Intelligent Tuned Hybrid Power Filter with Fuzzy-PI Control

Abstract

With the growing impact of power regulators, machines, and other power electronic devices on the quality of utility electric service, harmonics has recently emerged as a major research topic in the area of power quality and energy consumption. In this work, a fuzzy intelligent inductor–capacitor–inductor hybrid power filter is designed to reduce harmonics in the distribution line. The shunt active power filter and passive filter design and consideration have been improved. Since the nature of proportional integral control is only efficient with linear variations and the real condition of the distribution system is always varying nonlinearly, to create a minimum steady error, fuzzy-tuned proportional integral control is designed to intelligently consider the input changes and revise the decision rules using fuzzy reasoning. The content of the harmonic current with respect to the varying load is momentarily commutated. Thus, using Clarke’s transformation, the errors are summed with instantaneous power that is converted to a compensation current with the hysteresis band monitored pulse generator. The output current would turn off and on the IGBT inverter’s switches, supplying the current to reject the harmonics. The overall work was tested using MATLAB/SIMULINK® and was effective in canceling harmonics.