UNIFIED POWER QUALITY CONDITIONER (UPQC)

CONTROL USING FEED FORWARD (FF)/ FEED BACK

(FB) CONTROLLER
ABSTRACT
This project presents the new control design or the unified power quality (PQ)
conditioner (UPQC) for Power Quality improvement. The purpose of UPQC is to compensate for
voltage sags/swells, load demand changes, power factor correction etc,. The control strategy
employs a kalman filter to estimate the fundamental component as well as the harmonic
components of the voltage and current.
Simulation of the proposed method was carried out on a single- phase power distribution
system and the results of simulation shows that the proposed method is able to provide the
desirable power quality in the presence of a wide range of disturbances. In this project, a modelbased coordinated control is proposed for the UPQC. It is an FF/FB control that aims to regulate
the load voltage and supply current to the desired waveforms directly so that they are
undistorted. The coupling effect between series and shunt filters is also accounted for. In the
absence of any modelling error, zero steady-state error can be achieved by the FF control in
principle. Otherwise, the negative effects of any modeling errors introduced are mitigated by the
FB control. In general, the proposed control approach combines the following. A control
strategy for the Unified Power Quality Conditioner (UPQC) is proposed.
The proposed control has the ability to improve both the line voltage
and load current quality, including voltage sag/swell, harmonics and also
current of harmonics, reactive component. The adaptive performance of the
UPQC has been verified through simulation studies using MATLAB. The
design of the controller has been done through the study and construction of
Kalman filters to extract the fundamental and harmonics of the measured
voltage and current signals as well as to estimate the state variables of the
UPQC. It is concluded that this project ha demontrated a systematic
approach to the control design, providing an overall solution to a variety of
power quality problems.