Comparative analysis of a cascaded seven level and five level mli based distribution

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COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF A CASCADED SEVEN LEVEL AND
FIVE LEVEL MLI BASED DISTRIBUTION STATCOM FOR
COMPENSATION OF HARMONICS AND REACTIVE POWER USING
REFERENCE FRAME THEORY
D.MOHAN REDDY1
, Dr.T.GOWRIMANOHAR2
1
(Department of EEE, Sri Vasavi Institute of Engg & Tech., Machilipatnam, Krishna Dist,
India)
2
(Department of EEE, SVU, Tirupati, Chittoor Dist, India)
ABSTRACT
The general structure of the multilevel converter is to synthesize a sinusoidal voltage
from several levels of voltages, Multilevel voltage source converters are emerging as a new
breed of power converter options for high power applications, These converter topologies can
generate high-quality voltage waveforms with power semiconductor switches operating at a
frequency near the fundamental. The “multilevel converter” has drawn tremendous interest in
the power industry. Among the available multilevel converter topologies, the cascaded
multilevel converter constitutes a promising alternative, providing a modular design that can
be extended to allow a transformer less connection. This paper presents a three-phase, five-
level and seven level cascaded multilevel voltage source inverter based active filter for power
line conditioning to improve power quality in the distribution network. The active filter
compensates both reactive power and harmonic currents drawn by non-linear loads;
additionally it facilitates power factor corrections. The compensation process is based on
concept of p-q theory. This proposed cascaded five level and seven level active power filter
system is validated through MATLAB/SIMULINK.
Keywords: Cascaded H- Bridge Multilevel Inverter, Distribution STATCOM
(DSTATCOM), Reference Frame theory, Power quality, PWM, Triangular-sampling current
modulator.
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I. INTRODUCTION
Electrical Power Quality had obtained more attention in power engineering in recent
years. In present day’s power distribution systems is suffering from severe power quality
problems. These power quality problems include high reactive power burden, harmonics
currents, load unbalance, excessive neutral current etc. The measure of power quality
depends upon the needs of the equipment that is being supplied. What is good power quality
for an electric motor may not be good enough for a personal computer. Usually the term
power quality refers to maintaining a sinusoidal waveform of bus voltages at rated voltage
and frequency [1]. The waveform of electric power at generation stage is purely sinusoidal
and free from any distortion. Many of the Power conversion and consumption equipment are
also designed to function under pure sinusoidal voltage waveforms. However, there are many
devices that distort the waveform. These distortions may propagate all over the electrical
network. In recent years, there has been an increased use of non-linear loads which has
resulted in an increased fraction of non-sinusoidal currents and voltages in Electric Network.
The wave shape phenomena associated with power quality may be characterized into
synchronous and non synchronous phenomena. Synchronous phenomena refer to those in
synchronism with A.C waveform at power frequency [2],[3].A group of controllers together
called Custom Power Devices (CPD), which include the DSTATCOM (distribution static
compensator), The DSTATCOM, is a shunt-connected device, which takes care of the
power quality problems in the currents It consists of a dc capacitor, three-phase inverter
(IGBT, thyristor) module, ac filter, coupling transformer and a control strategy. The basic
electronic block of the D-STATCOM is the voltage-sourced inverter that converts an input dc
voltage into a three-phase output voltage at fundamental frequency. The D-STACOM
employs an inverter to convert the DC link voltage Vdc on the capacitor to a voltage source
of adjustable magnitude and phase. Therefore the D-STATCOM can be treated as a voltage-
controlled source. The D-STATCOM can also be seen as a current-controlled source. The
generalized instantaneous reactive power theory which is valid for sinusoidal or non-
sinusoidal and balanced or unbalanced three-phase power systems with or without zero-
sequence currents were later proposed [4-8]. The construction controller of the D-STATCOM
is used to operate the inverter in such a way that the phase angle between the inverter voltage
and the line voltage is dynamically adjusted so that the D-STATCOM generates or absorbs
the desired VAR at the point of connection. The phase of the output voltage of the thyristor-
based inverter, Vi, is controlled in the same way as the distribution system voltage, Vs.
The DSTATCOM is based on the instantaneous real-power theory; it provides good
compensation characteristics in steady state as well as transient states [9-11]. The
instantaneous real-power theory generates the reference currents required to compensate the
distorted line current harmonics and reactive power. It also tries to maintain the dc-bus
voltage across the capacitor constant. Another important characteristic of this real-power
theory is the simplicity of the calculations, which involves only algebraic calculation [12-16]
.A multilevel inverter, can reduce the device voltage and the output harmonics by increasing
the number of output voltage levels.
There are several types of multilevel inverters: cascaded H-bridge (CHB), neutral
point clamped, flying capacitor. In particular, among these topologies, CHB inverters are
being widely used because of their modularity and simplicity. Various modulation methods
can be applied to CHB inverters. CHB inverters can also increase the number of output
voltage levels easily by increasing the number of H-bridges. This paper presents a

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DSTATCOM with a proportional integral controller based CHB multilevel (five level and
seven level) inverter for the harmonics and reactive power mitigation of the nonlinear loads.
This type of arrangements have been widely used for PQ applications due to increase in the
number of voltage levels, low switching losses, higher order harmonic elimination and low
electromagnetic compatibility for hybrid filters.
II. PROPOSED SYSTEM
Fig 1: Schematic Diagram of DSTATCOM
Instantaneous real-power theory based cascaded multilevel inverter based
DSTATCOM is connected in the distribution network at the PCC through filter inductances
and operates in a closed loop. The DSTATCOM system contains a cascaded inverter, RL-
filters, a compensation controller (instantaneous real-power theory) and switching signal
generator (proposed triangular-sampling current modulator) as shown in the Fig 1. The three-
phase supply source connected with non-linear load and these nonlinear loads currents
contains fundamental and harmonic components. If the active power filter provides the total
reactive and harmonic power, is (t) will be in phase with the utility voltage and would be
sinusoidal. At this time, the active filter must provide the compensation current therefore,
active power filter estimates the fundamental components and compensating the harmonic
current and reactive power.

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A. Five level CHB Inverter
Fig.2 Five level CHB inverter
Fig 2 Shows the five level multilevel inverter and Table I shows the switching states
of the 5 level inverter. Here even though we have eight switches at any switching state only
two switches are on/off at a voltage level of Vdc/2, so switching losses are reduced. In three
level inverter dv/dt is Vdc, but in five level inverter dv/dt is Vdc/2. As dv/dt reduces the
stress on switches reduces and EMI reduces.
Table I Switching table for Full H-Bridge of five level inverter
Switches Turn ON Voltage Level
S1,S2,S6,S8 Vdc/2
S1,S2,S5,S6 Vdc
S2, S4,S6,S8 0
S3,S4,S6,S8 -Vdc/2
S3,S4,S7,S8 -Vdc

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B. Seven level CHB Inverter
Fig. 3 Seven level CHB inverter
Fig 3 Shows the seven level multilevel inverter and Table shows the switching states of the
seven level inverter.Table I Switching table for Full H-Bridge of seven level inverter
Switches Turn ON Voltage Level
S1,S2,S6,S8,S10,S12 Vdc/3
S1,S2,S5,S6,S10,S12 2Vdc/3
S1,S2,S5,S6,S9,S10 Vdc
S2,S4,S6,S8,S10,S12 0
S3,S4,S6,S8 S10,S12 -Vdc/3
S3,S4,S7,S8,S10,S12 -2Vdc/3
S3,S4,S7,S8,S11,S12 -Vdc
III. REFERENCE CURRENT CONTROL STRATEGY
The control scheme of the shunt active power filter must calculate the current
reference signals from each phase of the inverter using instantaneous real-power
compensator. The block diagram as shown in Fig.3, that control scheme generates the
reference current required to compensate the load current harmonics and reactive power. The
PI controller is tried to maintain the dc-bus voltage across the capacitor constant of the

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cascaded inverter. This instantaneous real- power compensator with PI-controller is used to
extracts reference value of current to be compensated.
Fig 4: Reference current generator using instantaneous real-power theory
These reference currents isa*, isb *and isc * are calculated instantaneously without any
time delay by using the instantaneous α,β coordinate currents. The required references
current derivate from the inverse Clarke transformation and it can be written as
(1)
The p-q theory performs a Clarke transformation of a stationary system of coordinates
a bc to an orthogonal reference system of coordinatesα ,β . In a bc coordinates axes are fixed
on the same plane, apart from each other by 1200
that as shown in Fig 2. The instantaneous
space vectors voltage and current Va , ia are set on the a-axis, Vb , ib are on the b axis, and
Vc , ic are on the c axis. These space vectors are easily transformed into α ,βcoordinates. The
instantaneous source voltages vsa, vsb, vsc are transformed into the α ,βcoordinate’s voltage
Vα, Vβby Clarke transformation as follows:
(2)
Similarly, the instantaneous source current isa, isb, isc also transformed into theα ,β
coordinate’s current iα iβ by Clarke transformation that is given as:
(3 a)

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Where α and βaxes are the orthogonal coordinates. They Vα, iαare on the α-axis, and Vβ ,
iβare on the β-axis. The reference currents isa*, isb * and isc * are compared with actual source
current isa , isb and isc that facilitates generating cascaded multilevel inverter switching signals
using the proposed triangular-sampling current modulator. The small amount of real-power is
adjusted by changing the amplitude of fundamental component of reference currents and the
objective of this algorithm is to compensate all undesirable components. When the power
system voltages are balanced and sinusoidal, it leads to constant power at the dc bus capacitor
and balanced sinusoidal currents at AC mains simultaneously. The orthogonal coordinates of
voltage and current vα,iαare on theα -axis and vβ , iβare on the β -axis. Let the instantaneous
real-power calculated from the α -axis and β - axis of the current and voltage respectively.
These are given by the conventional definition of real-power as :
(3 b)
IV. MATLAB/SIMULINK MODELING AND SIMULATION RESULTS
Here the simulation is carried out by three cases
1. Non-linear load Without Filter
2. Non-linear load with five level cascaded multilevel Active power filter
3. Non-linear load with seven level Cascaded multilevel Active power filter.
Case 1: Nonlinear load without Active power Filter
Fig 5: Matlab/Simulink model of nonlinear load without active filter

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Fig-6 shows the three phase source voltages, three phase source currents and load
currents respectively without active power filter. It is clear that without Active power filter
load current and source currents are same.
Fig 6: Source voltage, Source current, Load current
Case 2:. Non-linear load with five level cascaded multilevel Active power filter
The performance of the proposed instantaneous real-power compensator cascaded
five level multilevel inverter based active power filter is evaluated through Matlab/Simulink
tools. The non-linear diode rectifier R-L load is connected with ac mains and cascaded active
filter is connected in parallel at the PCC for injecting the anti-harmonics and eliminating the
harmonics and improving the Reactive power.
Fig 7: Matlab/Simulink Model of Nonlinear load with Five level Cascaded multilevel Active
power filter

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currents respectively with Cascaded Multilevel five level Active power filter. It is clear that
with Active power filter load current are same and source currents are compensated.
Fig 9: Five level output Voltage
Fig 9 Shows the Five level output voltage, when system is connected to cascaded five
level multilevel active power filter.
Fig-10 Harmonic spectrum of Phase-A Source current with Five level Active power filter

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Fig-10 shows the harmonic spectrum of Phase –A Source current with cascaded Multilevel
Five level active power filter. The THD of source current with seven level active filter is
7.34%.
Case 3: Non-linear load with Seven level Cascaded multilevel Active power filter
currents respectively with Cascaded Multilevel Seven level Active power filter. It is clear
that with Active power filter load current are same and source currents are compensated.Fig
12 Shows the Seven level output voltage , when system is connected to cascaded five level
multilevel active power filter.
Fig 12. Seven level output Voltage

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Fig 13 shows the power factor waveforms of the designed system without DSTATCOM. The
waveform clearly shows that there is no unity power factor.
Fig 13: Power Factor without DSTATCOM
Fig 14: Unity power Factor with DSTATCOM connected
Fig 14 shows the power factor waveforms of the designed system with DSTATCOM.
The waveform clearly shows that there is unity power factor where both the voltage and
current are in phase.
Fig 15: Harmonic spectrum of Phase-A Source current with Seven level Active power filter
Fig15 shows the harmonic spectrum of Phase –A Source current with cascaded Multilevel
Seven level active power filter. The THD of source current with seven level active filter is
4.37%.

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V. CONCLUSION
A five-level and seven level cascaded multilevel voltage source inverter based active
filter using instantaneous real-power controller is found to be an effective solution for power
line conditioning. Shunt active filter with the proposed controller reduces harmonics and
provides reactive power compensation due to non-linear load currents; as a result source
currents become sinusoidal and unity power factor is also achieved under both transient and
steady state conditions. The proposed instantaneous real-power controller uses reduced
computation for reference current calculations compared to conventional approach. The
cascaded inverter switching signals are generated using triangular-sampling current
controller; it provides a dynamic performance under transient and steady state conditions. As
evident from the simulation studies, dc bus capacitor voltage settles early and has minimal
ripple because of the presence of PI-controller. The THD of the source current when five
level active power filter is 7.34% after compensation is used Seven level active power filter
4.34% which is less than 5%, the harmonic limit imposed by the IEEE-519 standard.
Table III: System Specifications
S.No System Parameters Rating
1 voltage 11kv,50Hz
2 Inductance 0.9e-3h
3 Resistance 0.1ohm
4 Load R=60,L=30e-3
5 Inverter Parameters DC Link voltage=14kv
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AUTHORS
Mr. D. Mohan Reddy received the B.Tech. Degree in Electrical and
Electronics Engineering from the JNT University, Hyderabad, India and he
received the M.E Power Systems Engineering from Anna University
Chennai and presently pursuing PhD from S.V.University,Tirupati,India.
Presently he is working as an Associate Professor in the department of
Electrical and Electronics Engineering in Sri Vasavi Institute of
Engineering and Technology, Machilipatnam. His research areas of
interests are Power Electronic Converters, Electrical Drives and Power Quality.
Dr T. Gowri Manohar received the B.Tech, M.Tech and PhD Degrees
in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the S.V.University, Tirupati,
India. Presently he is working as an Associate Professor in the department of
Electrical and Electronics Engineering S.V.University, Tirupati, India. He is
having 15 years of teaching experience and he was published more than 65
numbers of various international and national conferences & journals. He is a
senior Member of IEEE and also he is a member in Indian Society for
Technical Education. His research areas of interests are Modern Restructured Power Systems,
Electrical Power Semi-Conductor Drives and Power Quality and harmonics –issues &
challenges.

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