A novel electromagnetic compensator

Nowadays, power quality concerns are bringing important challenges to industrial and utility engineers. In general, due to the proliferation of nonlinear loads, electric signals are unbalanced, asymmetric and distorted. As an alternative to solve these problems, this paper presents a proposal for a novel electromagnetic compensator. This equipment can be helpful: (1) in the load flow control; (2) to feed static multiconverter systems, replacing with some advantages the commonly used delta/zig-zag transformers, to reduce or even to eliminate the characteristic harmonics; and (3) to correct voltage drops and unbalances simultaneously, as an alternative to the conventional solution obtained by line drop compensators.