Abstract
As one of the main power devices of active power filter (APF), iron core reactor DC magnetic bias would affect the performance of APF. Based on the study of DC magnetic bias mechanism of APF iron core reactor, the data model was established in this paper. The performance of APF device impacted by iron core reactor DC magnetic bias was analysed through the simulation in different DC current conditions, and optimization scheme was proposed to reduce DC magnetic bias to improve working performance of APF. To reduce DC magnetic bias, main circuit parameters and control characteristics were uniform, and reluctance of iron core was increased. Results of the simulations and experiments validated that the improved method could restrain reactor DC magnetic bias to reduce even harmonic current in APF output current, which could greatly optimize APF performance.
Highlights
Nowadays, with the increase of power electronic devices application, the voltage and current of electric power system have been distorted and it caused serious pollution problems of power supply quality [1, 2]
As the main power components, the filter reactor L is connected to power system with converter, and working current of Active power filter (APF) device is undertaken
DC magnetic bias of converter transformer was researched in documents [12, 13], but the study of iron core reactor DC magnetic bias mechanism in APF as high frequency converter is not sufficient [14]
Summary
With the increase of power electronic devices application, the voltage and current of electric power system have been distorted and it caused serious pollution problems of power supply quality [1, 2]. Active power filter (APF) is a kind of power electronic devices that is currently used to suppress harmonic and compensate reactive power [5, 6]. As the main power components, the filter reactor L is connected to power system with converter, and working current of APF device is undertaken. In the actual application process, magnetic bias DC excitation of iron core can lead working current of APF to have large even harmonic current [15] and cause the core saturation. Thereby, it would increase the loss of reactor and reduce the efficiency of APF, which seriously affected the performance of the APF [16]. Experimental results showed that the optimization could greatly reduce the DC
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