A New Configuration of Unified Power Quality Conditioner for Simultaneous Compensation in Adjacent Feeders
Subject Areas : electrical and computer engineeringH. R. Mohammadi 1 , A. Yazdian Varjani 2 , H. mokhtari 3
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2 - Tarbiat Modares University
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Keywords: Active power filterPower qualityPSCAD/EMTDCunified power quality conditioner (UPQC),
Abstract :
In this paper a new configuration of unified power quality conditioner (UPQC) is proposed. In this new configuration, by adding a series converter in an adjacent feeder, the abilities of the UPQC are enhanced. The proposed configuration can be applied to adjacent feeders to compensate for supply voltage and load current imperfections on the main feeder and fully compensation of supply voltage imperfections, especially interruption, on other feeder. In this configuration two series and one shunt converters are used which all are voltage source converters (VSC). All VSCs are connected back to back on the DC side and shared a common DC-link capacitor. The proposed configuration offers the following advantages: 1) Power transfer between two adjacent feeders for sag/swell and interruption compensation. 2) Using one shunt VSC for current compensation in main feeder and voltage regulation of common DC link capacitor between all VSCs. The simulation results obtained in PSCAD/EMTDC on a two bus/two feeder system show the effectiveness of the proposed configuration as well as the adopted control system.
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