Bbc Brown, Boveri & Company, Limited

Antoine Rey

Herbert Stemmler

A method for attenuating at least one unwanted harmonic, particularly the second harmonic, with respect to the system frequency in a multi-phase alternating current system, wherein an additional stabilizing circuit is installed into a conventional current/voltage controller including a current/voltage controller and a three-phase firing pulse generator in a reactive-power compensator connected via a reactive-power transformer and a current transformer to a 50 Hz three-phase system. The reactive power compensator has for each phase of the three-phase current at least one air choke, which is connected via a current transformer and via an alternating-current switch via another sum-current transformer to a secondary winding of the reactive-power transformer. In addition, the reactive-power compensator has for each phase of the three-phase current at least one capacitor bank or a capacitor, which is connected via a current transformer and an alternating-current switch (13) to the sum-current transformer (20). The stabilizing circuit measures a harmonic-containing magnetising current as the difference between compensator current (i.sub.K) and sum current (i.sub.Su) on the primary and secondary side of the reactive-power transformer, and by means of a voltage transformer a system-frequency voltage signal, which is proportional to the system frequency. These two three-phase current and voltage signals are converted into a single direct-voltage signal in a reactive-power meter. An input harmonic of 100 Hz occurs on the output side as a 50 Hz signal which is filtered out in a bandpass filter and, after a +90.degree. phase shift, is added in an adding section to the conventional output signal of the current/voltage controller via a double-sided limiter.

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Antoine Rey