Design and Development of a Static VAR Compensator for Load Compensation Using Real-Time Digital Simulator and Hardware Simulation

Author

Berge, Jonathan ; Varma, Rajiv K.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Western Ontario, London

fYear

2007

fDate

10-12 Oct. 2007

Firstpage

6

Lastpage

12

Abstract

A static VAr compensator (SVC) is designed for compensation of a midsized three-phase unbalanced industrial load. The control system is programmed in the National Instruments LabView programming environment and implemented in an Intel based platform using National Instruments digital to analog conversion and timing hardware. The hardware design is done for a fixed capacitor-thyristor controlled reactor (FC-TCR) configuration of a static VAr compensator (SVC). The SVC controller is tested on both a real-time digital simulator (RTDS) and a physical hardware model.

Keywords

digital-analogue conversion; power capacitors; static VAr compensators; thyristor applications; Intel based platform; National Instruments LabView programming environment; digital to analog conversion; fixed capacitor thyristor controlled reactor; hardware simulation; load compensation; real-time digital simulator; static VAR compensator; three-phase unbalanced industrial load; Control systems; Digital-analog conversion; Electrical equipment industry; Hardware; Inductors; Instruments; Load management; Programming environments; Static VAr compensators; Timing; Load Compensation; Power Factor Correction; Reactive Power; Real-Time Digital Simulation; Static Var Compensator (SVC);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Engineering, 2007 Large Engineering Systems Conference on

Conference_Location

Montreal, Que.

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1583-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1583-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LESCPE.2007.4437344

Filename

4437344