Efficiency comparison between a Hybrid cascaded connected seven level converter and a Standard cascaded connected seven level converter for STATCOM applications at 15 kV utility grids

Author

Baraia, I. ; Thomas, J.-L. ; Barrena, J.A. ; Galarza, J. ; Rodriguez, M.A.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Eng., Univ. of Mondragon, Mondragon, Spain

fYear

2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

10

Abstract

This paper presents the dimensioning and comparison in terms of efficiency, cost and waveform quality of a Hybrid 7 Level converter and a Standard cascaded connected 7 Level converter for 26MVA and 15 kV STATCOM applications. In addition, these converters are compared with commercially available 2 Level and 3 Level NPC VSCs.

Keywords

power convertors; static VAr compensators; STATCOM applications; apparent power 26 MVA; hybrid cascaded connected seven level converter; standard cascaded connected seven level converter; voltage 15 kV; Automatic voltage control; Capacitors; Converters; Inductors; Power conversion; Power system transients; Reactive power; Static VAr compensators; Voltage control; Wind energy generation; Custom Power; FACTS; Medium Voltage; Multilevel Converters; Static Synchronous Compensator (STATCOM); Voltage Source Converter (VSC);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics and Applications, 2009. EPE '09. 13th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Barcelona

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4432-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-90-75815-13-9

Type

conf

Filename

5279344