A solid state high performance reactive power compensator

Author

Morán, Luis ; Ziogas, Phoivos ; Joos, Geza

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Concordia Univ., Montreal, Que., Canada

fYear

1990

fDate

11-16 March 1990

Firstpage

489

Lastpage

497

Abstract

A high performance reactive power compensator is presented and analyzed. The volt-ampere reactive (VAr) compensator consists of a three-phase current-regulated pulse width modulated voltage-source inverter connected to a self-controlled DC bus. Reactive power compensation is achieved by forcing the inverter output current to follow a reactive sinusoidal reference waveform at a constant switching frequency. The scheme is discussed in terms of principles of operation, power and control system design, and the analysis under transient operating conditions. Simulated results obtained with the PSpice simulation software package for steady-state and transient operating conditions are presented.<>

Keywords

compensation; digital simulation; invertors; power engineering computing; pulse width modulation; reactive power; software packages; static VAr compensators; PSpice; VSI; digital simulation; high performance; operating conditions; power engineering computing; power factor correction; reactive power compensator; reactive sinusoidal reference waveform; self-controlled DC bus; software package; switching frequency; three-phase current-regulated pulse width modulated voltage-source inverter; Control systems; Performance analysis; Pulse inverters; Pulse width modulation inverters; Reactive power; Solid state circuits; Switching frequency; System analysis and design; Transient analysis; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, 1990. APEC '90, Conference Proceedings 1990., Fifth Annual

Conference_Location

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APEC.1990.66428

Filename

66428