access icon free Circulating current derivation and comprehensive compensation of cascaded STATCOM under asymmetrical voltage conditions

Cascaded static synchronous compensator (STATCOM) with delta-connected configuration is an effective solution to compensate reactive and negative-sequence currents. This study focuses on the circulating current and compensation method of delta-connected STATCOM under asymmetrical voltage conditions. According to the phasor analysis, constrains of voltage phasors and current phasors under reactive current compensation mode, negative-sequence current compensation mode and comprehensive compensation mode are deduced. On the basis of this, the analytical expressions of circulating current under the three modes are derived. Furthermore, a comprehensive compensation method for delta-connected STATCOM is proposed. In the proposed method, phase current references are calculated directly with the instantaneous voltage and current signals, which could enhance the dynamic behaviour and cluster-balancing control performance especially under asymmetrical voltage conditions. Finally, simulation and experiment results have been given to verify the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed control method.

Inspec keywords: static VAr compensators

Other keywords: phasor analysis; dynamic behaviour enhancement; circulating current derivation and comprehensive compensation method; delta-connected STATCOM configuration; cluster-balancing control performance; negative-sequence current compensation; reactive current compensation; current phasor; voltage phasor; cascaded STATCOM configuration; asymmetrical voltage conditions; static synchronous compensator

Subjects: Other power apparatus and electric machines

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