Active filter reference calculations based on customers' current harmonic emissions

Špelko, Aljaž (author), Blažič, Boštjan (author), Papič, Igor (author), Herman, Leopold (author)

This paper deals with harmonics compensation in industrial and distribution networks using an active filter (AcF). When defining the AcF’s reference current, it is important to properly consider the network background harmonic distortion. Within this paper, we propose an AcF reference current calculation method, based on customers’ current harmonic emissions. The main novelty of the paper is the AcF reference current calculation method that considers only the customer’s contributions to the harmonic distortion at the point of common coupling (PCC). By separating the harmonic current at the PCC into components that can be attributed to the customer and to the network, it is possible to limit the required AcF power. To determine the customer’s emission, the customer’s harmonic impedance must be known. As the actual harmonic impedance cannot be determined in a real environment, a reference harmonic impedance can be used instead. To test the proposed AcF reference current calculation method, we developed a control algorithm of an AcF in the PSCAD software and tested this on a medium-voltage benchmark simulation model.

• Language: English
• Keywords: active filter reference, harmonic emission, power quality, reference impedances
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FE - Faculty of Electrical Engineering
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2021
• Number of pages: 13 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 14, iss. 1, art. 220
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-134782
• UDC: 621.31
• ISSN on article: 1996-1073
• DOI: 10.3390/en14010220
• COBISS.SI-ID: 45609987
• Publication date in RUL: 01.02.2022

ŠPELKO, Aljaž, BLAŽIČ, Boštjan, PAPIČ, Igor and HERMAN, Leopold, 2021, Active filter reference calculations based on customers’ current harmonic emissions. Energies [online]. 2021. Vol. 14, no. 1,  220. [Accessed 19 April 2025]. DOI 10.3390/en14010220. Retrieved from: https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/IzpisGradiva.php?lang=eng&id=134782

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Energies
• Shortened title: Energies
• Publisher: Molecular Diversity Preservation International
• ISSN: 1996-1073
• COBISS.SI-ID: 518046745

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 04.01.2021

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: referenca aktivnega filtra, emisije harmonikov, kakovost električne energije, referenčne impedance