Analysis of the Harmonic Performance of Power Converters and Electrical Drives

• Other Authors: Monopoli, Vito Giuseppe (Editor), Marquez, Abraham (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Technology: general issues; Energy industries & utilities; multiphase drives; pulse width modulation; current harmonics; effective voltage regulation; generalized delayed signal cancellation; harmonic distortion; power quality; repetitive controller; harmonic analysis; power converters; pulse-width modulation (PWM); frequency-domain model; voltage-source inverter (VSI); closed-loop control; full electric aircraft (FEA); cascaded H-bridge (CHB); multi-level inverter; permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM); total harmonic distortion (THD); pulse-width modulation; metaheuristic search algorithms
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Power converters have progressively become the most efficient and attractive solution in recent decades in many industrial sectors, ranging from electric mobility, aerospace applications to attain better electric aircraft concepts, vast renewable energy resource integration in the transmission and distribution grid, the design of smart and efficient energy management systems, the usage of energy storage systems, and the achievement of smart grid paradigm development, among others.In order to achieve efficient solutions in this wide energy scenario, over the past few decades, considerable attention has been paid by the academia and industry in order to develop new methods to achieve power systems with maximum harmonic performance aiming for two main targets. On the one hand, the high-performance harmonic performance of power systems would lead to improvements in their power density, size and weight. This becomes critical in applications such as aerospace or electric mobility, where the power converters are on-board systems. On the other hand, current standards are becoming more and more strict in order to reduce the EMI and EMC noise, as well as meeting minimum power quality requirements (i.e., grid code standards for grid-tied power systems).