A novel strategy for shunt active filter control

•A novel approach for shunt active filter control is given.•An analytical analysis reinforced by simulation results is given to compare the PQ theory and the proposed method.•The proposed method performances are confirmed by experiment tests.

The present paper proposes the use of an advanced algorithm based on the instantaneous powers theory for harmonics current compensation. A fast and exact computation of harmonic references is more than crucial for any active filter control strategy, especially during the transient time and frequency domains. The proposed method contains mainly two stages, the first one is based on a self-tuning filter (STF) to perform instantaneous synchronized sine and cosine fundamental waveforms. These two signals are used to calculate the instantaneous active and reactive powers using the well-known PQ theory. The second one is based on a new proposed method to accelerate the power ripple cancelation in the PQ active and reactive powers. An analytic study is conducted to show the effectiveness of these methods which is consolidated by simulation and experimental results.