Analysis of the Harmonic Performance of Power Converters and Electrical Drives

Power converters have progressively become the most efficient and attractive solution inrecent decades in many industrial sectors ranging from electric mobility aerospaceapplications to attain better electric aircra���� concepts vast renewable energy resourceintegration in the transmission and distribution grid the design of smart and efficientenergy management systems the usage of energy storage systems and the achievementof smart grid paradigm development among others.In order to achieve efficient solutions in this wide energy scenario over the past fewdecades considerable attention has been paid by the academia and industry in order todevelop new methods to achieve power systems with maximum harmonicperformance aiming for two main targets. On the one hand the high-performanceharmonic performance of power systems would lead to improvements in their powerdensity size and weight. This becomes critical in applications such as aerospace orelectric mobility where the power converters are on-board systems. On the other hand current standards are becoming more and more strict in order to reduce the EMI and EMCnoise as well as meeting minimum power quality requirements (i.e. grid code standardsfor grid-tied power systems).