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The power quality has become a major concern since late 1980's. There has been increasing interest in studying power quality problems, one of which is the existence of the current/voltage harmonics. In order to eliminate these harmonics, different methods have so far been proposed and developed. In this paper, line current harmonics reduction is achieved by using an active filter. More specifically, our aim is to introduce a proper control design method for the current control part of the active filter. To achieve the goal, two different predictive controllers are examined. Due to the existing physical constraints (switching frequency and computational limits) in real applications, a new predictive control approach is proposed. The performance of this controller is compared to those obtained by two existing predictive controllers as well as commonly used PI controller through computer simulations considering various circumstances.

In this paper, a DC-link voltage tuning algorithm is introduced to control the shunt active filter (SAF) with sinusoidal and trapezoidal power supplies. The purpose of the proposed optimization algorithm is for tuning the PI controller and reducing the harmonics level. Artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm is introduced for tuning the gain of the controller and the voltage variation of power converter by using PWM pulses. It regulates the DC-link voltage as per the signal harmonics and the active power loss of the system is reduced. Therefore, the accurate compensation current is injected by the SAF devices. The proposed ABC-PI controller-based harmonic compensation method is implemented in MATLAB/Simulink platform. Then, the Total Harmonic Distortion (THD) and the power factor are evaluated. The results of the proposed method are compared with PI controller and PSO-PI controller. The proposed method has fast DC-link voltage response, low THD and good power factor.

This paper proposes a Solar Photovoltaic (SPV) interfaced Impedance Source Inverter (ZSI) based shunt Active Power Filter (APF) for compensation of power quality events such as current harmonics, voltage interruption and reactive power burden. The instantaneous reactive power theories with Fuzzy Logic Controller (FLC) based DC link voltage regulator is used to estimate the reference current signal and control the operation of the SPV interfaced shunt APF. Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) algorithm is also employed to obtain the optimum maximum power point. The response of the SPV interfaced ZSI-shunt APF for mitigation of current harmonic distortions and reactive power compensation are investigated and compared with SPV interfaced Voltage Source Inverter (VSI) based shunt APF. The proposed SPV interfaced shunt APF employed with the FLC-based instantaneous reactive power theory control algorithm offers long lasting compensation against current-based distortions and reactive power requirements. The performance of the SPV interfaced ZSI based shunt APF has been verified by the simulation and experimental study. These results confirm the practicability of the proposed system in various load conditions with effective harmonic mitigation capability.