Three-phase full-wave rectifier study with experimental measurements

The present paper is an experimental study of the harmonic absorbed currents by three-phase rectifiers. Laboratory tests have been performed with a rectifier to characterize its absorbed harmonic currents (magnitude and phase angle). From these results, a database that characterizes rectifier harmonic behavior experimentally and allows the rectifier currents to be easily calculated is proposed. The database applicability is experimentally studied in two laboratory tests. The results are validated with PSpice simulations.