A Modular Active Front-End Rectifier with Electronic Phase-Shifting for Harmonic Mitigation in Motor Drive Applications

In this paper, an electronic phase-shifting strategy has been optimized for a multi-parallel configuration of line-commutated rectifiers with a common dc-bus voltage used in motor drive application. This feature makes the performance of the system independent of the load profile and maximizes its harmonic reduction ability. In order to further reduce the generated low order harmonics, a dc-link current modulation scheme and its phase shift values of multi-drive systems have been optimized. Analysis, simulations and experiments have been carried out to verify the proposed method.