Application of STATCOM controllers for power quality improvement - modeling and simulation

Author

Mienski, Romyslaw ; Pawelek, Ryszard ; Wasiak, Irena

Author_Institution

Inst. of Electr. Power Eng., Tech. Univ. Lodz, Poland

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

6-9 Oct. 2002

Firstpage

620

Abstract

The paper deals with compensation of frequently time-varying loads by means of STATCOM controllers. As a varying load an arc furnace is considered. The 12-pulse STATCOM system was used for compensation to ensure good power quality in the point of common coupling. For analysis of the system performance the PSCAD/EMTPDC programme was applied. Models of the load and STATCOM controller useful for simulation are discussed. A PSCAD model of measurement blocks is also proposed for power quality assessment. Some results of simulation are presented in the paper, which show the effectiveness of compensation.

Keywords

EMTP; arc furnaces; power supply quality; power system simulation; static VAr compensators; PSCAD/EMTPDC programme; STATCOM controllers; arc furnace; common coupling point; modeling; power quality; simulation software; time-varying load compensation; Automatic voltage control; Capacitors; Inductors; PSCAD; Power generation economics; Power quality; Reactive power; Static VAr compensators; Thyristors; Voltage fluctuations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Harmonics and Quality of Power, 2002. 10th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7671-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICHQP.2002.1221507

Filename

1221507