Comparative Study of Prototype and Simulation of SVC for Transmission Congestion Management

  • Khatavkar Vrushali
  • Redekar Abhijeet
  • Dharme Anjali
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Part of the Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering book series (LNEE, volume 326)

Abstract

In deregulated/restructured power system, congestion of electrical power is a major problem. The solution includes the management methodologies namely technical and pricing methods. The technical methods suggest the use of FACTS controllers to reduce the congestion without considering the economic matters. This work deals with designing a prototype of Static VAR Compensator (SVC). This SVC prototype comprises of 440 kV, 300 km modular transmission line model which operates on lab voltage i.e. 400 V, 50 Hz, and compensator consisting of three delta connected capacitors together with three delta connected air gap type linear inductors along with two anti-parallel thyristors. Modelling has been done considering two modes of thyristor i.e. when thyristor is ON and second when thyristor is OFF. Both modes are characterised by the time duration. With these two modes, two second order differential equations are derived and finally converted into second order state space model. This state space model will be helpful to predict the load voltage behaviour. SVC is modelled in MATLAB Simulink and simulation results are compared with the prototype results to validate the controller design parameters. The aim of this work is to enhance voltage stability and increase power transfer capability of the long transmission line using FC-TCR configuration of Static VAR Compensator.

Keywords

Static VAR compensator (SVC) Fixed capacitor thyristor controlled reactor (FC-TCR) PID controller 
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Acknowledgement

The authors gratefully acknowledge management of Bharati Vidyapeeth College of Engineering Pune, Modern College of Engineering Pune, College of Engineering Pune, and Mr. D.M. Tagare, Madhav Capacitors Pvt. Ltd. Pune for providing us facility to carry out research work efficiently.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Khatavkar Vrushali
    • 1
  • Redekar Abhijeet
    • 1
  • Dharme Anjali
    • 2
  1. 1.Department of Electrical EngineeringModern College of EngineeringPuneIndia
  2. 2.Department of Electrical EngineeringCollege of EngineeringPuneIndia

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