Harmonic Reduction In Three-Phase Parallel Connected Inverter

This paper presents the design and analysis of a parallel connected inverter configuration of. The configuration consists of parallel connected three-phase dc/ac inverter. Series resistors added to the inverter output to maintain same current in each inverter of the two parallel inverters, and to reduce the circulating current in the parallel inverters to the minimum. High frequency third harmonic injection PWM (THIPWM) employed to reduce the total harmonic distortion and to make maximum use of the voltage source. DSP was used to generate the THIPWM and the control algorithm for the converter. Selected experimental results have been shown to validate the proposed system.

Authors:

• M.A.A. Younis
• N. A. Rahim
• S. Mekhilef

Keywords:

• Three-phase inverter
• Third harmonic injection PWM
• inverters parallel connection.

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