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Advanced Load-Shift System: An Experimental Validation of the ac-dc Converter as Shunt Active Power Filter

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This paper presents a load-shift system with advanced functionalities to interface the power grid (PG). When compared with the conventional approach, an advanced load-shift system (aLSS) permits the compensation of power quality (PQ) problems for the grid-side, namely problems related to current harmonics, current imbalance, and power factor. The proposed aLSS is composed by a bidirectional ac-dc converter to interface the PG and by a bidirectional dc-dc converter to interface an energy storage system (ESS). Since the main innovation is related with the PG interface, the focus of this work is on the analysis of the ac-dc converter, which is based on a three-phase four-leg converter. A theoretical study and the details concerning the control algorithm are presented and discussed along the paper. A laboratory prototype of the proposed aLSS was developed and the details of implementation are described in the paper. Experimental results obtained with the developed prototype prove that the aLSS contributes for the technology progress in this area, validating a new concept of operation concerning the PQ on the PG side.

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This work has been supported by FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia with-in the Project Scope: UID/CEC/00319/2019. This work has been supported by the FCT Project QUALITY4POWER PTDC/EEI-EEE/28813/2017, and by the FCT Project newERA4GRIDs PTDC/EEI-EEE/30283/2017.

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Rodrigues, A.M.C., Monteiro, V., Sousa, T.J.C., Alves, T., Pinto, J.G., Afonso, J.L. (2020). Advanced Load-Shift System: An Experimental Validation of the ac-dc Converter as Shunt Active Power Filter. In: Afonso, J., Monteiro, V., Pinto, J. (eds) Sustainable Energy for Smart Cities. SESC 2019. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 315. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45694-8_20

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