Abstract:
Active power filters (APF) have been developed for over the past thirty years as a
possible replacement for passive L-C power filters. Over the course of its development,
many configurations have been designed. The shunt active power filter is one type of
active power filter. A detailed generic development system for Shunt Active Power
Filter is introduced in this paper, and its simulation model is presented in MATLAB /
Simulink environment. The model presented considers several issues like: the practical
range and accuracy limitations on the obtained real world measurements by the real time
controller, a proposed starting procedure for the APF to as a self-tuning technique and
an improved zero crossing compensator independent of the sampling frequency. Also, a
new space vector based control algorithm is tested on this model and its simulation
results are presented.