Control circuit for series active power filters based on programmable logic devices

This paper describes a control circuit for the active power filters working with three-phase AC power line. It describes logic circuitries as well as laboratory test results. The control circuit was realized with programmable logic devices, fast analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters. Proposed system working with open-loop control, it allows significantly simplifying its logic structure. Programmable logic devices do simultaneously a few independent tasks, so a control algorithm can be performing fast, improving considerably compensation dynamic. This paper includes results of laboratory tests of the active power filter consisted of proposed control circuit and a voltage-source converter.