International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS)
Vol 9, No 4: December 2018

A New Aluminum Pot Line Rectiformer Scheme with Effective Harmonic Suppression Capability

Mahmood Al-Mahari (Aluminum Bahrain (ALBA))
S. Ali Al-Mawsawi (University of Bahrain)
Fadhel Albasri (University of Bahrain)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Dec 2018

Abstract

The conversion from alternating current to direct current creates harmonics and causes power quality issues especially when large amount of power being converted. To mitigate these issues, conventional schemes for pot line Rectiformers are integrated with passive harmonic filters (PHF), which are either connected directly to the feeding grid or connected to each tertiary winding of the Rectiformer regulating transformer. This paper presents a new pot line Rectiformer scheme that reduces the distortion at the Rectiformer terminal and has better harmonic attenuation capability at the point of common coupling (PCC) by using parallel delta connected (PDC) tertiary winding between two adjacent Rectiformers. The proposed pot line scheme is modeled and simulated using MATLAB/Simulink. A comparison is made with Aluminum Bahrain (ALBA) new 900MW pot line 6 (PL6) scheme in terms of harmonic elimination, capability, operational constrains and cost/space requirements.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJPEDS

Publisher

Subject

Control & Systems Engineering Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Description

International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS, ISSN: 2088-8694, a SCOPUS indexed Journal) is the official publication of the Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science (IAES). The scope of the journal includes all issues in the field of Power Electronics and drive systems. ...