Design and Implementation of a 154-kV +/- 50-Mvar Transmission STATCOM Based on 21-Level Cascaded Multilevel Converter

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2012-05-01

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Gultekin, Burhan
Gercek, Cem Ozgur
Atalik, Tevhid
Deniz, Mustafa
Bicer, Nazan
Ermiş, Muammer
Kose, Kemal Nadir
Ermis, Cezmi
Koc, Erkan
Cadirci, Isik
Acik, Adnan
Akkaya, Yener
Toygar, Hikmet
Bideci, Semih

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In this research work, the design and implementation of a 154-kV +/- 50-Mvar transmission static synchronous compensator (T-STATCOM) have been carried out primarily for the purposes of reactive power compensation and terminal voltage regulation and secondarily for power system stability. The implemented T-STATCOM consists of five 10.5-kV +/- 12-Mvar cascaded multilevel converter (CMC) modules operating in parallel. The power stage of each CMC is composed of five series-connected H-bridges (HBs) in each phase, thus resulting in 21-level line-to-line voltages. Due to modularity and flexibility of implemented HBs, each CMC module has reached a power density of 250 kvar/m(3), thus making the mobility of the system implementable. DC-link capacitor voltages of HBs are perfectly balanced by means of the modified selective swapping algorithm proposed. The field tests carried out at full load in the 154-kV transformer substation where T-STATCOM is installed have shown that the steady-state and transient responses of the system are quite satisfactory.

Subject Keywords

Modified selective swapping (MSS), Multilevel converters (MCs), Terminal voltage regulation, Transmission static synchronous compensator (STATCOM) (T-STATCOM)

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/29979

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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS

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https://doi.org/10.1109/tia.2012.2190690

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B. Gultekin et al., “Design and Implementation of a 154-kV +/- 50-Mvar Transmission STATCOM Based on 21-Level Cascaded Multilevel Converter,” IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS, pp. 1030–1045, 2012, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/29979.