Active Power Line Conditioners

Book description

Active Power Line Conditioners: Design, Simulation and Implementation for Improving Power Quality presents a rigorous theoretical and practical approach to active power line conditioners, one of the subjects of most interest in the field of power quality. Its broad approach offers a journey that will allow power engineering professionals, researchers, and graduate students to learn more about the latest landmarks on the different APLC configurations for load active compensation.

By introducing the issues and equipment needs that arise when correcting the lack of power quality in power grids, this book helps define power terms according to the IEEE Standard 1459. Detailed chapters discuss instantaneous reactive power theory and the theoretical framework that enabled the practical development of APLCs, in both its original and modified formulations, along with other proposals.

Different APLCs configurations for load compensation are explored, including shunt APF, series APF, hybrid APF, and shunt combined with series APF, also known as UPQC. The book includes simulation examples carefully developed and ready for download from the book’s companion website, along with different case studies where real APLCs have been developed.

Finally, the new paradigm brought by the emergence of distribution systems with dispersed generation, such as the use of small power units based on gas technology or renewable energy sources, is discussed in a chapter where mitigation technologies are addressed in a distributed environment.

  • Combines the development of theories, control strategies, and the most widespread practical implementations of active power line conditioners, along with the most recent new approaches
  • Details updated and practical content on periodic disturbances mitigation technologies with special emphasis on distributed generation systems
  • Includes over 28 practical simulation examples in Matlab-Simulink which are available for download at the book’s companion website, with 4 reproducible case studies from real APLCs

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Dedication
  5. Copyright
  6. Preface
  7. About the Authors
  8. 1: Introduction to Power Quality from Power Conditioning
    1. Abstract
    2. 1.1. Introduction
    3. 1.2. Power Quality
    4. 1.3. Nonlinear Loads Model
    5. 1.4. Active Power Line Conditioners
    6. 1.5. Summary
  9. 2: Electrical Power Terms in the IEEE Std 1459 Framework
    1. Abstract
    2. 2.1. Introduction
    3. 2.2. Apparent Power and Power Factor in Distorted and Unbalanced Systems: The Background
    4. 2.3. IEEE Working Group on Nonsinusoidal Situations
    5. 2.4. Standard IEEE 1459
    6. 2.5. A Practical Case
    7. 2.6. Discussions and Conclusions
    8. 2.7. Summary
  10. 3: Instantaneous Reactive Power Theory
    1. Abstract
    2. 3.1. Introduction
    3. 3.2. Original Instantaneous Reactive Power Formulation
    4. 3.3. Modified Instantaneous Reactive Power Formulation
    5. 3.4. Other Approaches: Synchronous Frames
    6. 3.5. Dual Instantaneous Reactive Power
    7. 3.6. Summary
  11. 4: Shunt Active Power Filters
    1. Abstract
    2. 4.1. Introduction
    3. 4.2. Fundamentals of Shunt Active Power Filters, APFs
    4. 4.3. Shunt APF Structure
    5. 4.4. Compensation Strategies
    6. 4.5. Practical Design Considerations
    7. 4.6. Experimental Prototype of APF
    8. 4.7. Summary
  12. 5: Series Active Power Filters
    1. Abstract
    2. 5.1. Introduction
    3. 5.2. Series Active Power Filters
    4. 5.3. Design of SAF from State Space
    5. 5.4. Experimental Prototype of SAF
    6. 5.5. Summary
  13. 6: Hybrid Filters: Series Active Power Filters and Shunt Passive Filters
    1. Abstract
    2. 6.1. Introduction
    3. 6.2. Series Active Filters and Shunt Passive Filters
    4. 6.3. State Model of SAPPF
    5. 6.4. Experimental Prototype of SAPPF
    6. 6.5. Summary
  14. 7: Combined Shunt and Series Active Power Filters
    1. Abstract
    2. 7.1. Introduction
    3. 7.2. Unified Power Quality Conditioner
    4. 7.3. Experimental Prototype of UPQC
    5. 7.4. Universal Active Power Line Conditioner
    6. 7.5. Summary
  15. 8: Distributed Generation
    1. Abstract
    2. 8.1. Introduction
    3. 8.2. Different Technologies for Distributed Generation
    4. 8.3. Power Flow Control of a Distributed Generation
    5. 8.4. Distributed Generation Impact in Power Quality
    6. 8.5. Distribution Line Compensation
    7. 8.6. Power Quality Improvement in Distributed Environment
    8. 8.7. Summary
  16. Appendix I: Simulink Schemes
  17. Appendix II: Experimental Implementations
  18. Index

Product information

  • Title: Active Power Line Conditioners
  • Author(s): Patricio Salmeron Revuelta, Salvador Pérez Litrán, Jaime Prieto Thomas
  • Release date: July 2015
  • Publisher(s): Academic Press
  • ISBN: 9780128032176