A new three‐input/output characteristic‐varying filter in the D‐module for direct processing of three‐phase signals

This paper proposes a new three‐input and three‐output characteristic‐varying filter in the D‐module for direct processing of three‐phase signals, which are becoming indispensable for effective active compensation of three‐phase power such as harmonics current, negative phase current, reactive power, and varying voltage compensations. The filter in the D‐module can show different filtering characteristics to positive, negative, and zero phase components of three‐phase signals and can allow direct processing of the signals based on frequency polarities. The filter in the D‐module can also change dynamically its filtering characteristics by simply injecting a shift‐signal to itself. These filtering effects are obtained in a very simple manner using the D‐module. A new unified analysis of attractive general characteristics of the proposed filter in the D‐module is given for its easy designs and realizations as well. Effectiveness of the analysis and usefulness of the filter in the D‐module are newly examined and confirmed through experiments. The newly proposed filter in the D‐module has potential regarding a variety of three‐phase signal filtering applications.