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Tuesday 12 June 2018

Three-Level 48-Pulse STATCOM with Pulse Width Modulation



 ABSTRACT:

In this paper, a new control strategy of a three level 48-pulse static synchronous compensator (STATCOM) is proposed with a constant dc link voltage and pulse width modulation at fundamental frequency switching. The proposed STATCOM is realized using eight units of three-level voltage source converters (VSCs) to form a three-level 48-pulse STATCOM. The conduction angle of each three-level VSC is modulated to control the ac converter output voltage, which controls the reactive power of the STATCOM. A fuzzy logic controller is used to control the STATCOM. The dynamic performance of the STATCOM is studied for the control of the reference reactive power, the reference terminal voltage and under the switching of inductive and capacitive loads.
KEYWORDS:
1.      Fuzzy logic control (FLC)
2.      Static synchronous compensator (STATCOM)
3.      Voltage source converter (VSC)
4.      Flexible ac transmission system (FACTS)
5.      Power frequency switching (PFS)

SOFTWARE: MATLAB/SIMULINK


 BLOCK DIAGRAM:



Fig. 1 System configuration for simulation

 EXPECTED SIMULATION RESULTS:





Fig. 2 a Dynamic performance of STATCOM for varying the reference reactive power. b Zoomed-in waveforms of the STATCOM ac current as well the dc current during a floating, b capacitive and c inductive operations






Fig. 3 Dynamic performance of STATCOM for varying the reference terminal voltage




Fig. 4 Dynamic performance of STATCOM by switching on inductive and capacitive loads






Fig. 5 a ac terminal voltage without STATCOM on switching non-linear load. b Dynamic performance of STATCOM and ac terminal voltage by switching on switching non-linear load



Fig. 6 Dynamic performance of STATCOM by switching on large value of apparent power



Fig. 7 Dynamic performance of STATCOM under short circuit of the upper half of the dc bus capacitance





Fig. 8 Dynamic performance of STATCOM under short circuit of the complete dc bus capacitance

Fig. 9 a Variation of the dc voltage with sudden load change using a PI and an FLC. b Variation of the ac terminal voltage with sudden load change using a PI and an FLC
CONCLUSION:
A new control strategy of a three-level 48-pulse STATCOM has been proposed with a constant dc link voltage and pulse width modulation at fundamental frequency switching. Its performance has been validated using MATLAB/Simulink. Simulation results have validated the satisfactory dynamic and steady performances of the proposed STATCOM operation. The harmonic content of the STATCOM current is found well below 5 % as per IEEE 519 standard [27].

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