Design and implementation of a 154-kV ±50-Mvar transmission STATCOM based on 21-level cascaded Multilevel Converter

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1030-1045

  Gultekin, Burhan ^a,b   Gerçek, Cem Ozgur ^a,b   Atalik, Tevhid ^b,c   Deniz, Mustafa ^b   Biçer, Nazan ^b   Ermis, Muammer ^a   Kose, Kemal Nadir ^d   Ermis, Cezmi ^b   Koç, Erkan ^b   Çadirci, Işik ^b,e   Açik, Adnan ^b,f   Akkaya, Yener ^g   Toygar, Hikmet ^g   Bideci, Semih ^g  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Uzay Teknolojileri Araptyrma Enstitusu Turkey   (Turkey)

^c BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d Magellan Power Systems   (Australia)

^e HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^f Endoks Energy Systems   (Turkey)

^g Turkiye Elektrik Iletim Anonim Sirketi   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Modified selective swapping (MSS); multilevel converters (MCs); terminal voltage regulation; transmission static synchronous compensator (STATCOM) (T STATCOM)

Indexed keywords

CASCADED MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; DC LINK CAPACITOR; FIELD TEST; FULL-LOAD; H-BRIDGES; MODIFIED SELECTIVE SWAPPING (MSS); MULTILEVEL CONVERTER; POWER DENSITIES; POWER STAGE; POWER SYSTEM STABILITY; REACTIVE POWER COMPENSATION; STATCOM; STATIC SYNCHRONOUS COMPENSATOR; SWAPPING ALGORITHMS; TERMINAL VOLTAGE REGULATION;

ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR CORRECTION; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; SYSTEM STABILITY; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

SYNCHRONOUS MACHINERY;

EID: 84861427994     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2012.2190690     Document Type: Conference Paper

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