Assessment of light flicker mitigation using shunt compensators

Author

Poudel, Suman ; Watson, Neviile R.

Author_Institution

Electr. & Comput. Eng., Canterbury Univ., Christchurch, New Zealand

Volume

1

fYear

2004

fDate

21-24 Nov. 2004

Firstpage

23

Abstract

The main objective of this paper is to compare the relative effectiveness of shunt compensators in mitigating light flicker caused by arc furnace. A test system comprising an arc furnace model built in PSCAD/EMTDC is simulated with and without the static Var compensator (SVC) and static synchronous compensator (STATCOM). Compensation characteristics of the devices are measured in terms of flicker severity indices (P_st) using IEC compliant flicker meter model developed in PSCAD/EMTDC. The simulation results demonstrate that the STATCOM has superior flicker reduction capacity than the SVC due to its inherently faster response.

Keywords

arc furnaces; power engineering computing; power supply quality; static VAr compensators; IEC compliant flicker meter model; PSCAD/EMTDC; STATCOM; SVC; arc furnace; flicker severity indices; light flicker mitigation; shunt compensators; static Var compensator; static synchronous compensator; superior flicker reduction capacity; Automatic voltage control; Furnaces; Humans; IEC; PSCAD; Power system modeling; Power system simulation; Static VAr compensators; System testing; Voltage fluctuations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power System Technology, 2004. PowerCon 2004. 2004 International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8610-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPST.2004.1459960

Filename

1459960