Design of Shunt Active Power Filter(APF)

A power filter is a type of electronic filter which is placed between an external power line and electronic devices. It is used in order to attenuate conducted radio frequencies or electromagnetic interference between the AC or DC power line and the equipment. In this project, you are going to design and simulate an APF based on inter-leaved buck converter in the MATLAB/Simulink environment.

In this project, an Active Power Filter (APF) is to be designed which will mitigate the effects of harmonics due to the use of non-linear loads. This is to be realized with help of interleaved buck converter which not only reduces the harmonics at the Point of common coupling (PCC) but also removes the probability of the occurrence of inherent shoot-through phenomena in the power electronics circuits.