IJSRP, Volume 4, Issue 5, May 2014 Edition [ISSN 2250-3153]
P.Sudheer, K.R Siva Prasad
Abstract:
Voltage control and fast reactive power compensation are two main application area of Static Synchronous Compensator (STATCOM), which is a shunt connected voltage source converter (VSC) based FACTs controller using power semiconductor devices (particularly IGBT, GTO etc.).However, the total Statcom circuitry has complex and coupled system dynamics which require advanced controllers to achieve well performance. In our paper, we have represented a sixty pulse VSC for producing higher pulse number by combining a twelve pulse converter with a five level VSI in order to obtain the overall performance of the said VSC in a three phase system.