• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.883-887
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• 1998

The goal of this paper is to present an instantaneous compensating power flow of active power filter(APF) by graphical method that could be practicable to compensate the power in both case of behaving in an instantaneous rectifying mode and an instantaneous inverting mode. To ensure the validity of the proposed method, computer simulation is achieved. Proposed method can be present more exquisite and physically meaningful power flow than conventional method in the instantaneous compensating power flow diagram of APF.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.151-160
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• 2017

This paper presents a new technique of reference current generator based on Kalman filter (KF) estimator for three-phase shunt active power filter (APF). The stationary reference frame (d-q algorithm) is used to transform the load currents into DC component. The harmonics of load currents are extracted and the three-phase reference currents are generated using KF estimator. The work is simulated using Matlab/Simulink platform. To validate the simulation results, an experimental test-rig have been perform using real-time control dSPACE DS1104. In addition, hysteresis current control was used to generate the switching signal for the correction of the harmonics in the system. The non-linear load were constructed with three-phase rectifier which connected in series with inductor and parallel with resistor and capacitor. The results shows that the new technique of shunt APF embedded with KF is proven to eliminate the harmonics created by the non-linear load with some improvement on the total harmonics distortion (THD).

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.365-376
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• 2009

In this paper, the implementation of a three-phase shunt active power filter is presented. The filter is essentially three independent single-phase current-controlled voltage source inverters (CC-VSI) with a common DC bus. The CC- VSI is operated to directly control the AC grid current to be sinusoidal and in phase with the grid voltage without detecting the load currents. The APF consists of a current control loop, which shapes the grid currents to be sinusoidal and a voltage control loop, which regulates the active power balance of the system. The experimental results indicate that the active filter is able to handle predominantly the harmonics, as well as the unbalance and reactive power, so that the grid currents are sinusoidal, in phase with the grid voltages and symmetrical.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.173-179
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• 2004

This paper describes a low-cost single-phase active power filter, which consists of a half-bridge PWM inverter with a simple control circuit. In order to verify the performance of proposed active power filter, many computer simulations with EMTP codes and experimental works with a hardware prototype were done. Both results confirm that the proposed active power filter shows excellent performance to eliminate the harmonics generated in the single-phase non-linear load. The active power filter has advantage of low implementation cost and compact size, using a half-bridge inverter and a simple control circuit with only one current sensor. So, it can be fabricated as a plug-in type. This paper shows the necessity and a good possibility to apply such advantage to the electric railway system.

• Electric Engineers Magazine
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• s.382
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• pp.32-35
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• 2014

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1999.07f
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• pp.2470-2474
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• 1999

The main drawback of parallel type active power filters (APFs) is the large capacity required for harmonic compensation. This paper evaluates the APF capacity requirement for harmonic/reactive power compensation for thyristor converter load. Theoretically achievable maximum power factor under partial load is evaluated. it is shown that the APF capacity can be considerably reduced by deliberately limiting the peak current, while maintaining the filtering performance with an acceptable total harmonic current level. the minimum capacity requirement of APF with current limiting is evaluated as a function of the firing angle of thyristor converter and short circuit ratio(SCR).

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.861-876
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• 2013

Instead of extracting every selected harmonic component, the current reference of selective active power filter (APF) can be also obtained by filtering out the fundamental component from distorted load current for computation efficiency. This type of mixed current reference contains kinds of harmonic components and easily involves noises. In this condition, selective harmonic compensation must be realized by the current controller. With regard that selectivity is the most significant feature of controller, this paper presents specific comparison analysis between two types of resonant controllers: proportional-resonant (PR) controller and vector-resonant (VR) controller. The comparison analysis covers the relations, performances, and stability of both controllers. Analysis results conclude that the poorer selectivity of the PR controller could be relatively improved, but limitations from system stability make the improvement hardly realized. By contrast, the VR controller exhibits excellent selectivity and is more suitable for selective APF with mixed current reference. Experimental results from laboratory prototype validate the reasonability of analysis. And the features of each resonant controller are concluded.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.265-277
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• 2019

The application of shunt active power filters (S-APFs) is considered to be the most popular approach for harmonic compensation due to its high simplicity, ease of installation and efficient control. Its functionality mainly depends upon the rapidness and precision of its internally built control algorithms. A S-APF is generally operated in the current controlled mode (CCM) with the detection of harmonic load current. Its operation may not be appropriate for the distributed power generation system (DPGS) due to the wide dispersion of nonlinear loads. Despite the fact that the voltage detection based resistive-APF (R-APF) appears to be more appropriate for use in the DPGS, the R-APF experiences poor performance in terms of mitigating harmonics and parameter tuning. Therefore, this paper introduces a direct harmonic voltage detection based control approach for the S-APF that does not need a remote harmonic load current since it only requires a local point of common coupling (PCC) voltage for the detection of harmonics. The complete design procedure of the proposed control approach is presented. In addition, experimental results are given in detail to validate the performance and superiority of the proposed method over the conventional R-APF control. Thus, the outcomes of this study approve the predominance of the discussed strategy.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2002.07b
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• pp.1024-1026
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• 2002

The active power filter(APF) is a good solution for elimination of harmonics, which is produced by the nonlinear loads such as static power converter, computer and so on. Our trademark of APF is a POSAPF-series, which was applied to Samsung Electronics corp, in January 2002, and which lines up from 50A to 500A. This equipment reduces total demanded distortion (TDD) by 2${\sim}$3%, which originally 11${\sim}$13%. This paper discusses the harmonic regulation, measurement and analysis, and describes control theories and design methods of POSAPF-series, and, finally, shows the experimental results of a real system.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2014.07a
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• pp.391-392
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 Active Power Filter (APF)에서 고조파 전류 보상을 위해 널리 사용되는 Repetitive 제어기의 구현방식을 비교한다. 샘플링 주파수가 높을수록 고조파 보상능력이 증가되는데 기존 Repetitive 제어 방식을 디지털 Canonical 형태로 표현하게 되면 낮은 샘플링 주파수를 가지는 시스템에서는 문제가 없으나 샘플링 주파수가 높은 경우에는 계산시간이 줄어들어 제어기가 정상동작을 하지 않게 된다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 높은 샘플링 주파수에서도 제어기 동작이 가능한 디지털 Repetitive 제어기 구현에 대해 제안하고 5kW Active Power Filter 시제품을 통해 제안한 방식의 우수성을 검증하였다.