A Three-Phase Four-Wire Power Filter Comprising a Three-Phase Three-Wire Active Power Filter and a Zig–Zag Transformer

Abstract

Active power filters (APFs) have been developed to solve the problems of harmonic suppression and reactive power compensation simultaneously, In this paper, a three-phase four-wire power filter comprising a three-phase three-wire APF and a Zig-Zag transformer is developed. A hardware prototype is implemented and tested to verify the performance of the proposed power filter under various ideal and non-ideal power conditions. Experimental results show that this three-phase four-wire power filter has the desired performance under limited zero sequence utility voltage.