• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.131-140
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• 2008

This paper presents a new control approach of DSTATCOM (distribution static compensator) for compensation of reactive power, unbalanced loading and harmonic currents under unbalanced non-sinusoidal ac mains. The control of DSTATCOM is achieved using Adaline based current estimator based on LMS algorithm to maintain source currents real and undistorted. The dc bus voltage of voltage source converter (VSC) working as DSTATCOM is maintained at constant voltage using a proportional-integral (PI) controller. The DSTATCOM system alongwith proposed control scheme is modeled in MATLAB to simulate the behavior of the system. The practical implementation of the DSTATCOM is carried out using dSPACE DS1104 R&D controller having TMS320F240 as a slave DSP. Simulated and implementation results are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the DSTATCOM with Adaline based control to meet the severe load perturbations with different types of loads (linear and non-linear) under distorted and unbalanced AC mains.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.259-267
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• 2008

Power quality improvement in a three-phase four-wire system is achieved using a new topology of DSTATCOM (distribution static compensator) consisting of a star/delta transformer with a tertiary winding and a three-leg VSC (voltage source converter). This new topology of DSTATCOM is proposed for power factor correction or voltage regulation along with harmonic elimination, load balancing and neutral current compensation. A tertiary winding is introduced in each phase for a delta connected secondary in addition to the star-star windings and this delta connected winding is responsible for neutral current compensation. The dynamic performance of the proposed DSTATCOM system is demonstrated using MATLAB with its Simulink and Power System Blockset (PSB) toolboxes under varying loads. The capacitor supported DC bus of the DSTATCOM is regulated to the reference voltage under varying loads.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.329-334
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• 2005

The DSTATCOM(Distribution Static Synchronous Compensator) is one of the Custom Power Devices that can regulate voltage. The DSTATCOM operates as a shunt connected static var compensator whose capacitive or inductive output current can be controlled independent of the system voltage. The magnitude of the compensated voltage is limited by characteristics of the system and the load. Compensation capability of the DSTATCOM which can inject 1 MVAR reactive power was simulated by EMTDC under several conditions. This paper analyzes the effect of the DSTATCOM's compensation considering the length and kind of distribution line, the power factor and magnitude of the load, and the duration and magnitude of the voltage variation.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.5 no.2 s.9
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• pp.146-152
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• 2001

Two control techniques - PI and LQR(Linear Quadratic Regulator) - of DSTATCOM (Distribution Static Synchronous Compensator) for line voltage regulation in distribution system are presented. It is shown that the voltage waveform is improved if the proposed methods are applied in IEEE 13 radial distribution system using PSCAD/EMTDC package in case of single line-to-ground fault. The three cases - without control, with PI control and with LQR control - are compared. The LQR control is shown to be best in respect of response profile and control effort required among them.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.58 no.7
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• pp.1342-1348
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• 2009

DSTATCOM(distribution static compensator) is one of the custom power devices, and protects a distribution line from unbalanced and harmonic current caused by non-linear and unbalanced loads. Researches about DSTATCOM are mainly divided two parts, one is the calculation of compensated current and the other part is the current control. This paper proposes a proportional-resonant-repetitive current controller. Improved performance of instantaneous power compensation has been shown by simulations and experiments.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2001.11b
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• pp.320-322
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 전압 sag보상을 하기 위한 DSTATCOM 제어기를 설계하고 EMTDC/PSCAD로 확인하였다. DSTATCOM의 전류성분을 d,q분해 해석을 통하여 상태방정식을 유도하고 부하모델과 네트워크의 제약조건을 결합 모델을 제시하였다. 1선 지락 사고시 PI 제어시보다 LQR 제어의 응답 특성이 우수함을 검증하고 전압 sag가 개선됨을 보였다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2001.07a
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• pp.81-83
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 EMTDC/PSCAD 패키지를 이용하여 배전용 정지형보상기(DSTATCOM)의 모델을 제안하였고, 이를 비선형 부하를 가지는 배전계통의 전력품질 향상을 위해 "직접" 출력전압 제어 기술을 적용하였다. 1선 지락 사고시에 본 논문에서 제시한 방법을 이용한 시뮬레이션을 통해 전압 파형이 개선되고, 고조파가 감소되며, 선로 전압 조정을 할 수 있음을 보였다.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.302-304
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• 2007

본 논문은 3상 3선식 계통의 불평형 선형부하에서 p-q 이론을 이용한 DSTATCOM의 개선된 전류 지령 방법을 제시한다. 전역 통과 필터를 이용하여 부하측 유효전력의 교류성분을 추출하는 것이 기존의 저역 통과 필터를 응용한 것보다 개선된 전류 지령을 만들 수 있음을 보인다. 가상 실험 (Matlab/Simulink)을 통해 제안한 전원 전류 보상 방법의 타당성을 검증한다.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.830-840
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• 2015

The H-bridge inverter is the fundamental power cell of the cascaded distribution static synchronous compensator (DSTATCOM). Thus, cell reliability is important to the compensation performance and stability of the overall system. The concept of the power electronics building block (PEBB) is an ideal solution for the power cell design. In this paper, an H-bridge inverter-based “plug and play” HPEBB is introduced into the main circuit and the controller to improve the compensation performance and reliability of the device. The section that discusses the main circuit primarily emphasizes the design of electrical parameters, physical structure, and thermal dissipation. The section that presents the controller part focuses on the principle of complex programmable logic device -based universal controller This section also analyzes typical reliability and anti-interference issues. The function and reliability of HPEBB are verified by experiments that are conducted on an HPEBB test-bed and on a 10 kV/± 10 Mvar DSTATCOM industrial prototype.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.68-74
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• 2004

This paper presents the design of DSTATCOM (Distribution Static Synchronous Compensator) controller. The results are verified by using PSCAD/EMTDC package. The state equation derived by decomposition analysis of DSTATCOM current component is applied to load model and the combined model which considered constraint condition. In case of single line to ground fault, the conventional method of Pl control is compared with LQR control technique. LQR control is shown to be superior in terms of response profile and composition of voltage sag.