Title: Solar photovoltaic energy system-based shunt active filter for electrical energy quality improvement

Authors: Salem Saidi; Rabeh Abbassi; Wafa Ben Hassen; Souad Chebbi

Addresses: Laboratory of Technologies of Information and Communication and Electrical Engineering (LaTICE), National Higher School of Engineering of Tunis (ENSIT), University of Tunis, B.P. 56-1008 Bab Menara, Tunis, Tunisia ' Laboratory of Technologies of Information and Communication and Electrical Engineering (LaTICE), National Higher School of Engineering of Tunis (ENSIT), University of Tunis, B.P. 56-1008 Bab Menara, Tunis, Tunisia ' Laboratory of Technologies of Information and Communication and Electrical Engineering (LaTICE), National Higher School of Engineering of Tunis (ENSIT), University of Tunis, B.P. 56-1008 Bab Menara, Tunis, Tunisia ' Laboratory of Technologies of Information and Communication and Electrical Engineering (LaTICE), National Higher School of Engineering of Tunis (ENSIT), University of Tunis, B.P. 56-1008 Bab Menara, Tunis, Tunisia

Abstract: This article presents a harmonic compensation system using a photovoltaic generator (GPV) to improve the supply power quality. The proposed configuration is constituted by a grid connected three-phase inverter, a PV array and a nonlinear load formed by a bridge rectifier feeding a resistive load in series with an inductor. An indirect current control via the method of active and reactive power is proposed to compensate the harmonic currents and reactive power at the point of common coupling while injecting active power from the solar system to the grid. The perturb and observe (P&O) method has been applied to track the maximum power point. The proposed system simulation under MATLAB/Simulink environment proves the robustness of the proposed control approach that simultaneously guarantees the compensation of harmonic currents, the correction of the power factor and the injection of PV power to the grid.

Keywords: shunt active filter; SAF; photovoltaic generator; THD; total harmonic distortion; maximum power point tracking; MPPT; voltage source inverters; VSI; solar energy; solar power; electrical energy; power quality improvement; indirect current control.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSPM.2016.077339

International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling, 2016 Vol.11 No.2, pp.119 - 126

Received: 08 Jun 2015
Accepted: 20 Feb 2016

Published online: 28 Jun 2016 *

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