ENHANCEMENT OF POWER

QUALITY IN DISTRIBUTION
SYSTEM USING D-STATCOM

Prepared By
Desai Keyur H (110503109003)
Patel Axay H (110503109011)
 Power Quality is a term used to broadly encompass the entire scope of
interaction among electrical suppliers, the environment, the system sand
products energized, and the users of those system sand products.
 It is more than the delivery of "clean“ electric power that complies with
industry standards.
 It involves them a attainability of that power, the design, selection, and
the installation of every piece of hard ware and software in the electrical
energy system.
 Stretching from the generation plant to the utility customer, power
quality is a measure of how the elements affect the system as a whole.
THE COMMON POWER QUALITY
PROBLEMS
voltage sags

 harmonic distortion

 low power factor

 Voltage sags are one of the most occurring power quality problems.

 For an industry voltage sags occur more often and cause severe problems and
economical losses.
 Utilities often focus on disturbances from end-user equipment as the main power
quality problems.
 It is often set only two parameters depth/magnitude and duration. The magnitude
is ranged from 10% to 90% nominal voltage and with duration from half cycle
to 1min.
 Voltage sag is caused by a fault in the utility system, a fault within the
customer’s facility or a large increase of the load current, like
starting a motor or transformer energizing.
 Total Harmonic Distortion, or THD is an amplifier or pre-amplifier
specification that compares the output signal of the amplifier with the
input signal and measures the level differences in harmonic
frequencies between the two. The difference is called total harmonic
distortion.
 Harmonic currents in distribution system can cause harmonic distortion,
low power factor and additional losses as well as heating in the electrical
equipment.
 It also can cause vibration and noise in machines and malfunction of the
sensitive equipment.
 There are different ways to enhance power quality problems in
transmission and distribution systems
There are two approaches to the mitigation of power quality problems.
1. load conditioning 2. line-conditioning

Passive filters have been most commonly used to limit the flow of
harmonic currents in distribution systems.

The performances of Conventional method (LC filter) is not

satisfactory due to the drawbacks

Among the different new technical options available to improve power

quality, D-STATCOM have proved to be an important and flexible
alternative to compensate for current and voltage disturbances in power
distribution systems.
D-STATCOM

•Methodology

results and causes

Conclusion
 KEY WORDS

• D-STATCOM

• Methodology

• results and causes

• Conclusion
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Simple line presentation of generating distribution network

 VOLTAGE SOURCE CONVERTER

 CONTROLLER

 ENERGY STORAGE CIRCUIT

 LCL PASSSIVE FILTER

 STATCOM is a managing system used on ac power indication system.
 It is based on energy gadgets present resource inverter and can act as
either a resource or mess up of sensitive ac energy to power system.
 If linked with a power resource. It can also provide effective ac energy.
 It is participant of the FACTS family.
 STATCOM is set up to back up power systems that have a bad energy
aspect and often inadequate present control.
 Its most common use is for present balance.
 A dc energy storage device, a coupling transformer
connected in shunt to the distribution network through a
coupling transformer.
 The VSC converts the dc voltage across the storage device
into a set of three-phase ac output voltages.
 These voltages are in phase and coupled with the ac
system through the reactance of the coupling transformer.
 Suitable adjustment of the phase and magnitude of the D-
STATCOM output voltages allows effective control of
active and reactive power exchanges between the D-
STATCOM and the ac system.
 Such configuration allows the device to absorb or
generate controllable active and reactive power.
 The VSC connected in shunt with the ac system provides
a multifunctional topology which can be used for up to
three quite distinct purposes:
 1. Voltage regulation and compensation of reactive power.
 2. Correction of power factor and
 3. Elimination of current harmonics.

 output current will correct the voltage sags by adjusting

the voltage drop across the system impedance
 A voltage-source converter is a power electronic device that connected
in shunt or parallel to the system.
 It can generate a sinusoidal voltage with any required magnitude,
frequency and phase angle.
 The VSC used to either completely replace the voltage or to inject the
‘missing voltage’.
 The ‘missing voltage’ is the difference between the nominal voltage and
the actual.
 Suitable adjustment of the phase and magnitude of the D-STATCOM
output voltages allows effectives control of active and reactive power
exchanges between D-STATCOM and AC system.
 In addition, the converter is normally based on some kind of energy
storage, which will supply the converter with a DC voltage
 DC source is connected in parallel with the DC capacitor. It carries the
input ripple current of the converter and it is the main reactive energy
storage element. This DC capacitor could be charged by a battery source
or could be recharged by the converter itself.
TEST SYSTEM

SIMULINK MODEL FOR THE TEST SYSTEM

Single line diagram of the test system
SIMULINK MODEL OF TEST SYSTEM
 Without insertion of D-STATCOM

 With insertion of D-STATCOM

 D-STATCOM without LCL Passive Filter

 D-STATCOM with LCL Passive Filter

Three phase to ground fault

 Double line to ground fault

 Single line to ground fault

 Line to line fault

 Without insertion of D-STATCOM

TPG DPG
a) voltage at load point is 0.6600 p.u b) voltage at load point is 0.7070 p.u
 Without insertion of D-STATCOM

LL SLG
C) voltage at load point is 0.7487 p.u D) voltage at load point is 0.8259 p.u
 With insertion of D-STATCOM

TPG DLG
(a).voltage at load point is 0.9367 p.u (b).voltage at load point is 0.9800 p.u
With insertion of D-STATCOM

LL LG
c).voltage at load point is 1.068 p.u d).voltage at load point is 0.9837 p.u
Harmonic spectrum of distortion output current without LCL Passive Filter
Harmonic spectrum of output current with LCL Passive Filter
 The simulation results show that the voltage sags can be mitigate by
inserting D-STATCOM to the distribution system.
 By adding LCL Passive filter to D-STATCOM, The power factors also
increase close to unity.
 Thus, it can be concluded that by adding D-STATCOM with LCL filter
the power quality is improved.