POWER ELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS IN POWER SYSTEMS
Fundamentals of ac power transmission, transmission problems and needs, emergence of FACTS-FACTS control considerations, FACTS controllers.
Principles of shunt compensation – Variable Impedance type & switching converter type- Static Synchronous Compensator (STATCOM) configuration, characteristics and control.
Principles of static series compensation using GCSC, TCSC and TSSC, applications, Static Synchronous Series Compensator (SSSC).
Principles of operation-Steady state model and characteristics of a static voltage regulators and phase shifters- power circuit configurations.
UPFC -Principles of operation and characteristics, independent active and reactive power flow control, comparison of UPFC with the controlled series compensators and phase shifters.
Song, Y.H. and Allan T. Johns,‘Flexible ac transmission systems (FACTS)’, Institution of Electrical Engineers Press, London, 1999.
2. Hingorani ,L.Gyugyi ‘Concepts and Technology of flexible ac transmission system’, IEEE Press New York, 2000 ISBN –078033 4588.
3. IEE Tutorials on ‘Flexible ac transmission systems’ published in Power Engineering Journal, IEE Press, 1995.
