TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Certificate i
Acknowledgement iii
Abstract iv
Table of contents v
List of Tables vii
List of Figures viii
List of Abbreviations x
Notations xi
Chapter 1: Introduction 1
1.1. Back ground 3
1.1.1 Power quality 3
1.1.2 Solutions to power quality problems 4
1.1.3 Power filter topologies 5
1.1.4 Voltage source converters 6
1.1.5 Control strategies 8
1.2. Objective 10
1.3. Thesis outline 11

Chapter 2: Shunt Active Power Filter 12

2.1. Basic compensation principle 13
2.2. Estimation of reference source current 15
2.3. Role of dc side capacitor 17
2.4. Selection of Lc and Vdcref 18
2.5. Design of dc side capacitor (Cdc) 19

Chapter 3: TYPE-1 fuzzy control scheme 20

3.1. TYPE-1 fuzzy logic basics 20
3.1.1. TYPE-1 Fuzzy sets. 20
3.1.2. TYPE-1 Fuzzy Membership Functions 21
3.1.3. Architecture of TYPE-1 Fuzzy logic system 22
3.1.4. Fundamental differences between Fuzzy and conventional 23

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 3.1.5. Advantages of FLCs over conventional controllers 23
3.2. TYPE-1 fuzzy control scheme 23
3.3. Basic TYPE-1 fuzzy algorithm 25
3.4. Design of control rules 31

Chapter 4: TYPE-2 fuzzy control scheme 38

4.1. TYPE-2 fuzzy logic basics 38
4.1.1. TYPE-2 Fuzzy sets 38
4.1.2. TYPE-2 fuzzy Membership Functions 38
4.1.3. Architecture of TYPE-2 Fuzzy logic system 39
4.1.4. Fundamental differences between TYPE-1 and TYPE-2 Fuzzy Logic 40
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4.1.5. Advantages of TYPE-2 Fuzzy Logic controllers. 41
4.2. TYPE-2 fuzzy control scheme 41
4.3. Basic TYPE-2 fuzzy algorithm 43
4.4. Design of control rules 49
Chapter 5: modeling of shunt active filter 56
5.1. Modeling of nonlinear load 56
5.2. Modeling of PWM converter 56
5.3. Estimation of peak supply current 57
5.4. Estimation of instantaneous reference supply currents 58
5.5. Hysteresis current controller 58
Chapter 6: Simulation results 60
Chapter 7: Conclusion 66
Scope of future work 66
List of publications 67
Paper: Investigation on shunt active filter with p-q theory 68
References 73

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 LIST OF TABLES

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Table 1 TYPE-1 Fuzzy Rule base table 27
Table 2 TYPE-2 Fuzzy Rule base table 45
Table 3 System parameters for simulation study 60

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 LIST OF FIGURES

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Figure 1.1.Voltage source converter topology for active filters 7
Figure 1.2.The PWM carrier Technique (triangular carrier) 8
Figure 2.1.Shunt active power filters topology 12
Figure 2.2. Basic compensation principle 13
Figure 2.3.Shunt active power filter basic compensation principle 14
Figure 2.4. SAPF shapes of load, source and desired filter current wave forms 14
Figure 2.5. Active power filter and its phasor diagram 18
Figure 3.1.TYPE-1 fuzzy triangular membership function 21
Figure 3.2. TYPE-1 fuzzy Gaussian membership function 21
Figure 3.3. Architecture of TYPE-1 FLSs 22
Figure 3.4. Schematic diagram of closed loop TYPE-1 fuzzy logic controlled SAPF 24
Figure 3.5. TYPE-1 Fuzzy Control scheme 25
Figure 3.6. Internal structure of TYPE-1 fuzzy logic controller 25
Figure 3.7. Different types of TYPE-1 membership functions 29
Figure 3.8. Normalized TYPE-1 triangular functions used in fuzzification 30
Figure 3.9. TYPE-1 FIS fuzzy interference system 31
Figure 3.10. TYPE-1 FIS editor 32
Figure 3.11. TYPE-1 Membership Function Editor 33
Figure 3.12. TYPE-1 Fuzzy Rule Editor 34
Figure 3.13. TYPE-1 Fuzzy Rule Viewer 35
Figure 3.14. TYPE-1 Fuzzy Surface Viewer 36
Figure 4.1. TYPE-2 Gaussian Membership Function 39
Figure 4.2. TYPE-2 Triangular Membership function 39
Figure 4.3. Architecture TYPE-2 FLSs 40
Figure 4.4.Schematic diagram of closed loop TYPE-2 fuzzy logic controlled SAPF 42
Figure 4.5. TYPE-2 Fuzzy Control scheme 43
Figure 4.6. Internal structure of TYPE-2 fuzzy logic controller algorithm 43
Figure 4.7. Different TYPE-2 membership functions 47
Figure 4.8. Normalized TYPE-2 triangular functions used in fuzzification 49

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Figure 4.9. TYPE-2 FIS fuzzy interference system 50
Figure 4.10. TYPE-2 FIS editor 51
Figure 4.11. TYPE-2 Membership Function Editor 52
Figure 4.12. TYPE-2 Fuzzy Rule Editor 53
Figure 4.13. TYPE-2 Fuzzy Rule Viewer 54
Figure 4.14. TYPE-2 Fuzzy Surface Viewer 55
Figure 5.1. Hysteresis current controller 59
Figure 6.1. Three Phase Source voltage. 61
Figure 6.2. Load Current = Source current when the compensator is not connected 61
Figure 6.3. Compensating Filter current with TYPE-1 Fuzzy controller 62
Figure 6.4. Compensating Filter current with TYPE-2 Fuzzy controller 62
Figure 6.5. Source phase current with TYPE-1 Fuzzy controller 63
Figure 6.6. Source phase current with TYPE-2 Fuzzy controller 63
Figure 6.7. DC side capacitor voltage TYPE-1 Fuzzy controller 64
Figure 6.8. DC side capacitor voltage TYPE-2 Fuzzy controller 64
Figure 6.9. THD source current spectrum for TYPE-1 Fuzzy controller 66
Figure 6.10. THD source current spectrum for TYPE-2 Fuzzy controller 66

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 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

PCC - Point of Common Coupling

VSI - Voltage Source Inverter
APF - Active Power Filter
RMS - Root Mean Square
THD - Total Harmonic Distortion
TDD - Total Demand Distortion
ASD - Adjustable Speed Drive
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IEC - International Electrotechnical Commission
SVC - Static VAR Compensator
PWM - Pulse Width Modulation
MV - Medium Voltage
HV - High Voltage
EHV - Extra High Voltage
UPS - Uninterruptible Power Supply
MOSFET - Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor
GTO - Gate Turn Off thyristor
SCR - Silicon Controlled Rectifier
IGBT - Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor
SRF - Synchronous Reference Frame
HPF - High Pass Filter
LPF - Low Pass Filter
HV - High Voltage
EHV - Extra High Voltage
CSC - Current Source Converter
VSC - Voltage Source Converter
UPQC - Unified Power Quality Conditioner
FFT - Fast Fourier Transform
PLL - Phase Locked Loop

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 NOTATIONS

- Firing angle
- Angular speed
- Conduction angle
- Loss factor
Vn - rms value of nth harmonic
h - Order of harmonic
p - Instantaneous active power
q - Instantaneous reactive power
- Average active power
- Oscillating active power
- Average reactive power
- Oscillating reactive power
po - Zero sequence power
ma - Amplitude modulation index
mf - Frequency modulation index

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