBT fast switching inverter. The inverter generates exactly the required harmonic currents. 4.7.4 CAPACITORS Capacitors are discharged through the inverter to generate compensation currents. These capacitors then become the source of harmonics rather than the main source. 4.7.5 PI CONTROLLER PI controller is used to remove steady sate error. Here we want it to maintain Vdc by comparing it with a constant value of Vref. If Vdc is lesser than Vref then it would create a positive ploss signal and if Vdc is greater than Vref it would create negative ploss signal. 4.7.6 COUPLING INDUCTOR An inductor is used to couple power inverter with point of common coupling (PCC). Its job is to limit L.di/dt effects. Leakage inductance of a coupling transformer can also be used.
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Figure 5.1 shows a three phase rectifier with a resistor connected on DC side as a non-linear load, its powers are shown in Figure 5.2 The source, load and compensation currents are shown in Figure 5.3, it can be observed from Figure that APF is switched on at 0.02 seconds. After compensation the source current has become a single frequency pure sinusoid having THD equal to 0.70% which is within limits as standardized by IEEE in Std. 519.
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This case is simulated to show the dynamic behaviour of the APF. The APF is switched on at 0.02 seconds with the non-linear load only. The circuit breaker shown in Figure 5.4 is closed at 0.05 seconds and now the load has been changed. And the APF has only taken about 15 milliseconds to respond to the changing behaviour of the load. These switching instants and the dynamic behaviour of the APF can easily be observed from the Figure 5.6
This case is simulated to show the capability of APF to make the load balance, that is compensating negative sequence currents so that the source will provide positive sequence only.
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One thing that is worth noticing in Figure 5.8 is the presence of q (vai) in case of resistive but unbalance load. And this is one of the points used by L.S. Czarnecki (author of the CPC Theory) to criticize the Akagis theory.
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This is also a very important case, as this case shows the presence of active power, even if the load is the purely reactive. The oscillations in both the powers is due to the unbalanced load condition due to which a negative sequence current is also present. On the basis of this and the previous case following conclusions regarding power due to symmetrical components can be drawn assuming the source voltages are balanced and having positive phase sequence. 1. The presence of constant instantaneous active power p(W) is due to the positive sequence current and only in case of purely resistive load but may be unbalance. 2. The presence of constant instantaneous imaginary power q(VAI) is due to the positive sequence current and only in case of purely inductive/capacitive load but may be unbalance. 3. The presence of oscillations in both of the instantaneous powers is due to the negative sequence current whether a load is purely resistive or inductive/capacitive.
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This is the unique case, simulated to show that even the load is connected between the single phase and the ground, but after compensation the balanced three phase current is supplied by the source i.e. the APF is acting as a resistive load for the remaining two open phases .
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5.6 CONCLUSION
All the five cases that are discussed, helps in better understanding of power theory presented by Akagi and his co-workers and some insights which conventional power theory fails to provide in its phasor domain. Also the five cases shows the dynamic and versatile behavior of APF.
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where the subscripts 0, 1, and 2 refer to the zero, positive, and negative sequence components. The sequence components, only differ by their phase angles, and are symmetrical i.e. all individual components are equal and are 2/3 radians or 120 apart. Operator displaces any phasor by an angle of 120, if multiplied.
And 3 = 1, so that 1 = 2. The zero sequence components always have same phase; denote them as:
And, the positive and the negative phase sequences, respectively written as:
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Thus,
where
A.1 SIMULINK MODEL OF SEQUENCE POWER Our motive is to calculate Symmetrical components in time domain. We used transport delay block in SIMULINK library to emulate phasor vector in time domain. since there are 360 electrical degrees in one cycle of 20m seconds. ifphasor represents 120 degrees shift in electrical degrees it corresponds to 6.666m seconds.
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Figure A.1 shows that sequence currents are fed into PQ measument block because we wish to calculate power of each sequence and analyse them in the light of AkagispqTheory.The conclusions from pq Theory can be written from the above equations for the real andImaginary powers of the symmetrical components: 1. Average real power flows in system only due to the product of positive sequence currents and source voltages. 2.The zero and negative sequence components in currents contribute to the oscillations in real imaginary powers. To test above points we coupled our block with APF. In order to have both seqeunces in line current unbalanced resistive load was connected. APF was set to operate at adelay of 0.06secs, in order to incorporate before and after compensation affects, in other words negative sequence currents must be wiped out completely since all imaginary power would be compensated. Whereas positive sequence current would remain unaltered since they are responsible for active power transfer to the load. Fig. A.3, evidently shows that power transfer by positive sequence currents it active, since the currents are unaltered before and after the APF operation. Hence only positive sequence currents are coming from the source. Note the transients after 0.06secs are due DC capacitor charging. Similarly, Fig. A.4 shows that negative sequence currents are completely compensated by APF and instantaneous powers of negative sequence also eliminated from the system.
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Figure A.3 Positive sequence powers and currents before and after compensation
Figure A.4 Negative sequence powers and currents before and after compensation
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An error signal e(t) which is the difference between the reference current signal i ref(t) and the actual output current signal iactual(t) of the inverter, is used to generate the gating signals for the transistors of VSI. Depending on the upper and lower limits of the hysteresis band the range of error signal can be determined. If e(t) is greater than the maximum value of error emax the transistors are switched off and if e(t) is less than the minimum value of error emin then the transistors are switched on. And if the error is within the range i.e. emin < e(t) < emax then the state of the transistors remain unchanged. The switching frequency of hysteresis current controller is not constant and depends upon the following factors: 1. The width of the hysteresis band. Switching frequency is inversely proportional to the width of the hysteresis band.
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the DC side. B.1 SIMULINK MODEL EXAMPLE To better understand the working of hysteresis controller, let us simulate a single phase inverter model in SIMULINK Environment in which gating signals of transistors are controlled through hysteresis controller. Figure B.2 shows a SIMULINK model in which Relational Operator and Logical NOT Operator blocks, together acting as a hysteresis controller. The output of Relational Operator block is directly connected to one diagonal pair of transistors namely IGBT1 and IGBT2, and indirectly through Logical NOT Operator block, connected to another diagonal pair of transistors namely IGBT3 and IGBT4. Relational Operator compares the reference and load current values, if reference value is greater than load value than Relational Operator block gives 1 as output, and 0 if reference value is less than load value.
Let us simulate a model for a very short interval of time to see how these two block works together as hysteresis controller. Refer to figure B.3 which shows a stem plot figure made using MATLABs stem command by importing the SIMULINK data to the workspace. The red coloured lines are representing the reference current values, the blue coloured lines are representing the load (tracked) current values and the black coloured filled lines are representing the decision of Relational Operator block taken by comparing the current values at every Ts instant.
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Figure B.3 - Comparison of reference and load current values sampled after every Ts
It can be seen in the figure B.3 that, when the red line (reference value) has higher value than the blue line (tracked value) the black line (gating signal) is at value equal to 1, that means the transistor is switched 'ON' and when the opposite is true than the black line (gating signal) is at value 0, that means the transistor is 'OFF' and this process goes on controlling the gates of the transistors. B.2 HYSTERESIS BAND IN DIGITAL HYSTERESIS CURRENT CONTROLLER When the hysteresis current controller is digitally implemented than the rate at which the currents are sampled determines the width of the hysteresis band. The higher the sampling rate the thinner the hysteresis band and vice versa. This thing can easily be understood by simulating our SIMULINK model with different values of Ts. Refer to figure B.4 (a) and (b), which shows a comparison of two cases which are simulated by configuring the powergui block at different Ts values. It can be seen in the figure B.4 (a) and (b) that, when the Ts value is higher (lower sampling rate) the hysteresis band is thicker. And when the Ts value is lower (higher sampling rate) the hysteresis band is thinner.
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(b) Model simulated at Ts = 2e-005 seconds Figure B.4 - Hysteresis Band at different sampling rate
Therefore, one should select a proper value of sampling time or sampling frequency such that the maximum frequency content present in reference current signal is properly sampled and ripples in the actual current should be as small as possible. However, higher the sampling rate higher will be the switching frequency and hence more will be the switching losses .
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