Operation of three-level single-phase half-bridge NPC inverter-based shunt active power filter under non-ideal grid voltage condition with sliding mode controller

In this paper, a new control method is presented for a single-phase three-level neutral point clamped half-bridge shunt active power filter with the aim of eliminating the grid current harmonics. It is shown that the proposed control method accurately detects the positive-sequence voltage component under distorted grid condition. With this feature, the performance of the single-phase active power filter under distorted grid voltage condition is improved considerably. Furthermore, the imbalance in the capacitor voltages which occurs in the half-bridge topology is eliminated by adding a feedback term to the current control loop. The performance of the proposed control method is verified by simulation results obtained from MATLAB/Simulink.

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