Testing of a controller for an ETO-based STATCOM through controller hardware-in-the-loop simulation

Author

Langston, J. ; Qi, L. ; Steurer, M. ; Sloderbeck, M. ; Liu, Y. ; Xi, Z. ; Mundkur, S. ; Liang, Z. ; Huang, A.Q. ; Bhattacharya, S. ; Litzenberger, W. ; Anderson, L. ; Sosrensen, P. ; Sundaram, A.

Author_Institution

Center for Adv. Power Syst., Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL, USA

fYear

2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

The testing of a controller for a proposed 10 MVA STATCOM through hardware-in-the-loop experimentation is described in this paper. The electrical environment into which the STATCOM is to be inserted, including a significant portion of the utility network and a nearby wind farm are simulated using a large-scale digital real time electromagnetic transients simulator. The STATCOM controller is interfaced to the simulation, providing firing pulses to the simulated STATCOM and receiving feedback of system voltages and currents. Notional wind speed data is used to simulate realistic behavior of the wind farm. This paper presents preliminary results of the ongoing testing of the controller under the most realistic system conditions.

Keywords

controllers; power system control; static VAr compensators; ETO-based STATCOM; STATCOM controller; apparent power 10 MVA; controller hardware-in-the-loop simulation; controller testing; dual time step simulation; electrical environment; firing pulses; large-scale digital real time electromagnetic transients simulator; notional wind speed data; utility network; wind farm; Automatic voltage control; Electronic mail; Power system dynamics; Power system modeling; Power system simulation; Real time systems; System testing; USA Councils; Voltage control; Wind farms; RTDS; STATCOM; dual time step simulation; hardware-in-the-loop;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power & Energy Society General Meeting, 2009. PES '09. IEEE

Conference_Location

Calgary, AB

ISSN

1944-9925

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4241-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PES.2009.5275210

Filename

5275210