A novel multilevel converter used for three phase STATCOM under unbalanced load

Author

Balikci, Abdul ; Akpinar, Eyup

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Dokuz Eylul Univ., Izmir, Turkey

fYear

2011

fDate

8-10 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

158

Lastpage

163

Abstract

In this paper, multi-level cascaded Static Synchronous Compensator (STATCOM) is proposed using a novel converter having reduced number of switches. STATCOM is analyzed by using DSP and Matlab, interactively. The level shifted carrier based SPWM method, instantaneous single phase active (P) and reactive (Q) power algorithms are applied to control this converters. The performance of STATCOM is investigated for unbalanced reactive load conditions. The simulation results of Matlab alone and Matlab interactively operated with DSP TMS320F28335 are presented.

Keywords

PWM power convertors; digital signal processing chips; microcontrollers; reactive power control; static VAr compensators; DSP TMS320F28335; Matlab; instantaneous single phase reactive power algorithms; level shifted carrier based SPWM method; multilevel cascaded STATCOM; multilevel cascaded static synchronous compensator; multilevel converter; three phase STATCOM; unbalanced reactive load conditions;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical Machines and Power Electronics and 2011 Electromotion Joint Conference (ACEMP), 2011 International Aegean Conference on

Conference_Location

Istanbul

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5004-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4673-5002-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACEMP.2011.6490587

Filename

6490587