Control imrovement of shunt active power filter using an optimized-PI controller based on ant colony algorithm and swarm optimization

In the last years, there has been a increase currents harmonics on electrical network injected by nonlinear loads, such as rectifier equipment used in telecommunication system, power suppliers, domestic appliances, ect. This paper makes a comparison of the effectiveness of the two methods on particular optimization problem, namely. The tuning of the parameters for PI DC link voltage to a shunt active power filter. The simulation results demonstrates that the optimized PI controller by ant colony (ACO) presents a advantage of little response time and best control performances compared to the optimized PI with Particle swarm (PSO). This comparison is shown on redu cing harmonic current supply (THD)

Shunt Active Filter in Damping Harmonics Propagation

This paper deals with a hybrid shunt active power filter applied on 500 kV HVDC, after a description of the causes and effects harmonic pollution which may damage equipments and interrupt electric power customers service; in this paper we present the deferent solutions of this problem among one has to study the two most recent types of filtering: passive and hybrid filter. The hybrid filter consists of active filter connected in shunt with passive filter. The hybrid shunt active filter proposed is based on three levels PWM inverter and characterized by detecting the harmonic current flowing into the passive filter and controlled by notch algorithm. This structure has been applied on a test HVDC power system, is presented as a technical solution makes it possible to eliminate the disadvantages from passive filtering, and also economic price of active filtering part. The simulation results justified the effectiveness of this type of filter face of the classic passive filter