reactive current

Reactive current is injected into the line to maintain voltage magnitude.

This improves the plant power factor and reduces the reactive current required from the grid.

DTC has turned out to have better stability than current vector control especially when high reactive currents are required from the generator.

When the supply voltage is removed, the voltage spike forward-biases the diode and the reactive current continues to flow through the winding, through the diode and back into the winding.

For zero voltage ride through it is common to wait until the dip ends because with zero voltage it is not possible to know the phase angle where the reactive current should be injected.

Using active rectification to implement AC/DC conversion allows a design to undergo further improvements (with more complexity) to achieve an active power factor correction, which forces the current waveform of the AC source to follow the voltage waveform, eliminating reactive currents and allowing the total system to achieve greater efficiency.