DESIGN A FUZZY LOGIC CONTROLLER TO CONTROL ACTIVE POWER FILTER FED BY MULTILEVEL INVERTER AND PHOTOVOLTAIC
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2023-09-11
Authors
Ghadeer Ahmad Abduh
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New electrical systems commonly use nonlinear loads, which increase harmonic pollution in the primary power system.
When power electronic equipment with semi-conductors is utilized, harmonic currents occur, affecting quality of power and generating non-sinusoidal currents taken from the AC sources. This result in a current discontinuity and an increase in the system's harmonics.
Harmony in the power network generates a variety of issues, including voltage deformities at the Point of Common Coupling (PCC), altering peak and RMS values of line used, and a variety of other issues.
In addition to the challenges caused by harmonic current, reactive power is another problem with the quality of the electricity in the power system. To improve the quality of the power delivered to the network, electrical filters must be employed to cancel harmonics and reactive power.
The power quality is developed using a variety of filter topologies, including passive, active, and hybrid.
A shunt active filter is employed in this project to increase the quality of the electric power. This active filter can perform a variety of tasks, including reducing harmonics, adjusting reactive energy, improving Power Factor (PF), inserting real power source.
The primary goal of this project is to apply a fuzzy logic controller to optimize the performance of the Shunt Active Power Filter in order to lower harmonic distortion. To decrease the harmonic current and raise the power factor to unity, the Fuzzy Logic Controller for the three-phase Shunt Active Power Filter is intended to replace the Proportional Integral controller.
The results were confirmed from the calculated values of the THD of the source currents. The THD was reduced from 16.67% before using the APF to 2.62 % after using the APF for PI controller and 16.67% to 1.42% for FLC. These results of the THD for FLC is even better than the results obtain of PI controller.
MATLAB/SIMULINK has been used in this study to combine various renewable energy sources with a 27-level H-Bridge multi-level inverter with a shunt active power filter. The system has been built to function in a variety of operational scenarios.
Keywords: Fuzzy Logic Controller, Shunt Active Power Filter, Photovoltaic,Multilevel Inverter, Total Harmonic Distortion.