VAR planning with tuning of STATCOM in a DG integrated industrial system

IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 875-885

  Aziz, T ^a   Hossain, M J ^b   Saha, T K ^a   Mithulananthan, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Controller tuning; distributed generation; static synchronous compensator (STATCOM); VAR planning; voltage recovery

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLER TUNING; FLEXIBLE AC TRANSMISSION SYSTEM; POWER SYSTEM ENGINEERS; REACTIVE POWER SUPPORT; STATIC SYNCHRONOUS COMPENSATOR; VAR PLANNING; VOLTAGE RECOVERY; WEAKLY MESHED DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS;

DAMPING; DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC CURRENT REGULATORS; POWER ELECTRONICS; RECOVERY;

ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR CORRECTION;

EID: 84875658588     PISSN: 08858977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2012.2229722     Document Type: Article

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