Author(s)

R. Zahira¹, A. Peer Fathima², Ranganath Muthu³

¹Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Tagore Engineering College, Chennai, India.
²School of Electrical Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai, India.
³Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, SSN College of Engineering, Kalavakkam, Chennai, India.

Due to environmental conditions, the wind power generation is fluctuating in nature. This affects the electrical network interconnected with these systems. When the wind power generators are connected to the nonlinear loads, there is distortion in the waveform. These distortions should be within limits according to national and international guidelines framed for power quality. This paper presents a mitigation technique with a shunt active filter, which reduces harmonic distortion to the permitted limit. Sine pulse width modulation (SPWM) control scheme is used to control shunt active filter. This technique eliminates harmonic distortion and maintains unity power factor. The simulation for proposed method is carried out using MATLAB/SIMULINK and results are validated.

Wind Power Generation, SPWM, Shunt Active Filter, Harmonic, Power Quality

Zahira, R. , Fathima, A. and Muthu, R. (2016) Harmonic Reduction in Wind Power Generating System Using Shunt Active Filter with SPWM Technique. Circuits and Systems, 7, 157-165. doi: 10.4236/cs.2016.74015.