Investigation of voltage swell mitigation using STATCOM

• Main Authors: Razak N.A.A., Jaafar S., Hussain I.S.
• Other Authors: 56960052400
• Format: Conference paper
• Published: Institute of Physics Publishing 2023
• Subjects: Control mechanism; Controller systems; D-q transformation; Distribution systems; Harmful effects; Harmonic frequency; Negative sequence; Power quality problem; electrical power; energy efficiency; estimation method; numerical model; power generation; simulation; Electric current regulators

STATCOM is one of the best applications of a self commutated FACTS device to control power quality problems in the distribution system. This project proposed a STATCOM model with voltage control mechanism. DQ transformation was implemented in the controller system to achieve better estimation. Then, the model was used to investigate and analyse voltage swell problem in distribution system. The simulation results show that voltage swell could contaminate distribution network with unwanted harmonic frequencies. Negative sequence frequencies give harmful effects to the network. System connected with proposed STATCOM model illustrates that it could mitigate this problems efficiently. � Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.