Modulated Carrier Control for Single-Phase Active Power Filter

In this paper, an improved modulated carrier control for a single-phase shunt active power filter(SAPF), which eliminates harmonic currents at the ac main drawn by nonlinear loads, is introduced. In contrast to conventional methods, since this control method does not need to generate a current reference for SAPF, only the ac main current is sensed instead of the load current and SAPF current. With the proposed control method, the ac main current is directly controlled to be sinusoidal and in phase with the supplied ac voltage by simply comparing the modulated carrier signal with the ac main current. The operation of the proposed SAPF is analyzed and simulation results verify its performance.