Title :
Outline of the design of a cascaded H-bridge medium voltage STATCOM
Author :
Betz, R.E. ; Cook, B.J. ; Summers, T.J. ; Fisher, R. ; Bastiani, A. ; Shao, S. ; Stepien, P. ; Willis, K.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW
Abstract :
The University of Newcastle and its joint venture company, ResTech Pty Ltd, are developing a cascaded H-bridge based multilevel STATCOM. This tutorial paper outlines the salient design issues for this system. The issues covered in the paper include the choice of the converter topology, the structure of the control system hardware, the software structure and methodology, some details on the control algorithm, and the rationale behind the design decisions.
Keywords :
bridge circuits; static VAr compensators; cascaded H-bridge medium voltage STATCOM; converter topology; salient design; Active filters; Automatic voltage control; Insulated gate bipolar transistors; Medium voltage; Power harmonic filters; Static VAr compensators; Switching frequency; Thyristors; Topology; Transformers; Multilevel converters; Power Quality; SVC Static Var Compensator; Static Synchronous Compensator (STATCOM);
Conference_Titel :
Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference, 2008. EPE-PEMC 2008. 13th
Conference_Location :
Poznan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1741-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1742-1
DOI :
10.1109/EPEPEMC.2008.4635447
