International Journal of Engineering and Technology

Recent surveys of three-phase four-wire electric systems, buildings and industrial plants with computers and non-linear loads shows the excessive currents in the neutral conductor. This is mainly due to unbalancing system and non-linear loads. Third order harmonics are much dominant in the neutral conductor due to the presence of zero sequence components. In response to this concern, this paper presents a concept of series active filter scheme to suppress the neutral current harmonics to reduce the burden of the secondary of the distribution transformer. In this scheme, the series active filter is connected in series with the neutral conductor to eliminate the zero sequence components in the neutral conductor. In this paper, Fuzzy based controller is used to extract the harmonic component in the neutral conductor. The proposed method improves the overall performance of the system and eliminates the burden of the neutral conductor. To validate the proposed simulation results, a scale-down prototype experimental model is developed.