Reference wave generation in dynamic voltage restorers by use of PQR power theory

Dynamic voltage restorer (DVR)s are known as effective and economic means to compensate for voltage sags and swells. This paper proposes a novel method to generate reference waves synchronized with the grid whether or not the line voltages are distorted by a fault. The proposed reference wave generator (RWG) looks for the normal voltage waveforms in the grid from the corrupted line voltages and synthesizes the expected positive sequence reference waves for DVRs. There is no transient problem on the generated reference waves when the line voltages are distorted by faults. Experimental results verified the proposed theory very well.