Analysis of the Harmonic Performance of Power Converters and Electrical Drives

<p>Power converters have progressively become the most efficient and attractive solution in</p><p>recent decades in many industrial sectors ranging from electric mobility aerospace</p><p>applications to attain better electric aircra concepts vast renewable energy resource</p><p>integration in the transmission and distribution grid the design of smart and efficient</p><p>energy management systems the usage of energy storage systems and the achievement</p><p>of smart grid paradigm development among others.</p><p>In order to achieve efficient solutions in this wide energy scenario over the past few</p><p>decades considerable attention has been paid by the academia and industry in order to</p><p>develop new methods to achieve power systems with maximum harmonic</p><p>performance aiming for two main targets. On the one hand the high-performance</p><p>harmonic performance of power systems would lead to improvements in their power</p><p>density size and weight. This becomes critical in applications such as aerospace or</p><p>electric mobility where the power converters are on-board systems. On the other hand</p><p>current standards are becoming more and more strict in order to reduce the EMI and EMC</p><p>noise as well as meeting minimum power quality requirements (i.e. grid code standards</p><p>for grid-tied power systems).</p>