Effect of STATCOM placement on performance of voltage sag mitigation

Author

Ali, M.A. ; Fozdar, M. ; Niazi, K.R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Malaviya Nat. Inst. of Technol., Jaipur, India

fYear

2012

fDate

22-26 July 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

Voltage sag is considered as one of the most common power quality problems. It may cause sensitive equipment to malfunction and process interruption. This paper investigates the effect of placement of STATCOM to mitigate voltage sags in power system network. The simulation results show that it is effective to place one STATCOM in low voltage network and other in high voltage network instead of placing both the STATCOM in the same network. Also an ability of the STATCOM to mitigate the voltage sags due to symmetrical as well as unsymmetrical faults has been investigated. The developed algorithm has been applied to the IEEE 24 bus Reliability Test System (RTS).

Keywords

IEEE standards; power supply quality; power system faults; static VAr compensators; IEEE 24 bus RTS; IEEE 24 bus reliability test system; STATCOM placement effect; low voltage network; malfunction interruption; power system network; process interruption; unsymmetrical faults; voltage sag mitigation; Automatic voltage control; Circuit faults; Low voltage; Power quality; Reliability; Voltage fluctuations; Power quality; Static compensator (STATCOM); Voltage sag; Voltage sag mitigation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power and Energy Society General Meeting, 2012 IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1944-9925

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2727-5

Electronic_ISBN

1944-9925

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PESGM.2012.6345232

Filename

6345232