Active harmonic suppression equipment and control method therefor

• US 20030169109A1
• Filed: 12/31/2002
• Published: 09/11/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 03/11/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ablerex Electronics Company Limited (Ablerex Overseas Corporation Limited)
• Original Assignee: UIS Abler Electronics Company Limited
• Inventors: Wu, Chin Chang, Feng, Ya Tsung, Chou, Hurng Liang, Chang, Yao Jen
• Granted Patent: US 6,717,465 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 330/149
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/01 Arrangements for reducing harmonics or ripples
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 40/40 Arrangements for reducing harmonics

Abstract

An active harmonic suppression equipment is consisted of a dc capacitor, a power converter, a serially connected inductor/capacitor set, a C-R-C filter set and a control circuit. The dc capacitor operates as an energy storage device and supplies a dc voltage, and the power converter electrically connected thereto is used to convert the dc voltage into a compensating voltage. The inductor/capacitor set and the C-R-C filter set are commonly converting the compensating voltage into a compensating current injecting into a power feeder in order to suppress harmonic currents generated by nonlinear loads, thereby adjusting an utility current to be approximated as a sine-wave.

Claims

1. An active harmonic suppression equipment comprising:

a serially connected capacitor/inductor set consisting of a reactive power compensation ac capacitor and a filter inductor;

while an impedance thereof is in fundamental frequency, the serially connected capacitor/inductor set performs as a capacitor and has fundamental reactive compensating function;

while the impedance thereof is in high frequency, the serially connected capacitor/inductor set performs as an inductor and has filtering function used to filter high frequency switching harmonic current;

the serially connected capacitor/inductor set electrically connected to a power feeder;

a C-R-C filter set connected to the power feeder and used to filter high frequency switching harmonic current;

a dc capacitor bank performing as an energy storage element and providing a dc voltage;

a power converter converting the dc voltage into a compensating voltage which is flowing through the serially connected capacitor/inductor set, and the C-R-C filter set to produce a compensating current which is injected into the power feeder to suppress harmonic currents generated by nonlinear loads, thereby adjusting a utility current to be approximated as a sine-wave; and

a control circuit detecting the load current, the utility current, the output current of the power converter and the voltage of the dc capacitor to calculate a reference voltage of the power converter and signals which are used to drive the power converter.

2. The active harmonic suppression equipment as defined in claim 1, wherein the power converter comprises power switching devices, a pulse width modulating signal modulated from a pulse width modulator used to drive the power switching devices and thereby convert the dc voltage provided from the dc capacitor into the compensating voltage.

3. The active harmonic suppression equipment as defined in claim 1, the C-R-C filter set consists of a first capacitor, a resistor in series connection thereto and a second capacitor in parallel connection thereto;

the C-R-C filter set electrically.

4. The active harmonic suppression equipment as defined in claim 1, wherein the control circuit contains a first control path, a second control path, a third control path, a fourth control path, and a pulse width modulator.

5. The active harmonic suppression equipment as defined in claim 4, the first control path of the control circuit retrieves the load current and a harmonic component thereof is obtained by a band-rejection filter filtering fundamental components, a voltage drop of a load harmonic current on the serially connected capacitor/inductor set is obtained via a PID controller and signals output from the first control path are initially adjusted for harmonic suppression.

6. The active harmonic suppression equipment as defined in claim 4, wherein the second control path of the control circuit retrieves the utility current and specified harmonic components thereof are obtained by a band-rejection filter and a set of band-pass filters, an output signal of the second control path is obtained while passing through an amplifier, errors of the first control path is fine adjusted by the second control path which is used to suppress the load harmonic current.

7. The active harmonic suppression equipment as defined in claim 4, wherein the third control path of the control circuit retrieves an output current of the power converter and a fundamental component thereof is obtained by a band-pass filter, a harmonic component is obtained from a subtractor in which subtracting the fundamental component from an output current of the power converter, and amplified by an amplifier to produce output signals, the third control path operates the power converter as a virtual harmonic resistor serially connected to the serially connected capacitor/inductor set to thereby result in harmonic damping and prevent from occurrence of oscillation.

8. The active harmonic suppression equipment as defined in claim 6, wherein the fourth control path of the control circuit retrieves a voltage of the dc capacitor bank which compares with a setting voltage in a controller, an output signal of the fourth control path is obtained multiplying an output of the controller by the fundamental component of the output current of power converter produced by the band-pass filter of the third control path, the fourth control path used to regulate the dc capacitor voltage.

9. The active harmonic suppression equipment as defined in claim 4, wherein signals of the first, second, third and fourth control path are added to produce a reference signal, converted into a pulse width modulated signal by the pulse width modulator, and used to drive power switching devices of the power converter;

the power converter converting the dc voltage into the compensating voltage which is successively passed through the serially connected capacitor/inductor set and the C-R-C filter set to produce the compensating current which is injected into the power feeder to filter harmonic currents generated by nonlinear loads, thereby adjusting the utility current to be approximated as a sine-wave.

10. An control method for an active harmonic suppression equipment comprising steps:

a control circuit retrieving a load current, an utility current, an output current of a power converter, and a voltage of a dc capacitor, and thereby calculating an expected voltage as well as a reference signal;

signals modulating from a pulse width modulator used to drive power switching devices of the power converter and convert an dc voltage produced from the dc capacitor into a compensating voltage which is successively passed through a serially connected capacitor/inductor set and a C-R-C filter set to produce a compensating current which is injected into a power feeder to filter harmonic currents generated by nonlinear loads, thereby adjusting the utility current to be approximated a sine-wave.