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Abstract- Swells and overvoltages can cause overheating, Basically, the SSC draws active power from its energy
tripping or even destruction of industrial equipment such as storage capacitor (ESC) to restore the load voltage. The
motor drives and control relays. This paper investigates the required active power depends mainly on the
possibility of employing the Static Series Compensator characteristics of the encountered dip and the load
(SSC) to mitigate voltage swellslovervoltages. I n the case of
voltage swells, active power may be drawn from the grid current. However, in the case of voltage swells, some
into the energy-storage capacitor (ESC) of the SSC, amount of active power may be drawn from the grid into
depending on the load current and the S S C impedance. This the SSC. Thus, the SSC design and the control should be
active power may overcharge the ESC. Two possibilities to done carefully in order to take this into account. In
overcome this situation are explored in this paper: I) if the literature concerning the SSC, the focus has been given to
dc-voltage of the ESC is lower than a predetermined voltage the operation of the SSC under voltage dips and distorted
level, the active power is employed to charge the ESC to this
voltage level; 2) otherwise, the overvoltage protection of the utility. In contrast to this, this paper investigates the
S S C must operate. This paper also applies an overvoltage operation of the SSC when a voltage swell is detected in
protection scheme based on a combination of a de resistor the grid side. The reminder of this paper is arranged as
with a chopper and the valves of the SSC. The design of the follows: Section 11 explains the operational principle as
de resistor is discussed. A 10 kV SSC experimental setup is well as the exploited controller of the SSC. The
exploited to carry out experiments in the case of balanced consequences of voltage swells on the SSC are explored
and unbalanced voltage swells at the grid side.
Index Term- Power Quality, Series-Connected Converters, in Section 111. Simulation results are presented in Section
Voltage swells [V. Section V shows the experimental verification of the
system performance. The overvoltage protection scheme
1. INTRODUCTION is discussed in Section VI and guidelines for designing
the dc resistor using a chopper are given.
USTOMERS of electric energy place their demands
C on the supplied voltage by utilities to be more or less
ideal. By definition, ideal sinusoidal voltage waveform
11. OPERATIONAL PRINCIPLE OF SSC
has the characteristics: constant magnitude at the required A. Description of SSC
level, constant frequency and balanced in the case of
The basic function of the SSC is to dynamically inject a
three-phase operation. Naturally, this is not always
controlled voltage to keep the load voltage constant. An
possible because of normal system variations and due to
idealized model of the SSC and the grid is shown in
the unavoidable incidents that temporarily can affect the
Fig.la where the SSC is modeled as an ideal voltage
operation such as short-circuit faults. For instance,
source. Fig.lb illustrates a vector diagram when the grid
switching off large loads and switching on capacitor
voltage up has a voltage dip with a phase angle jump.
banks may cause voltage swelVovervoltage at the grid
From Fig.lb, it is clear that the active power is drawn
voltage. In the standard IEEE-I 159-1995, the definition
from the SSC to the load. Fig.lc shows a more detailed
of voltage swell is quoted: A voltage swell is an increase
single-phase model of a distribution feeder with an SSC,
in the RMS voltage above 1. I pu at the power frequency
where the grid voltage us, the SSC voltage uml and the
for duration from 0.5 cycle to I minute. Swells and
load voltage uL are in series. From Fig.] the load voltage
overvoltages can cause overheating, tripping or even
destruction of industrial equipment such as motor drives vector is expressed as gL = 9, +g,nl. Here it is to be
and control relays. Many power quality surveys have noted that small-case letters denote time variables and
been made in order to check the load immunity against capital letters denote phasors. For simplicity, only details
power system disturbances [2, 31. From those surveys, it of a single-phase of the SSC are depicted in Fig.1~.The
can be stated that the voltage swells are experienced in main components of the SSC are: 1) voltage source
the power systems locally or remotely. The number of converter (VSC), 2) energy storage, 3) output LC-filter,
voltage swell events per year is naturally random but 4) injection transformer and 5) bypass switch (thy). As
from the statistics presented in [2] it can be concluded shown in Fig.lc, the LC-filters consists of a series
that not less than 165 eventdyear have been recorded. inductor with an inductance LF and a resistance RF and a
The duration of the recorded swells varies from one shunt capacitor with a capacitance CF.
fundamental cycle to 8 hours. The static series
compensator (SSC) is a power electronic apparatus that
has been used for the mitigation of voltage dips [4,5].
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+r
U = AC- ~ ( R L +LYLF)+!,(RLT
- F + LYLT)} (4)
where:
Resistance of the injection transformer, Fig. 1.Measured signals for applying double vector wntrol of SSC.
RT:
XLT: Leakage reactance of the injection transformer, RFS~LF R T , XLT
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V. EXPERIMENTAL
VERIFICATION
Appendix A provides the specifications for the DSP
controlled IO kV SSC platform used for this work. This
experimental setup has been built at the Institute of
Enerm Technolow. Aalbore University. Denmark 181.
(d) (d)
Fig.9. Simulated unbalanced 10 % Fig.10. Simulated balanced 50 %
20 %, 30 % voltage swell: a) grid swell: with resistive load: a) grid
voltage, b) injected voltage, c) load voltage, b) injected voltage, c)
voltage, d) dc-voltage. load voltage, d) dc-voltage.
%- The medium voltage prototype SSC was fed with a
programmable California Instruments Power Supply at
380 V, which was then fed into a distribution transformer
to create the IO kV line voltage. Three specially made 67
kVA 0.29 kV/2.9 kV single-phase series injection
transformers are used to series connect the SSCis 200
kVA low voltage inverter to the system. The load voltage
was stepped down using another distribution transformer
to allow low voltage linear and non-linear loads tn be
utilized. The dc-bus of the inverter is charged to 600 V
using a unidirectional dc supply, which provided 4680 J
of energy in the 26 mF of dc capacitors for transient use
in the SSC sag ride-through capabilities An Analog
Devices AD21062 floating-point Sharc DSP was used to
implement the DVC with the PWM signal generation for
the six IGBT phase-legs created using a Siemens SAB
8OC167 Micro Controller. The medium voltage supply
and load voltages required by the controller were
Fig.7. Simulated balanced 10 % Fig. 8. Simulated balanced 20 % measured with ABB resistive voltage transducers. The
voltage swell with resistive load: voltage swell with resistive load
a) grid voltage, b) injected a) grid voltage, b) injected
injected voltage is measured by LV 25-P/SP2 voltage
voltage, c) load voltage, d) dc- voltage, c) load voltage, d) dc- transducer. The grid current at low voltage side of the
voltage voltage. transformer is measured by LT 2OO-S/SP44 LEM current
transducer. During the experiments, the ESC was fed by a
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VIII. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS [9] Danfoss Design Guide for Frequency Conveners VLT 5000,
w.Danfoss.com, November 26,2003.
The authors would like to thank Hans Nilesen for his help!
with the experimental setup at Aalborg University,
Denmark. Thanks go to Massimo Bongiorno for APPENDIX A: SYSTEM DATAFOR TEST SETUP
providing the data of the SSC he builds at Chalmers TABLE. 11. SYSXMPARAMETERS OF SSC.
Universitv. Sweden. I ri. nnnv
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