Improved Selective Harmonics Elimination Scheme With Online Harmonic Compensation for High-Power PWM Converters

To reduce the low-order harmonics produced by the high-power pulsewidth-modulated (PWM) converters, selective harmonic elimination (SHE) scheme is commonly used due to its superior harmonic performance at low switching frequency. However, as an off-line modulation technique, the SHE scheme itself lacks the capability to realize the active compensation of the grid background harmonics. To enable the active compensation ability of the SHE-modulated PWM converters, this paper proposes an active compensation method through the jittering of SHE phase angle. The proposed method can realize the real-time compensation of the preexisting system background harmonics in high-power PWM converters’ system. An application example on a high-power PWM current-source rectifier (CSR) system is provided in this paper. Experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively attenuate the line current harmonics caused by the grid background harmonics in the high-power PWM CSR systems.