Title :
Performance measurement of Static Var Compensators in distribution system
Author :
Ke, Yi-Kuan ; Huang, Pei-Hwa ; Tseng, Ta-Hsiu
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Ocean Univ., Keelung, Taiwan
Abstract :
The main purpose of this paper is to study performance measurement of the Static Var Compensator (SVC). The SVC has been widely employed in industrial electric systems, especially in plants with electric arc furnaces for steelmaking. Electric arc furnaces result in power quality problems, such as voltage sag, flickers, phase unbalance, low power factor, and harmonics. The way of compensation is either to supply or to absorb reactive power and SVCs are adopted for performing compensation. Results from the performance measurement of a SVC installation for the compensation of an electric arc furnace are demonstrated. It is found the SVC is capable of mitigating power quality problems, improving power factor, and upgrading power transfer of the studied system.
Keywords :
arc furnaces; industrial power systems; performance index; power distribution; power supply quality; reactive power; static VAr compensators; steel industry; steel manufacture; distribution system; electric arc furnace; industrial electric systems; performance measurement; power quality problem; reactive power; static var compensator; steelmaking; Furnaces; Harmonic analysis; Power harmonic filters; Reactive power; Static VAr compensators; Thyristors; Voltage fluctuations; electric arc furnace; power quality; static var compensator (SVC);
Conference_Titel :
SICE Annual Conference 2010, Proceedings of
Conference_Location :
Taipei
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7642-8
