Filter Design Of Power Converters

Mr. Samant Singh

(MT18EEE005)

Supervisor: Dr. Sourav Bose

Department of Electrical Engineering

National Institute Of Technology, Uttarakhand

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 Overview

Introduction
Harmonics
Why Filter is required?
Types of filters
Types of passive filters
harmonic analysis of lc filter using PWM
Limitations of passive filters
References

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 INTRODUCTION

Filters are required to mitigate the harmonics introduced into the

system injected due to non linear loads and power electronic
converters
Xerox machine behaves as non linear load
With the use of filters higher order harmonics are attenuated

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 HARMONICS

Harmonics are mathematical term to identify the waves which differ

from pure sinusoidal
Any non sinusoidal component will have fundamental and higher
frequencies plus a dc term using fourier analysis
It is known that current flows in two directions. any power electronic
converter contains devices like diode thyristors etc.which block a
portion of flowing current which makes it non sinusoidal

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 Harmonic types

Due to non linear loads current harmonics are injected into the system
Inverters and power electronic converters inject voltage harmonics in
the system
When saying injects harmonics it may inject or drain current harmonic
from the system

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 TYPES OF FILTERS

Passive
Passive filters use simple energy storing elements with different
configuration
active
Active filters use energy storing elements with source and power
electronic devices

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 Types of passive filters

Figure 1

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 Continued...

Figure 2: Series passive tuned: (a) single tuned; (b) double tuned

Figure 3: Shunt passive damped: (a) first order; (b) second order; (c) third order;
(d) C-type

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 Potential uses of passive filters

Voltage Harmonics
Regulation of terminal voltage
To suppress voltage flicker
to attenuate switching harmonics
Smoothening of voltage waveform

Note: According to IEEE 1547 total harmonic distortion should be

less than 5 per.

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 Simulation results

Figure 4

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 Figure 5

Figure 6
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 THD analysis of LC compensated 3phase inverter using
PWM

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 Figure 8

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 Limitations of passive filters

Passive filters are not adaptable to varying system condition and

remain rigid once they are installed.
Size and tuned frequency can not be altered easily
Change of operating condition may result in detuning of filters and
may cause increased distortion.
These filters are affected by source inductance and can cause sub
synchronous resonance.

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 References

Hea-Gwang Jeong, Kyo-Beum Lee, Sewan Choi and Woojin Choi,

Performance Improvement of LCLFilter-Based Grid-Connected
Inverters Using PQR Power Transformation, IEEE Transactions on
Power Electronics,2009.
olmesD.G.,LipoT.A: Pulse Width Modulation for Power Converters:
Principles and Practice. IEEE Press Series on Power Engineering,
Wiley-IEEE Press, Edition 1 October 2003.

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 continued...

B.P.McGrath and Holmes, Multicarrier PWM strategies for multilevel

inverter, IEEE Trans.Ind.Electron., vol.49, no.4,pp.858-867. Aug.2002

Dahono, P. A., Purwadi, A. e Qamaruzzaman, An LC Filter Design

Method for Single-Phase PWM Inverters, Proceedings of 1995
International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems.
PEDS 95, v. 2, pp. 571-576.

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