Experience with an inverter-based dynamic voltage restorer

Author

Woodley, N.H. ; Morgan, L. ; Sundaram, A.

Author_Institution

Westinghouse Electr. Corp., Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Volume

14

Issue

3

fYear

1999

fDate

7/1/1999 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1181

Lastpage

1186

Abstract

The installation of the world´s first dynamic voltage restorer (DVR) on a major US utility system to protect a critical customer plant load from power system voltage disturbances ushers in a new era of power quality problem solution on the utility side of the revenue billing meter. The prototype DVR built by Westinghouse for EPRI was installed in August, 1996 on the Duke Power Company (North Carolina) 12.47 kV system at an automated yarn manufacturing and weaving factory where it provides protection from disturbances coming from the utility distribution system that serves the plant. This paper describes the prototype DVR installation and presents early results from the demonstration project

Keywords

DC-AC power convertors; industrial power systems; invertors; load (electric); power supply quality; power system faults; power system protection; power system restoration; textile industry; 12.47 kV; USA; commercial power systems; critical customer plant load; demonstration project; distribution system disturbance protection; electric utilities; power system voltage disturbances; yarn manufacturing factory; yarn weaving factory; Manufacturing automation; Power quality; Power system dynamics; Power system protection; Power system restoration; Production facilities; Prototypes; Voltage; Weaving; Yarn;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Power Delivery, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8977

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/61.772390

Filename

772390