Power Quality Enhancement of Three-Phase Front-End Rectifier of UPS System Using Current Injection Technique

Power Quality Enhancement of Three-Phase
Front-End Rectifier of UPS System Using
Current Injection Technique
Gunwant A. Dhomane and Hiralal M. Suryawanshi
Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India

Summary: Power Quality, in terms of power factor and harmonics, is greatly hampered by a threephase
rectifier used as a front-end ac-to-dc converter in many systems including a UPS. This paper
presents the high power factor operation of the converter with reduced total harmonic distortion up
to 4%. The power quality up gradation is due to high-frequency current injection, at the input of the
front-end rectifier. A small filter is required at the output for filtering the high-frequency content.
Sinusoidal PWM technique is used for controlling the output voltage. DSP is used for generating
the desired gate pulses. The converter has high efficiency, low EMI emissions, high power packing
density and suitable for UPS system. A Simulation and experimentation is carried out on a 3 kW
converter and experimental results are in good agreement with simulation results.
FULL PAPER HERE:http://www.epqu.agh.edu.pl/archives/journal/v14i2/v14i2_04.pdf