Transient stability enhancement by using fuel cell as STATCOM

Author

Bhaskar, M. Arun ; Sarathkumar, D. ; Anand, M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of EEE, Velammal Eng. Coll., Chennai, India

fYear

2014

fDate

13-14 Feb. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Today´s power industry faces lot of problem in maintaining the voltage stability and system stability. Installation of compensating devices proves to be a solution. But the cost of compensating devices adds burden to the consumer consumption changes. Hence a new method of utilizing fuel cell a renewable energy source as a compensating device is proposed in this work. Fuel cell is modelled as Staic Synchronous Compensator (STATCOM) - a FACTS compensating device. The ability of the fuel cell based STATCOM in improving the system voltage stability and transient stability after a fault condition is also done in MATLAB simulink environment.

Keywords

flexible AC transmission systems; fuel cells; power system transient stability; renewable energy sources; static VAr compensators; FACTS compensating device; STATCOM; fuel cell; renewable energy source; static synchronous compensator; system stability; transient stability enhancement; voltage stability; Automatic voltage control; Computers; Couplings; Fuel cells; Inverters; Tin; Closed Loop System; FACTS; Fault; Fuel cell; STATCOM; Transient stability; Voltage Stability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics and Communication Systems (ICECS), 2014 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Coimbatore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2321-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECS.2014.6892553

Filename

6892553