Voltage Flicker Mitigation Using STATCOM and ESS

Author

Virulkar, V.B. ; Aware, M.V.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Visvesvaraya Nat. Inst. of Technol., Nagpur

fYear

2008

fDate

12-15 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

Voltage flicker, a phenomenon of annoying light intensity fluctuation, caused by rapid change in industrial and domestic load such as electric arc furnaces (EAF), rolling mills, welding equipments and pumps operating periodically has been a major concern for supply utilities, electricity regulatory agencies and costumers. SVC´s and STATCOM have been able to solve the voltage flicker problems by rapidly controlling the reactive power. But, control of active power along with reactive power control helps to mitigate the voltage flicker problem more effectively. In this paper, voltage flicker mitigation of EAF with STATCOM along with energy storage system (ESS) is presented and performance results of the system using the PSCAD/EMTDC software are analyzed.

Keywords

power supply quality; reactive power control; static VAr compensators; ESS; STATCOM; active power control; electric arc furnaces; electricity regulatory agencies; energy storage system; reactive power control; rolling mills; voltage flicker mitigation; welding equipments; Automatic voltage control; Electrical equipment industry; Electricity supply industry; Electronic switching systems; Furnaces; Milling machines; Reactive power control; Voltage control; Voltage fluctuations; Welding; Energy Storage System; Power Quality; STATCOM; Voltage Flicker;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power System Technology and IEEE Power India Conference, 2008. POWERCON 2008. Joint International Conference on

Conference_Location

New Delhi

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1763-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1762-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPST.2008.4745280

Filename

4745280