Novel controllers for the 48-pulse VSC STATCOM and SSSC for voltage regulation and reactive power compensation

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1985-1997

  El Moursi, M Shawky ^a   Sharaf, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

48 pulse Gate Turn Off (GTO) thyristor model STATCOM; Novel decoupled control strategy; Reactive compensation; Static Synchronous Series Compensator (SSSC); voltage stabilization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CURRENT CONTROL; POWER CONVERTERS; REACTIVE POWER; THYRISTORS; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

GATE TURN-OFF (GTO) THYRISTOR; NOVEL DECOUPLED CONTROL STRATEGY; REACTIVE POWER COMPENSATION; STATIC SYNCHRONOUS COMPENSATOR (STATCOM); STATIC SYNCHRONOUS SERIES COMPENSATOR (SSSC); VOLTAGE STABILIZATION;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS;

EID: 28244455100     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2005.856996     Document Type: Article

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