Design considerations and predictive direct current control of Active Regenerative Rectifiers for harmonic and current ripple reduction

This paper proposes a general and an improved methodology for the design of the passive elements of Active Regenerative Rectifiers (ARR). The proposed strategy for the L-filter is based on the current area error in the time domain and on the high order current harmonics in the frequency domain. This strategy is independent of the type of control technique and it can be implemented for different modulation techniques. Moreover, it can be extended to different converters and, under certain small considerations, to Active Power Filters (APF). For purposes of the technique explanation and practical demonstration, a two-level three-phase voltage source converter (VSC) with PWM is used in this work. Also in this paper, a predictive direct current control technique (PDCC) is presented. The control technique provides fast dynamic, high performance under diverse operation conditions and parameter independency. The combination between the proposed design and control technique lends to significant reduction on the current harmonics content and ripple. Furthermore, simulation and experimental results corroborate the ability of the proposed design procedure and the accuracy the PDCC.

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