Design and Implementation of a Solar Panel Inverter as STATCOM Compensator

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Mutaz Alnahhas ◽  
Abdul Wali Abdul Ali
Keyword(s):  
Power System ◽  
Power Factor ◽  
Reactive Power ◽  
Power Factor Correction ◽  
Pi Controller ◽  
Reactive Power Compensation ◽  
Solar Panel ◽  
Solar Array ◽  
Smart Meter ◽  
Static Synchronous Compensator

A power system suffers from different losses, which can cause tragic consequences. Reactive power presence in the power system increases system losses delivered power quality and distorts the voltage. As a result, many researches are concerned with reactive power compensation. Moreover, reactive power should not be transmitted through a transmission line to a longer distance. Thus, Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS) devices such as static synchronous compensator (STATCOM), static volt-ampere compensator (SVC), and unified power flow controller (UPFC) are utilized to overcome these issues. The necessity of balancing resistive power generation and absorption throughout a power system becomes a big concern in the electrical systems for reactive power compensation. Static synchronous compensator STATCOM is a shunt device used for the generation or absorption of reactive power as desired. STATCOM provides smooth and fast compensation and power factor correction. In this thesis, a solar Static synchronous compensator takes the DC input from the solar panel and inverted utilizing an H-bridge inverter. This topology is used for reactive power compensation and power factor correction at the load side. The simulation was done using MATLAB Simulink simulation tools. The system model was built using a single solar array for DC input and controlled using perturbation and observe method to maximize its power output. The STATCOM model was built using for high power MOSFETs to perform H- bridge inverter. The STATCOM was controlled using a hysteresis band current control using a PI controller to inject the current into the system. A hardware prototype of STATCOM was built and controlled using an Arduino microcontroller. The simulation results have demonstrated the STATCOM model of reactive power compensation and correcting the power factor under different loads of conditions. It also highlighted the proportional relation between reactive power presence and the increased cost of electricity bills. The proposed smart meter of STATCOM gives accurate reading and measurement. Overall, the simulated results showed a satisfactory level of compensation of reactive power and power factor correction. The system contained three significant parts; solar array, H- bridge inverter, and the PI controller. The smart meter circuit was capable of displaying readings regarding input solar voltage, current, and power factor on the LCD screen.

scholarly journals Simulating and Building an Appliance Clustering Fuzzified SVC for Single Phase System

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-42
Author(s):  
Osama Ahmed ◽  
Abdul Wali Abdul Ali
Keyword(s):  
Power System ◽  
Power Factor ◽  
Reactive Power ◽  
Power Factor Correction ◽  
Fast Response ◽  
Reactive Power Compensation ◽  
Phase System ◽  
Smart Meter ◽  
Power Monitoring ◽  
Compensating Devices

A power system suffers from losses that can cause tragic consequences. Reactive power presence in the power system increases system losses delivered power quality and distorted the voltage. As a result, many studies are concerned with reactive power compensation. The necessity of balancing resistive power generation and absorption throughout a power system gave birth to many devices used for reactive power compensation. Static Var Compensators are hunt devices used for the generation or absorption of reactive power as desired. SVCs provide fast and smooth compensation and power factor correction. In this paper, a Fuzzified Static Var Compensator consists of Thyristor Controlled Reactor (TCR) branch and Thyristor Switched Capacitors branches for reactive power compensation and power factor correction at the load side is presented. The system is simulated using Simulink using a group of blocks and equations for measuring power factor, determining the weightage by which the power factor is improved, determining the firing angle of TCR branch, and capacitor configuration of TSC branches. Furthermore, a hardware prototype is designed and implemented with its associated software; it includes a smart meter build-up for power monitoring, which displays voltage, current, real power, reactive power and power factor and SVC branches with TRIAC as the power switching device. Lastly, static and dynamic loads are used to test the system's capability in providing fast response and compensation. The simulation results illustrated the proposed system's capability and responsiveness in compensating the reactive power and correcting the power factor. It also highlighted the proportional relation between reactive power presence and the increased cost in electricity bills. The proposed smart meter and SVC prototypes proved their capabilities in giving accurate measurement and monitoring and sending the data to the graphical user interface through ZigBee communication and power factor correction. Reactive power presence is an undesired event that affects the equipment and connected consumers of a power system. Therefore, fast and smooth compensation for reactive power became a matter of concern to utility companies, power consumers and manufacturers. Therefore, the use of compensating devices is of much importance as they can increase power capacity, regulate the voltage and improve the power system performance.

scholarly journals Performance of Three Level H-Bridge Inverter in Grid Connected Solar PV for Multifunctional Operations using Different Control Techniques

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 1942-1950
Keyword(s):  
Power System ◽  
Power Factor ◽  
Reactive Power ◽  
Power Factor Correction ◽  
Solar Pv ◽  
Distribution Grid ◽  
Nonlinear Loads ◽  
Nonlinear Load ◽  
Control Techniques ◽  
Active And Reactive Power

This paper presents multifunctional operation capability of three level cascade H bridge inverter for grid connected solar pv application. The solar panel and inverter are modelled for unbalance and nonlinear loads with three control techniques (pq,dq,cpt) and its performance is simulated in the MATLAB environment using SIMULINK and Sim Power System (SPS) toolboxes. The performance of inverter is evaluated for harmonics elimination, power factor correction apart from active and reactive power support to grid and nonlinear load .Performance of three level H bridge inverter is evaluated for both PV mode and STATCOM mode using three control techniques for distribution grid.

scholarly journals Power factor correction in power delivery systems with mutipulse nonlinear loads

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 3-15
Author(s):  
D. E. Egorov ◽  
V. P. Dovgun ◽  
N. P. Boyarskaya ◽  
A. V. Jan ◽  
A. S. Slyusarev
Keyword(s):  
Power Factor ◽  
Distribution Systems ◽  
Reactive Power ◽  
Power Factor Correction ◽  
Reactive Power Compensation ◽  
Delivery Systems ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Power Delivery ◽  
Nonlinear Loads ◽  
Compensating Devices

THE PURPOSE. Мutipulse rectifiers are widely used as a nonlinear loads in industrial distribution systems. The advantage of mutipulse rectifiers is low harmonic emission and high power factor. However input currents of mutipulse rectifiers have a wide spectrum including characteristic and noncharacteristic harmonics. This has a negative impact on the power quality. Shunt capacitors are the simplest form of reactive power compensation in industrial power distribution systems. However power systems with nonlinear loads suffer from severe harmonic distortion due to the parallel resonance between capacitors and system inductance. Special compensating devices for reactive power compensation and correction of power system frequency response for resonances damping are necessary. METHODS. In this paper shunt compensating devices for power delivery systems with multipulse nonlinear loads are considered. Proposed devices are composed of 3-5 order parallel connected passive broadband filters. They provide power factor correction, voltage and current harmonics mitigation and resonance modes damping. A general broadband filter design procedure based on frequency and reactive power scaling of normalized filter parameters is developed. RESULTS. Characteristics of different compensating devices configurations using broadband passive filters are discussed. It is shown that broadband filtering devices enable compensation of fundamental frequency reactive power as well as mitigation of voltage harmonic level to values determined by Russian and international standards. Proposed devices have lower fundamental power losses in c omparing with known solutions. CONCLUSION. Proposed analytical design method is applicable to broadband filters of different orders.

Research on Automatic Controlling Method of TSC+TCR Typed Dynamic Reactive Power Compensation

2015 ◽  
Vol 1092-1093 ◽  
pp. 321-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ming Zhao ◽  
Shi Fu Zhang ◽  
Bin Yi ◽  
Xiao Qin Zhang ◽  
Dong Mei Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Power System ◽  
Simulation Model ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Power Factor ◽  
Reactive Power ◽  
Reactive Power Compensation ◽  
Primary System ◽  
Compensation Control ◽  
Simulation Results

A simulation model of 230kV substation primary system and TSC+TCR typed dynamic reactive power compensation control system was constituted with RTDS, and the feasibility of control system with a case was validated. The control system was to monitor the variation of power system equivalent susceptance with sampling the power system voltage, established the relationships between power system susceptance and the firing angle of TCR, adjusted TSC switch and TCR firing angle to dynamically compensate the reactive power of power system. The simulation results demonstrate that the control system can guarantee power system voltage stability and real-time adjust power factor.

Harmonic Amplification Damping Using a DSTATCOM-based Artificial Intelligence Controller

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 521-530
Author(s):  
Raghad Ali Mejeed ◽  
Ahmed K. Jameil ◽  
Husham Idan Hussein
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Power System ◽  
Reactive Power ◽  
Reactive Power Compensation ◽  
Static Synchronous Compensator ◽  
Nonlinear Loads ◽  
Control Approach ◽  
Loads Analysis ◽  
Linear And Nonlinear ◽  
Simulation Results

Background & Objective: Harmonic amplification is one of the primary issues in power system networks. The objective of this study is to manage the harmonic event and its significant effects on power quality. A new control approach that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) is proposed and applied to a Distribution Static Synchronous Compensator (DSTATCOM). DSTATCOM is a FACTS device that can achieve highly effective reactive power compensation to reduce and/or damp the harmonic amplification in power system networks. Results & Conclusion: Simulation results are obtained using the MATLAB/Simulink package. The validity and effectiveness of using the AI approach are proven based on the DSTATCOM FACTs device with linear and nonlinear loads. Analysis results are discussed.

Research of Integrated Distribution Scheme of Reactive Power Compensation Based on SVG for Coal Mine Power System

2013 ◽  
Vol 457-458 ◽  
pp. 1585-1588
Author(s):  
Yan Wen Wang ◽  
Dan Lu
Keyword(s):  
Power System ◽  
Power Factor ◽  
Coal Mine ◽  
Power Distribution ◽  
Reactive Power ◽  
Low Voltage ◽  
Reactive Power Compensation ◽  
Matlab Simulation ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Distribution Scheme

Aiming at the situation of the low power factor of coal mine power system, this paper puts forward an integrated distribution scheme of reactive power compensation based on SVG. In this paper, not only the disadvantageous influences of reactive power of coal mine power network are analyzed, but also the working principle and advantages of SVG are introduced. This paper proposes a distribution scheme of three-level reactive power compensation, which is to compensate in the sides of high voltage, high-low voltage power distribution and the long-distance high-power loads. According to the results of theoretical calculation and MATLAB simulation, the scheme can reduce the power loss and increase the power factor, so the power quality of coal mine can be improved.

scholarly journals Improvement of the performance of STATCOM in terms of voltage profile using ANN controller

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1966
Author(s):  
Mohammed Salheen Alatshan ◽  
Ibrahim Alhamrouni ◽  
Tole Sutikno ◽  
Awang Jusoh
Keyword(s):  
Power System ◽  
Reactive Power ◽  
Voltage Drop ◽  
Pi Controller ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Voltage Profile ◽  
Static Synchronous Compensator ◽  
Three Phase ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Artificial Neural Network Ann

The electronic equipments are extremely sensitive to variation in electric supply. The increasing of a nonlinear system with several interconnected unpredicted and non-linear loads are causing some problems to the power system. The major problem facing the power system is power quality, controlling of reactive power and voltage drop. A static synchronous compensator (STATCOM) is an important device commonly used for compensation purposes, it can provide reactive support to a bus to compensate voltage level. In this paper, the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) controlled STATCOM has been designed to replace the conventional PI controller to enhance the STATCOM performance. The ANN controller is proposed due to its simple structure, adaptability, robustness, considering the power grid non linearities. The ANN is trained offline using data from the PI controller. The performance of STATCOM with case of Load increasing and three-phase faults case was analyzed using MATLAB/Simulink software on the IEEE 14-bus system. The comprehensive result of the PI and ANN controllers has demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed ANN controller in enhancing the STATCOM performance for Voltage profile at different operating conditions. Furthermore, it has produced better results than the conventional PI controller.

scholarly journals A Simulation Study on Controlling Excitation Current of Synchronous Motor and Reactive Power Compensation via PSO Based PID and PID Controllers

2018 ◽  
pp. 103-110
Author(s):  
Ahmet Gani ◽  
Hakan Acikgoz ◽  
Okkes Fatih Kececioglu ◽  
Erdal Kilic ◽  
Mustafa Sekkeli
Keyword(s):  
Power Systems ◽  
Power System ◽  
Power Factor ◽  
Reactive Power ◽  
Synchronous Motor ◽  
Reactive Power Compensation ◽  
Pid Controllers ◽  
Excitation Current ◽  
Industrial Facilities ◽  
Synchronous Motors

The increasing need for energy requires using existing energy sources more efficiently. Because it is the active power that supplies useful power for industrial facilities, reactive power must be minimized, and supplied by another source instead of electrical grid. Therefore, reactive power supplied by the grid can be reduced via by correcting power factor of the grid. In electrical power systems, power factor correction is called reactive power compensation. Generating reactive power during excessive excitation, synchronous motors are used as dynamic compensators in power systems. Synchronous motors are more cost-effective for industrial facilities when they are used to generate mechanic power and compensate reactive power, which increases the efficiency of industrial facilities. There are various studies focusing on the efficiency, capacity and stability of the power system via reactive power compensation in the literature. In today's world, there are numerous optimization techniques inspired by biological systems. One of these techniques is Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) inspired by the movements of swarms of birds. This study focuses on the reactive power compensation of a power system by controlling the excitation current of a synchronous motor via PSO based PID and Ziegler Nichols (Z-N) based PID controllers.

scholarly journals Power factor correction using capacitors & filters

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2.12) ◽  
pp. 234
Author(s):  
Karthik Subramanian ◽  
Shantam Tandon
Keyword(s):  
Root Mean Square ◽  
Phase Difference ◽  
Power Factor ◽  
Reactive Power ◽  
Power Factor Correction ◽  
Active Filters ◽  
Minimum Amount ◽  
Mean Square ◽  
The Real ◽  
Electrical Consumption

Power factor is the ratio of the real current or voltage received by a load to the root mean square (rms) value of the current or voltage that was supposed to be acquired by the same load. The fact that the two become different is due to the presence of reactive power in the circuit which gets dissipated.Improving the power factor means reducing the phase difference between voltage and current. Since majority of the loads are of inductive nature, they require some amount of reactive power for them to function. Therefore, for the better use of electrical appliances with minimum amount of electrical consumption, the power factor should necessarily be increased and should be brought near to 1. This can be easily done by the help of Automatic Power Factor Correction Capacitors and Active filters.  

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