Abstract- A combined system of shunt passive and small rated series active
fdters has already been proposed by the authors. The operating principle and steady
compensation characteristics have been presented as well. The combined system
can greatly reduce problems of using only shunt passive or shunt active filters and
is suitable for harmonic compensation for large VA rated loads in paver systems
because the required VA rating of the series active filter used is considerably smaller
than that of a conventional shunt active power filter.
In this paper, transient compensation characteristics and stability of the system
are discussed and analyzed theoretically and experimentally in detail. A new control
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method is proposed, which enables application of the combined system to compen-
sation for cycloconverters. Some results obtained from the experimentalmodel using
the new control method are presented to demonstrate and confirm its validity.
5th 7th HP
1 INTRODUCTION
Shunt Passive Filter
(10kVA )
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A combined system of sliunt passive and small rated se-
ries active filters has already been proposed by the au-
thors[l]. the configuration of which is shown in Fig.1. Fig.1 System Configuration
The coiiibined filter system aims at eliminating problems Table1 Circuit Constants
of using only conventional shunt passive or conventional
shunt active filters. Its steady compensation character-
istics have been demonstrated and it has been verified
theoretically and experimentally that the combined sys-
tem has the following features[2].
0 Harmonic coinpelisation effect is not influenced by In this paper, focusing on transient states, stability and
tlic source inipedaiice of tlie ac power system. coinpensation characteristics of the combined system are
analyzed and discussed theoretically and experimentally
0 There is no antiresonance between the source h i - in detail. The stable and unstable regions of the com-
pedance and the shunt passive LC filter because the bined system and the problems faced when an attempt
series active filter is placed with the source. of improving transient compensation characteristics is
made are revealed. Then a new control method is pro-
0 Ambient harmonics generated elsewhere on the ac posed to improve transient characteristics of the system,
system, including harmonics of the ac source, do not and the validity is experimentally demonstrated.
sink into the LC filter. In the same time they are
isolated froin load harmonics by the series active fil- 2 SYSTEM CONFIGURATION A N D CONTROL SCHEME
ter.
Fig.1 shows the configuration of the combined system.
0 The required rating of tlie series active filter is con-
siderably smaller than that of a conventional active The shunt passive LC filter (lOkVA, the circuit constants
are listed in Table 1) is connected in parallel with a load
filter. Initial and running costs of the combined sys-
tem are as cheap as an usual shunt passive filter. just like a conventional shunt passive LC filter. Here
the load is a six-pulse thyristor rectifier (2OkVA). The
The papers [I] and [2] have described steady character- shunt passive filter consists of 5th- and 7th-tuned LC
istics of the combined system and the results obtained filters and a high pass filter, which are used to com-
we promising enough that the combined system is es- pensate for the load harmonics. The series active fil-
pecially suitable for harmonic compensation of large VA ter, the power circuit of which is three single-phase volt-
rated diode or thyristor rectifiers used in industrial ap- age source PWM inverters placed in series with the ac
plications because these loads vary slowly and can be source impedance through three current transformers,
considered as steady loads. However, some loads such as CT's (turns ratio=l:20), is used to improve compensa-
cycloconverters used for ac motor drives fluctuate with tion characteristics of the shunt passive filter. The rating
rapid speed and cannot be regarded as steady loads. It of the series active filter is 0.45kVA, which is 2.3% of that
is difficult for a conventional shunt passive filter to com- of the load.
pensate for these fluctuating loads because they gener- In principle, the series active filter is controlled to
ate variant frequency harmonics. Thus it is necessary present no impedance a t the fundamental frequency and
to discuss transient compensation characteristics of the a ' K ( 0 ) 'resistance to source and load harmonics. The
combined system when it is applied to compensate for 'K' resistance, much larger than the source impedance
fluctuating loads. and the equivalent impedance of the shunt passive filter,
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3 ANALYSIS
OF CHARACTERISTICS
(3)
can be considered as synchronous (with the source fre- yields the following decoupled relationship:
quency w l ) variables. Therefore, G ( s ) is operated on the
synchronous frame.
From Fig.2, it is obvious t h a t only H P F G ( s ) and value
of K can be designed in advance. They predominate over
characteristics of t h e system. The reasons why the in-
stantaneous powers are used to calculate ish rather than
notch filters are the independence of the filtering perfor- Fig.4 shows the positive and negative sequence com-
mance from source frequency variations and its simple pensation characteristics, Isp/lLp and Is,,/lLnr with
implementation [1][3]. G(s)=s/(s+w,)(1st-order HPF) and Ls=2%, in the cases
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Y
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A-~B
10, , , - . . ~
-10 -
-10
-20 - -20 -
-20
-30 L -30
-30
Fig.4 Coinpensation Characteristics
-100 E_
100
-100
-20 t Stavted
-250 k
100 c is
-100 t
20 k(dB' 'O
20 b"' 1
10 10
0 0
-10 -10
-20 -20
L I
-3oL Ls=2% '
Fig.12 Compensation Characteristics of
Fig.11 New Control Circuit Fig.ll(f,,=%OHz, fc,=35Hz)
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-1nn t
20: vc
0:
-20 L
5.2 T ~ a m i e n State
t aiinlyzed aiid pointed out. A n e w coiitrol iiiot,liotl for
Provided that the source powers p s and qs cliaiige step- tlic systeiii has beeii proposccl itiicl its viilitlity for tlio
wk;O with Ap, aiid Aqs wlieii the load has a step cliaiige. transiciit cliitracteristics iiiiprovcwciit liiis 1 ) c . c ~ s11ow11
Tlio ro:d powor flowiiig iiito the scrics active filtcr duc: aii;tlyticiilly ;tiid rxperiiiieiitally.
to thc stc~pwisecliiuige. p r, ( t). caii he give11 froni Eqs.( 3) A s :I resiilt. the coiiilhctl systtwi riui lw c:oiisiclorcd
a l l t l (4)a s :
+
where. V;,,I = u ; ~ u ; ~ . For example, when G ( s ) =
S/(A +w ~ is) 1st-order HPF, p c ( t ) is R. E F E it): N c ES
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n
I L
f rF:lOOA
I '
Fig.15 Experimental Results with New Control Circuit(Transient State)
I ' f ip:lOOA
that is,
j vc:2ov
1
_ _I ' Started
,
~
- f IJCd:2oov
--i
I
'1
--~
1- i-
j
Substituting s for P and letting Fig.16 Experimental Results with C, =190pF