A single-phase capacitor clamped converter operated simultaneously as a PWM rectifier and an active power filter

A control scheme is proposed that employs an active rectifier to work simultaneously as an active power filter to decrease current harmonics. The adopted capacitor clamped rectifier is controlled to draw a sine wave line current with low current harmonics. A voltage controller, three capacitor voltage compensators and one current controller are used in the proposed control algorithm to achieve a constant DC bus voltage, balanced capacitor voltages and line current tracking. The validity of the proposed system is proved by the results of computer simulations and experimental tests.