Application Of UPFC For

Power Flow Control & Voltage

Profile Improvement

Under The Guidance and Supervision Of

(DR. SUSHIL CHAUHAN)

Presented By :
Mohit Pancholi (14265)
Harsh Raj Dixit (14256)
Vineet Chaudhary(14251)
Supriya Negi (14264)
CONTENTS

 Introduction To UPFC (Unified Power Flow Controller)

 Objectives

 Basic Model Of UPFC

 Working Principle

 Comparative Study Between SVC, STATCOM & UPFC

 Conclusion

 Future Scope

 References
INTRODUCTION TO UPFC

 UPFC is the member of FACTS devices that has emerged for the
control and optimization of power flow.

 UPFC uses solid state devices.

 UPFC is a combination of STATCOM(shunt) and SSSC(series)

coupled to common voltage DC link.

 It was invented for real time control and dynamic compensation of

AC transmission system.

 UPFC is generalized synchronous voltage source(SVS).

 UPFC can control simultaneously or selectively voltage,

impedance, phase angle in transmission line and hence it is called
unified.
OBJECTIVES
 To have Real-Time Control and dynamic compensation of AC
transmission system.

 To control all the parameters that affect the power flow(V, ,X) of a
transmission line either simultaneously and selectively.

 To inject voltage at any phase angle.

 To independently control real power without altering reactive power.

 To control power flow as directed.

 To achieve continuous voltage regulation with variable in-phase and

anti-phase voltage injection.

 To control reactive power by injecting series voltage in quadrature

with line current.

 To achieve phase angle regulation without changing the magnitude of

line voltage.
BASIC MODEL OF UPFC

Source :FACTS Controllers In Power Transmission

And Distribution By K.R. Padiyar
WORKING PRINCIPLE OF UPFC
 Two VSC are connected back-to-back operated from a common DC
link provided by storage capacitor(ac to ac converter).
 Common DC link facilitates Real power flow in either direction
between AC terminals of two converter.
 Each converter can independently generate/absorbe reactive
power at its ac terminal.
 Series connected converter injects voltage in series with the line
with controllable magnitude and phase angle, thus exchanging
real and reactive power.
 Series connected converter, converts demand/excess of real power
of transmission line to common DC bus as supply/absorbe of real
power, reactive power flow through DC link of UPFC is zero.
 The shunt connected converter supply or absorbe the real power
demanded by series converter at the dc link.
 The demand at DC link is concerted to ac by the shunt converter
and fed back to the line via shunt connected transformer.
 Reactive power is generated or absorbed by the series connected
converter locally and meets the transmission line demand and
need not to be transmitted.
 Thus active power is supplied without change of reactive power
flow.
Simulink Model Of UPFC
COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN
SSSC, STATCOM AND UPFC

Source : Power system stability improvement by FACTS devices; a comparative study

between STATCOM, SSSC and UPFC by G. Shahgholian, A. Movahedi (IEEE , 2012)
Source : Power system stability improvement by FACTS devices; a comparative study
between STATCOM, SSSC and UPFC by G. Shahgholian, A. Movahedi (IEEE , 2012)
Source : Power system stability improvement by FACTS devices; a comparative study
between STATCOM, SSSC and UPFC by G. Shahgholian, A. Movahedi (IEEE , 2012)
Waveform Of SVC when subjected to 3 phase fault
Waveform Of STATCOM
CONCLUSIONS

 Simulink model for complete UPFC is developed which

includes series controller, shunt controller and DC bus voltage
controller.
 Series transformer impedance, transmission line charging and
source impedance are considered in the simulation.
 It has been found that the UPFC controller has good
regulating properties.
 The objective of the study was to reach an efficient control of
an electrical power system under several voltage variations.
 The controller tracks the active and reactive power settings
very quickly with limited overshoot.
 The controller also regulates the ac bus and DC link voltage
very quickly with very small settling time.
 All the above aspects show the effectiveness of these devices
too suppress oscillations and stabilizing the power system
FUTURE SCOPE
 The present work can be extended to power system with
generalized IPFC and HPFC.
 This work has covered power quality in 5 bus system but would be
desirable to extend the proposed approach for larger and more
realistic systems.
 The simulation can be done using PSCAD and PSIM.
 The present work can be extended for damping of torsional
oscillations.
 Closed loop system using Neural Network or genetic algorithm
can be studied in future.
 Stability issues for a distribution network with different type of
DG sources could be examined and FACTS based controllers could
be designed for improving the stability in presence of different
types of distributed generations.
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