Design of Shunt Active Power Filter(APF)

Project Description:

1. Active Power filter: These are filters, which are used to perform the job of harmonic elimination. Harmonic in the Electrical system means that current and voltage are distorted and deviate from the sinusoidal waveform. The active power filters are used to filter out both higher and lower order harmonics in the power system.
2. Point of Common Coupling (PCC): The PCC is a point in an electrical system where multiple loads are connected.

Project Implementation:

1. At first study, some research works those have been accomplished by different researchers from different sources like IEEE Explorer digital library, science direct plus etc.
2. Prepare a summary of all the research paper related to the subject, which is the outcome of the literature survey.
3. Study the operation of an interleaved buck converter which you will use in the realization of APF.
4. Then design a controller, which will create the switching signal for the PMOSFET used for the realization of interleaved buck converter through digital circuits.
5. Perform simulation of your design in MATLAB/Simulink and obtain THD (Total Harmonic Distortion). Compare your result with IEEE standard 519.
6. Then compare your result between the half bridge and full bridge based APF (THD) outputs which you can obtain by FTT (Fast Fourier Transform) analysis.

Software requirements:

• MATLAB

• Active Power Filter