A novel adaptive HBCC technique for three-phase shunt APF

Abstract

This paper proposes an important improvement of the hysteresis band current control (HBCC) technique for three-phase shunt active power filter (APF) to eliminate harmonics and to compensate the reactive power generated by three-phase rectifier. In this technique, a simple and quick prediction of the hysteresis band is added to a phase-locked-loop (PLL) control to ensure constant switching frequency and synchronization of modulation pulses independently on system parameters. This allows the advantages of quick response, good current tracking accuracy and minimal ripple in three-phase systems. This technique is robust and it is characterized by the simplicity, this aspect is very significant for a practice realization because it constitutes the factors which determine the cost and the reliability of industrial assembly. The proposed technique determines the switching signals of the three-phase shunt APF and the algorithm which is based on the dc bus capacitors voltage regulation using proportional-integral (PI) controller is used to determine the suitable current reference signals. The behavior of the proposed technique has been fully verified by digital simulation, where the obtained results show that the proposed technique can improve shunt APF performances noticeably.