New configuration of 36-pulse voltage source converter for STATCOM application

Author

Han, Byung-Moon ; Baek, Seung-Taek ; Ko, Jong-Sun

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Myongji Univ., Yongin

fYear

2005

fDate

6-6 Nov. 2005

Abstract

This paper proposes a new configuration of 36-pulse voltage source converter for STATCOM application, composed of two 6-pulse bridges and a pulse-interleaving auxiliary circuit. The converter topology was devised to increase the number of pulses of the output voltage without increasing the number of 6-pulse bridges and coupling transformers. The operational feasibility of proposed system was verified by computer simulations with PSCAD/EMTDC software and experimental works with 2 kVA hardware prototype. The proposed converter can be widely used for the power quality compensator and the distributed power generation, such as solar and fuel cell power system

Keywords

bridge circuits; digital simulation; power convertors; power system CAD; pulse circuits; static VAr compensators; transformers; 2 kVA; 36-pulse voltage source converter; 6-pulse bridges; PSCAD-EMTDC software; STATCOM application; computer simulation; coupling transformer; distributed power generation; power quality compensator; pulse-interleaving auxiliary circuit; Application software; Automatic voltage control; Bridge circuits; Circuit topology; Computer simulation; Coupling circuits; EMTDC; PSCAD; Pulse circuits; Pulse transformers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics Society, 2005. IECON 2005. 31st Annual Conference of IEEE

Conference_Location

Raleigh, NC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9252-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IECON.2005.1569018

Filename

1569018