Comparative Analysis of UPQC With Various Hysteresis Current Controllers

Abstract

This paper deals the comparative analysis of a three-phase three wire Unified Power Quality Conditioner (UPQC) with various hysteresis current controllers. The UPQC is one among the custom power devices which is a integration of series and shunt active power filters (APF) connected by a common link capacitor. The construction of shunt and series APF is by using a three phase three wire Voltage source Inverter (VSI). In series active filter, synchronous reference frame technique is used to extract fundamental voltage; whereas in shunt active filters, instantaneous reactive power theory (IRPT) is used to extract fundamental current. Switching pulses for both filters generated by hysteresis current controller (HCC), multilevel vector based hysteresis current controller (MVHCC) and adaptive hysteresis current controller (AHCC).The performance of the various HCC based control algorithm of shunt active filter with series active filter is evaluated in a three-phase distribution system connected with non-linear and unbalanced load conditions. Fuzzy logic control is used for dc capacitance balancing. The control technique is executed by the use of MATLAB/Simulink-based simulations environment.