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Operation of Dstatcom

The D-STATCOM consists of a voltage source converter (VSC), coupling reactors, and a controller. It generates a controllable AC voltage through the VSC connected to a DC capacitor. Reactive power exchange between the D-STATCOM and power system is caused by voltage differences across the coupling reactors. The D-STATCOM is connected near loads to address voltage quality issues. It regulates both AC bus voltage and internal DC voltage through feedback control of the VSC switching signals.

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Operation of Dstatcom

The D-STATCOM consists of a voltage source converter (VSC), coupling reactors, and a controller. It generates a controllable AC voltage through the VSC connected to a DC capacitor. Reactive power exchange between the D-STATCOM and power system is caused by voltage differences across the coupling reactors. The D-STATCOM is connected near loads to address voltage quality issues. It regulates both AC bus voltage and internal DC voltage through feedback control of the VSC switching signals.

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The D-STATCOM is basically one of the custom power devices.

It is nothing but a STATCOM but


used at the Distribution level. The D-STATCOM is a voltage or current source inverter based
custom power device connected in shunt with the power system. It is connected near the load
at the distribution systems. The key component of the D-STATCOM is a power VSC that is based
on high power electronics technologies. Basically, the D-STATCOM system is comprised of three
main parts: a VSC, a set of coupling reactors and a controller. The basic principle of a D-
STATCOM installed in a power system is the generation of a controllable ac voltage source by a
voltage source converter (VSC) connected to a dc capacitor (energy storage device). The ac
voltage source, in general, appears behind a transformer leakage reactance. The active and
reactive power transfer between the power system and the D-STATCOM is caused by the
voltage difference across this reactance. The D-STATCOM is connected in shunt with the power
networks at customer side, where the voltage-quality problem is a concern. All required
voltages and currents are measured and are fed into the controller to be compared with the
commands. The controller then performs feedback control and outputs a set of switching
signals to drive the main semiconductor switches (IGBTs, which are used at the distribution
level) of the power converter accordingly. The ac voltage control is achieved by firing angle
control. Ideally the output voltage of the VSC is in phase with the bus voltage. In steady state,
the dc side capacitance is maintained at a fixed voltage and there is no real power exchange,
except for losses.

OPERATION OF DSTATCOM:
DSTATCOM consists of an inverter, dc link capacitance C that providing the dc voltage for
inverter, coupling inductance L used for current filter and reactive power exchange between D-
STATCOM and power system and a control unit to generate PWM signals for the switches of
inverter. Rdc and R respectively represents switching losses in inverter and winding resistance
of coupling inductance. Exchange of reactive power between distribution system and D-
STATCOM is achieved by regulating amplitude of the inverter output voltage V i. The D-
STATCOM operation is illustrated by the phasor diagrams shown in Figure 2.

If output voltage of D-STATCOM Vi is equal to AC system voltage Vs, exchange reactive power
between D-STATCOM and gird will be zero and D-STATCOM operates in standby mode (Figure
1(a)).

If output voltage of D-STATCOM Vi is greater than ac system voltage V s, D-STATCOM generate a


capacitive reactive power (Figure 1(b)) and finally if output voltage of D-STATCOM V i is lower
than ac system voltage Vs, DSTATCOM absorbed an inductive reactive power (Figure 1(c)).

Reactive and active power that generated or (absorbed) by D-STATCOM respectively is given,
Where X is reactance of coupling inductance and δ is phase angle between fundamental
voltages of D-STATCOM and AC grid.

Operating Principle of DSTATCOM

Basically, the DSTATCOM system is comprised of three main parts: a Voltage Source Converter
(VSC), a set of coupling reactors and a controller. The basic principle of a DSTATCOM installed in
a power system is the generation of a controllable ac voltage source by a voltage source
inverter (VSI) connected to a dc capacitor (energy storage device). The ac voltage source, in
general, appears behind a transformer leakage reactance. The active and reactive power
transfer between the power system and the DSTATCOM is caused by the voltage difference
across this reactance. The DSTATCOM is connected to the power networks where the voltage-
quality problem is a concern. All required voltages and currents are measured and are fed into
the controller to be compared with the commands. The controller then performs feedback
control and outputs a set of switching signals to drive the main semiconductor switches (IGBT’s,
which are used at the distribution level) of the power converter accordingly.

The AC voltage control is achieved by firing angle control. Ideally the output voltage of the VSI is
in phase with the bus (where the DSTATCOM is connected.) voltage. In steady state, the dc side
capacitance is maintained at a fixed voltage and there is no real power exchange, except for
losses. The DSTATCOM differs from other reactive power generating devices (such as shunt
Capacitors, Static VAR Compensators etc.) in the sense that the ability for energy storage is not
a rigid necessity but is only required for System unbalance or harmonic absorption.

There are two control objectives implemented in the DSTATCOM. One is the ac voltage
regulation of the power system at the bus where the DSTATCOM is connected. And the other is
dc voltage control across the capacitor inside the DSTATCOM. It is widely known that shunt
reactive power injection can be used to control the bus voltage. In conventional control
scheme, there are two voltage regulators designed for these purposes. AC voltage regulator for
bus voltage control and dc voltage regulator for capacitor voltage control. In the simplest
strategy, both the regulators are proportional integral (PI) type controllers.

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