للكاتبين :
Tarek Kandil, Mohamed Askoura and El-Said A. Osman
Al-Azhar University, Electrical Department
Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt
ABSTRACT
In recent years there has been an increasing concern over the introduction of current harmonics in power
supply systems owing to the use of nonlinear loads. However, conventional filtering techniques, which
use passive filters, are inflexible because they cannot cope with variations in the filtering requirements
as the load and system conditions vary. This has resulted in considerable interest in the development of
active filtering techniques. This paper presents an assessment of the existing switched capacitor (SC)
filter approaches to provide a broad perspective of the SC topology to researchers and application
engineers dealing with power quality issues. Furthermore, it presents a brief description of a switched
capacitor (SC) technique that was developed to mitigate the drawbacks of the existing SC filters [1]. A
simple hysteresis-band-current controller that requires three bi-directional switches is used.
Simulation results, based on PSCAD modeling of the proposed compensation scheme are presented. It is shown that the
proposed scheme is simple, and capable of maintaining sinusoidal source current for extreme load harmonic distortions.
Finally the theoretical analysis is verified by experimental results on a laboratory prototype.