Update on the development of a medium voltage multilevel cascaded H-bridge STATCOM

Author

Betz, R.E. ; Cook, B.J. ; Summers, T.J. ; Fisher, R. ; Bastiani, A. ; Shao, S. ; Willis, K.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW

fYear

2008

fDate

14-17 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

At AUPEC 2007 a paper was presented titled ldquoDesign and development of an 11kV H-bridge multilevel STATCOMrdquo. This paper is an update of this former paper, and will present some preliminary experimental results and practical insights gained into the control of a low voltage prototype system that has been completed and commissioned since the previous paper. Early results showing output waveforms from the low voltage prototype will be presented. Furthermore, lessons learned with respect to the hardware architecture and control algorithms will be highlighted.

Keywords

bridge circuits; cascade networks; power conversion; static VAr compensators; low-voltage prototype system; medium-voltage converter; multilevel cascaded H-bridge STATCOM control; static compensator design; voltage 11 kV; Australia; Automatic voltage control; Capacitors; Flexible AC transmission systems; Low voltage; Medium voltage; Network topology; Prototypes; Transformers; Voltage control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Engineering Conference, 2008. AUPEC '08. Australasian Universities

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Print_ISBN

978-0-7334-2715-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4162-4

Type

conf

Filename

4813069