REACTIVE POWER CONTROLS & FACTS MEPS-201

REACTIVE POWER  CONTROL & FACTS MEPS – 201

UNIT I 
Description and definition of:Introduction to FACTS:Basic Types of ccontrollers –Benefits from FACTS technology- Static Var Compensator (SVC):Principle of operation,configuration and control.Thyristor Controlled Series compensator (TCSC):Principle of operation, configuration and control,Application for damping electromechanical Oscillations, Application for mitigation of SSR. Static Compensator (STATCOM): Principle of operation, configuration

and control. Static Synchronous Series Compensator (SSSC): Principle of operation, configuration and control. Thyristor Controlled Phase Angle Regulator (TCPAR): Principle of operation, configuration and control, Unified Power Flow Controller (UPFC): Principle of operation, configuration and control, Simulation of UPFC, Steady state model of UPFC.Interline Power Flow Controller (IPFC): Principle of operation, configuration and control.

UNIT II

Oscillation Stability Analysis and Control:Introduction Linearised model of power systems installed with FACTS based Stabilisers – Heffron-Phillips model of a SMIB system installed with SVC, TCSC and TCPS – Heffron-Phillips model of a SMIB system with UPFC – Heffron-Phillips model of a Multi-machine system installed with SVC, TCSC and TCP

UNIT III

Analysis and Design of FACTS based stabilisers:Analysis of damping torque contribution by FACTS based stabilisers installed in SMIB systems, Design of robust FACTS based stabilisers installed in SMIB systems by phase compensation method. Selection of installing locations and feed back signal for FACTS based stabilizers

UNIT IV

Transient Stability control with FACTS:Introduction –Analysis of Power systems  installed with FACTS devices: Power transmission control using Controllable Series Compensation(CSC), Power Transmission Control using SSSC, PowerTransmission Control using UPFC, Power Transmission Control using Phase Shifting Transformer(PST), Power Transmission Control using UPFC, Control of FACTS devices for transient stability improvement – General considerations of FACTS control strategy: CSC,SSSC, SVC, STATCOM and UPFC control strategy – General Structure of the FACTS devices control.
 

REFERENCE BOOKS:-

• Reactive Power Control in Power Systems, T J E Miller John Wiley.

• Computer modeling of Electrical Power Systems, J Arriliga, N R Watson, Wiley

• Understanding FACTS’ N G Hingorani and L Gyugyi, IEEE Press.

• Flexible ac Transmission Systems (FACTS), Y.H. Song, A.T.Johns,IEEE P.