A control method for the active power filter in unsymmetrical voltage systems

In this paper, the authors propose a calculation method for the compensating current reference of the active power filter, where a nonlinear load exists in a three-phase, three-wire unsymmetrical voltage system. This new method has been named the extension pq method. The authors have experimented with the extension pq method and the pq method, using the same current-controlled intelligent power module inverter for both methods. The results of the experiments proved that in the unsymmetrical voltage system the source current was distorted in the case of the pq method, but undistorted in the case of the extension pq method.