An Investigation of Method to Reduce Harmonic Components using Specific Harmonic Control Method

Abstract

Low Harmonic Components Elimination Method is effective to suppress the Harmonics of self-commutated converter. But this method can't control the harmonic voltage. Recently the technique have been proposed to control self-commutated converter as shunt active filter to suppress the harmonics voltage of power system, but this method can't be used for this purpose. In this paper, a new PWM method is proposed to control specific low harmonic component. The proposed method uses the approximate equation that was led from theoretical value. The proposed method turned out decreasing the total harmonic distortion of the power system more than conventional Low Harmonic Component Elimination Method by some experimental results employing STATCOM.