Modeling and Simulation of the Anticipated Effects of the Synchronous Condenser on an Electric-Power Network with Participating Wind Plants

Famous O. Igbinovia, Ghaeth Fandi, Ibrahim Ahmad, Zdenek Muller and Josef Tlusty
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Famous O. Igbinovia: Department of Electrical Power Engineering, Czech Technical University (CTU) in Prague, Technická 2, Praha 6—Dejvice, 166 27 Prague, Czech Republic
Ghaeth Fandi: Department of Electrical Power Engineering, Czech Technical University (CTU) in Prague, Technická 2, Praha 6—Dejvice, 166 27 Prague, Czech Republic
Ibrahim Ahmad: Department of Electrical Power Engineering, Czech Technical University (CTU) in Prague, Technická 2, Praha 6—Dejvice, 166 27 Prague, Czech Republic
Zdenek Muller: Department of Electrical Power Engineering, Czech Technical University (CTU) in Prague, Technická 2, Praha 6—Dejvice, 166 27 Prague, Czech Republic
Josef Tlusty: Department of Electrical Power Engineering, Czech Technical University (CTU) in Prague, Technická 2, Praha 6—Dejvice, 166 27 Prague, Czech Republic

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 12, 1-17

Abstract: Installing a synchronous condenser (SC) onto an electricity grid can assist in the areas of reactive power needs, short-circuit strength, and, consequently, system inertia and guarantees better dynamic voltage recovery. This paper summarizes the practical potential of the synchronous condenser coordinated in an electric-power network with participating wind plants to supply reactive power compensation and injection of active power at their point of common coupling; it provides a systematic assessment method for simulating and analyzing the anticipated effects of the synchronous condenser on a power network with participating wind plants. A 33-kV power line has been used as a case study. The results indicate that the effect of the adopted synchronous condenser solution model in the MATLAB/Simulink environment provides reactive power, enhances voltage stability, and minimizes power losses, while the wind power plants provide active power support with given practical grid rules.

Keywords: active power; reactive power; reactive power compensation; synchronous condensers; wind plants; electric-power network (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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