New functionalities of the unified power quality conditioner

Author

Elnady, A. ; Salama, M.M.A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Waterloo Univ., Ont., Canada

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

415

Abstract

Power quality problems have received much attention because of their bad economical impacts on both utilities and customers. Current harmonics are the most common power quality problem, while the voltage sag is the most severe. This paper introduces new functionalities for the unified power quality conditioner (UPQC), which never introduced before by one mitigating device (UPQC). This device can suppress current harmonics and compensate the current unbalance, which might be produced in the distribution system. It also mitigates different voltage sags, which might result from different faults in the system. The performance of the proposed UPQC is verified by digital simulation results PSCAD/EMTDC

Keywords

EMTP; harmonics suppression; power distribution faults; power supply quality; power system harmonics; PSCAD/EMTDC; bad economical impacts; current harmonics suppression; current unbalance compensation; digital simulation; distribution system; faults; unified power quality conditioner; voltage sag mitigation; Active filters; EMTDC; Electrical equipment industry; PSCAD; Power engineering and energy; Power engineering computing; Power harmonic filters; Power quality; Transformers; Voltage fluctuations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition, 2001 IEEE/PES

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7285-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TDC.2001.971270

Filename

971270