HARMONICS REDUCTION AND POWER QUALITY IMPROVEMENT BY USING DPFC

ABSTRACT

The DPFC is derived from the unified power-flow controller (UPFC). The DPFC can be considered as a UPFC with an eliminated common dc link. The active power exchange between the shunt and series converters which is through the common dc link in the UPFC is now through the transmission lines at the third-harmonic frequency. The DPFC employs the distributed concept, in which the common dc-link between the shunt and series converters are eliminated and three-phase series converter is divided to several single-phase series distributed converters through the line. According to the growth of electricity demand and the increased number of non-linear loads in power grids harmonics, voltage sag and swell are the major power quality problems. DPFC is used to mitigate the voltage deviation and improve power quality. Simulations are carried out in MATLAB/Simulink environment. The presented simulation results validate the DPFC ability to improve the power quality.

KEYWORDS:

1.      Load flow control

2.      FACTS

3.       Power Quality

4.      Harmonics

5.      Sag and Swell Mitigation

6.      Distributed Power Flow Controller

7.      Y– transformer

SOFTWARE: MATLAB/SIMULINK

BLOCK DIAGRAM:

Fig. 1. Flowchart from UPFC to DPFC.

Fig. 2. DPFC configuration.

EXPECTED SIMULATION RESULTS:

Fig 3. three phase voltage sag waveform without DPFC

Fig. 4. Three phase voltage sag waveform with DPFC

Fig.5. 3- load current swell waveform without DPFC

Fig.6 Mitigation of 3- load current swell with DPFC

Fig.7.  Total harmonic distortion of load voltage without DPFC

Fig.8. Total harmonic distortion of load voltage with DPFC

CONCLUSION

This paper has presented a new concept called DPFC. The DPFC emerges from the UPFC and inherits the control capability of the UPFC, which is the simultaneous adjustment of the line impedance, the transmission angle, and the bus voltage magnitude. The common dc link between the shunt and series converters, which is used for exchanging active power in the UPFC, is eliminated. This power is now transmitted through the transmission line at the third-harmonic frequency. The series converter of the DPFC employs the DFACTS concept, which uses multiple small single-phase converters instead of one large-size converter. The reliability of the DPFC is greatly increased because of the redundancy of the series converters. The total cost of the DPFC is also much lower than the UPFC, because no high-voltage isolation is required at the series-converter part and the rating of the components of is low. To improve power quality in the power

transmission system, the harmonics due to nonlinear loads, voltage sag and swell are mitigated. To simulate the dynamic performance, a three-phase fault is considered near the load. It is shown that the DPFC gives an acceptable performance in power quality improvement and power flow control.

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