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In recent years there has been widespread use of power electronics devices and non-linear elements in rectification and switchgear applied to various areas of power system. Power systems contain levels of harmonics which can no longer be ignored by engineers, planners, energy conservationists and economists due to the presence of non-linear loads. A simulated case study of distributed system in IEEE 519 is being used here for harmonic reduction. From the simulated case study, the network was investigated using MiPower software package. The results were compared with IEEE standards 519 and it was found that MiPower software is the preferred package for power system harmonic analysis. The harmonic reduction solution chosen was to design a passive filter to decrease the distortion by shifting the resonance point of the network. This paper includes the method to design the passive filter and its impact on efficiency and energy usage.

In this paper, a novel control scheme compensating source voltage unbalance and harmonic currents for hybrid active power filters is proposed, where no low/high-pass filters are used in compensation voltage composition. The phase angle and compensation voltages for source harmonic current and unbalanced voltage components are derived from the positive sequence component of the unbalanced voltage set, which is simply obtained by using digital all-pass filters. Since a balanced set of the source voltage obtained by scaling the positive sequence components is used as reference values for source current and load voltage, it is possible to eliminate the necessity of low/high-pass filters in the reference generation. Therefore the control algorithm is much simpler and gives more stable performance than the conventional method. In addition, the source harmonic current is eliminated by compensating for the harmonic voltage of the load side added to feedback control of the fundamental component.

We studied how the passive intermodulation (PIM) power arising in air cavity filters could be calculated and how the design of the filter could be optimized in order to reduce the amplitude of the PIM signal. To do this, using simulated results, we optimized the various parameters of a filter. PIM in an air cavity filter depends on the power dissipated in its cavities. A reduction of this power loss therefore decreases the PIM power in the air cavity filter. Our experimental results confirm that it is possible to design and produce air cavity filters that generate low PIM signals.

This paper presents the RTDS training course on using passive filters for control of harmonic currents. The course can show harmonic currents in porer system, which is occurred by function generators, with Fourier analysis function of RTDS and the effect of passive filters implemented in RTDS to eliminate harmonics. In addition to, With Jeju-Haenam HVDC system, we have simulated the effect of passive filters on harmonic currents occurred by massive power conversion system of HVDC.

본 논문에서는 정류 브리지 다이오드를 갖는 단상 무정전전원장치의 전원측 고조파 및 역률 개선을 위한 가변형 고조파 필터를 제안한다. 2레벨 이상의 전력변환방식을 적용한 무정전전원장치는 전원측 고조파 및 역률 특성이 우수한 반면, 전 브리지 방식의 무정전전원장치는 전원측에 제 3고조파, 제 5고조파, 제 7고조파 및 역률 저하를 심각하게 야기한다. 이에 따라 단상 전 브리지 동작에 의해 야기된 (2n+1)차 고조파 제거 및 역률 개선을 위한 가변형 고조파 필터를 제안하고자 한다. 제안한 가변형 고조파 필터의 성능을 평가하기 위해 다양한 시뮬레이션과 실험을 진행하여 타당성을 검증하였다.

This paper proposes a variable passive harmonic filter for reduction and improvement of harmonics and power factor of single-phase uninterruptible power supply(UPS) with full bridge rectifier. Recently, UPSs have excellent harmonic and power factor operation characteristics by applying 2-level or more levels of power conversion methods. On the other hand, the single-phase UPS of the full bridge rectifier seriously causes the third, fifth, and seventh harmonics, and the power factor reduction on the grid side. Therefore, we present a variable passive harmonic filter for eliminating (2n+1) order harmonics and improving the power factor generated by the full bridge rectifier operation. In order to evaluate the performance of the proposed variable harmonic filter, the its validity is verified by various simulations and experiments.