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Abstract During the operation of the ITER machine, hundreds of MW/Var of active and reactive power will be exchanged with the grid. The E‐STATCOM scheme composed of the Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC) and split supercapacitor energy storage has been proposed to improve the power compensation performance of the existing reactive power compensation system in the previous study. However, one of the main technical challenges which is lack of research is to precharge all submodule capacitors and supercapacitors from zero to their nominal voltage values efficiently during a startup process. As the capacitance and operating voltage of supercapacitors are much different from capacitors in each submodule, the startup of E‐STATCOM is a more complicated process. To coordinate the energy exchange between submodule capacitors and supercapacitors, submodule capacitors and the grid, this paper presents an optimized four‐stage AC side startup strategy for the E‐STATCOM. The proposed method minimizes the use of current‐limiting resistors while suppressing the surge current in the zero‐voltage startup process of supercapacitors, in addition to optimizing the energy consumption. The pulse current charging, constant current charging and constant power charging strategies of supercapacitors are adopted in different charging stages, and the detailed coordinated control scheme between submodule capacitors and supercapacitors are described and analyzed. The effectiveness and performance of the proposed method are verified by simulation results and hardware‐in‐the‐loop (HIL) experiments.

The hybrid active power filter (HAPF) can effectively suppress the 75–125 Hz low-frequency harmonic current generated by the EAST poloidal field power supply. However, the low-frequency harmonic current suppression performance of HAPF is greatly affected by its control parameters when the circuit parameters are determined. In this paper, the state–space equation of the HAPF system is established, and the relationship between the eigenvalues of the state–space matrix and the HAPF control parameters is analyzed using the Lyapunov method. Based on the variation law of the eigenvalues, by optimizing the control parameters of the HAPF system, the low-frequency harmonic current suppression performance of HAPF is improved by 41.9%.

During the operation of Tokamak power system, a large number of low frequency harmonic currents with complex spectrum will be generated. Low-frequency resonance suppressor is an effective solution to suppress this low-frequency harmonic currents. The low-frequency harmonic suppression theory of low-frequency resonance suppressor is analyzed in this paper. Meanwhile, the state space equation of three-phase four-wire neutral-point-clamped rectifier is established in the LFRS. According to the mathematical model, the double closed-loop and zero sequence current control strategies are proposed to improve power factor operation on AC side and neutral point potential balance control on DC side of three-phase four-wire converter. The results show the correctness of the theoretical analysis and provide a technical reference for suppression of low-frequency harmonics of other Tokamak devices.

The excellent performance of synchronous phase locked technology is the basis of improving the power quality of Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) power system. The conventional synchronous reference frame phase-locked loop (SRF-PLL) with low pass filter (LPF) has a poor filter capacity for the 2nd harmonic component as the fundamental frequency fluctuation due to the high-power, high-parameter operation of the EAST. To improve accuracy of the phase estimation, adaptive notch filter (ANF) will be introduced into the LSRF-PLL to reject the disturbance of 2nd harmonic component, which can adaptively track the fluctuation of fundamental frequency with least mean square (LMS) algorithm. A novel composite algorithm of LPF and ANF SRF-PLL (LASRF-PLL) is presented to suppress the disturbance of the frequency fluctuation and harmonic pollution. At the last, the performance of the proposed LASRF-PLL is finally validated by simulation results of MATLAB software.