Design and development of an 11kV H-bridge multilevel STATCOM

Author

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

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2007

fDate

9-12 Dec. 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

This tutorial paper outlines the design and development of a "state-of-the-art" 11 kV direct connection multilevel static compensator (STATCOM) based on cascaded H-bridges. This STATCOM is currently being developed at the University of Newcastle under a linkage project with industrial partner, ResTech Pty Ltd, which is a company jointly owned by Ampcontrol Pty Ltd and the University of Newcastle. This is a large scale project involving a high degree of innovation - there are currently no commercially available direct connect STATCOMs using this topology. The paper will concentrate on the hardware and software design issues.

Keywords

design engineering; static VAr compensators; transmission networks; AC transmission networks; H-bridge multilevel STATCOM; University of Newcastle; direct connection multilevel static compensator; innovation project; power electronic systems; voltage 11 kV; Automatic voltage control; Circuit topology; Electric variables control; Insulated gate bipolar transistors; Power electronics; Power harmonic filters; Pulse width modulation inverters; STATCOM; Thyristors; Virtual colonoscopy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Engineering Conference, 2007. AUPEC 2007. Australasian Universities

Conference_Location

Perth, WA

Print_ISBN

978-0-646-49488-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-646-49499-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AUPEC.2007.4548090

Filename

4548090