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March 25, 2026
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An Active Power Filter with Selective Harmonic Compensation and Reduced Switching Losses

Publicated to: IECON 2025: 51th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, 14-17 October, Madrid, España : Proceedings. - 2025-01-01 (), DOI: 10.1109/IECON58223.2025.11221964

Authors:

Liberos, Marian; Gonzalez-Medina, Raul; Patrao, Ivan; Toran, Enric; Garcera, Gabriel; Figueres, Emilio
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Univ Politecn Valencia, Grp Sistemas Elect Ind, Dept Ingn Elect, Valencia, Spain - Author

Abstract

Active Power Filters (APF) for reducing current harmonic distortion have been widely used in both grids and microgrids. This work proposes a topology for an APF consisting of two Voltage Source Inverters (VSIs) connected in parallel to the same DC-link, which saves space and reduces cost compared to independent APFs. One inverter operates at a low switching frequency and compensates for low-order harmonics. The second inverter operates at a high switching frequency to target high-frequency harmonics. As the high-frequency inverter handles only around 25% of the total RMS current managed by the overall APF, switching losses are significantly reduced. However, connecting inverters in parallel produces circulating currents that can have an adverse effect on the system. In this work, circulating currents are cancelled by controlling the zero-sequence component of the currents in the two inverters.
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Keywords

'currentActive filtersActive power filterCirculating currentCirculating currentsControl designElectric invertersEnergy conservationHarmonic analysisInverter systemParallel inverterParallel inverter systemReduced switchingSelective harmonic compensationSwitching frequencySwitching loss

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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (LIBEROS MASCARELL, MARÍA ANTONIA) and Last Author (Figueres, Emilio).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been LIBEROS MASCARELL, MARÍA ANTONIA.

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Awards linked to the item

This research was funded by the Spanish "Ministerio de Asuntos Economicos y Transformacion Digital" and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) under Grant PID2021-122835OB-C22.
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