A Single-phase Active Device for Power Quality Improvement of Electrified Transportation

A transformer less hybrid series active filter is proposed to enhance the power quality in singlephase systems with critical loads. This thesis assists the energy management and power quality issues related to electric transportation and focuses on improving electric vehicle load connection to the grid. The control strategy is designed to prevent current harmonic distortions of nonlinear loads to flow into the utility and corrects the power factor of this later. While protecting sensitive loads from voltage disturbances, sags, and swells initiated by the power system, ridded of the series transformer, the configuration is advantageous for an industrial implementation. This polyvalent hybrid topology allowing the harmonic isolation and compensation of voltage distortions could absorb or inject the auxiliary power to the grid. Aside from practical analysis, this thesis also investigates on the influence of gains and delays in the real-time controller stability.