Static Reactive Power Compensator Design, Based on Three-Phase Voltage Converter

Manuel Ayala-Chauvin, Bahodurjon S. Kavrakov, Jorge Buele and José Varela-Aldás
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Manuel Ayala-Chauvin: SISAu Research Group, Facultad de Ingeniería y Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación, Universidad Tecnológica Indoamérica, Campus Agramonte, Ambato 180103, Ecuador
Bahodurjon S. Kavrakov: School of Energy and Power Engineering, Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk 634050, Russia
Jorge Buele: SISAu Research Group, Facultad de Ingeniería y Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación, Universidad Tecnológica Indoamérica, Campus Agramonte, Ambato 180103, Ecuador
José Varela-Aldás: SISAu Research Group, Facultad de Ingeniería y Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación, Universidad Tecnológica Indoamérica, Campus Agramonte, Ambato 180103, Ecuador

Energies, 2021, vol. 14, issue 8, 1-16

Abstract: At present, electrical network stability is of the utmost importance because of the increase in electric demand and the integration of distributed generation deriving from renewable energy. In this paper, we proposed a static reactive power compensator model with common direct current voltage sources. Converter parameters were calculated and designed to fulfill specifications. In order to ascertain the device response for different operating modes as reactive power consumer and generator, we developed the model’s power and control circuits in Matlab Simulink. Simulations were performed for different conditions, and as a result, the current and voltage waveforms and the circular power chart were obtained. This paper has theoretically proven it is possible to achieve the consumption or generation of purely active or reactive power by implementing a static reactive power compensator with common DC voltage sources.

Keywords: STATCOM; static synchronous compensators; FACTS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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