• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.197-208
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• 2010

Unified power flow controller (UPFC) is the most reliable device in the FACTS concept. It has the ability to adjust all three control parameters effective in power flow and voltage stability. In this paper, a linearized model of a power system installed with a UPFC has been presented. UPFC has four control loops that by adding an extra signal to one of them, increases dynamic stability and load angle oscillations are damped. In this paper, after open loop eigenvalue (electro mechanical mode) calculations, state-space equations have been used to design damping controller and it has been considered to influence active and reactive power flow durations as the input of damping controller, in addition to the common speed duration of synchronous generators as input damper signal. To increase stability, further Lead-Lag and LQR controllers, a novel on-line adaptive controller has been used analytically to identify power system parameters. Closed-loop calculations of the electro mechanical mode verify the improvement of system pole placement after controller designing. Suitable operation of adaptive controller to decrease rotor speed oscillations against input mechanical torque disturbances is confirmed by the simulation results.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.60 no.5
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• pp.921-928
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• 2011

This paper presents a new method of local voltage control to achieve coordinative control among UPFC(Unified Power Flow Controller) and conventional reactive compensation equipments, such as switched-shunt and ULTC(Under-Load Tap Changing) transformer. Reactive power control has various difficult aspects to control because of difficulty of system analysis. Recently, the progress of power electronics technologies has lead to commercial availability of several FACTS(Flexible AC Transmission System) devices. The UPFC(Unified Power Flow Controller) simultaneously allows the independent control of active and reactive power flows as well as control of the voltage profile. When conventional reactive power sources and UPFC are used to control system voltage, the UPFC reacts to the voltage deviation faster than the conventional reactive power sources. Keeping reactive power reserve in an UPFC during steady-state operation is always needed to provide reactive power requirements during emergencies. Therefore, coordination control among UPFC and conventional reactive power sources is needed. This paper describe the method to keep or control the voltage of power system of local area and to manege reactive power reserve using PSS/E with Python. The result of simulation shows that the proposed method can control the local bus voltage within the given voltage limit and manege reactive power reserve.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1997.07c
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• pp.1124-1126
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• 1997

The Unified Power Flow Controller(UPFC) with a series inverter and a shunt inverter ia able to control all three line Parameters(voltage, impedance and phase angle) and so UPFC technology has the potential to enhance the implementation and broad application of the FACTS concept with improved Performance. In this Paper, the UPFC is applied in order to improve the power flow oscillation damping. The modal performance measure is minimized in order to determine the optimal parameters of UPFC controller for damping Power flow oscillations. The dynamics of the injected voltage of UPFC is represented as a first order delay element. The UPFC controller used here is of the PIO type and the input signal to the controller is the active power flow through the UPFC. The effect of UPFC application to the Power system are analyzed from the stand point of power system oscillation damping.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2001.07a
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• pp.220-222
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• 2001

This paper represents impedance calculation of the distance relay using PSCAD/EMTDC software for transmission line involving the UPFC (Unified Power Flow Controller) device, which is the most vigorous component of FACTS. The presence of the UPFC significantly affects the line parameters of transmission system, which are also influenced by the distance relay setting. Moreover depending on the UPFC location and its parameters, zones of setting the distance relay will be changed. The presence of the UPFC in the fault loop affects both voltage and current seen by relay. Therefore, the distance relay should be taken into account the variable injected voltage of the UPFC.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.1057-1062
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• 2016

• Journal of international Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.135-142
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• 2012

In this paper, optimal selection of the unified power flow controller (UPFC) damping controller parameters in order to improve the power system dynamic response and its stability based on two modified intelligent algorithms have been proposed. These algorithms are based on a modified intelligent particle swarm optimization (PSO) and continuous genetic algorithm (GA). After extraction of UPFC dynamic model, intelligent PSO and genetic algorithms are used to select the effective feedback signal of the damping controller; then, to compare the performance of the proposed UPFC controller in damping the critical modes of a single-machine infinite-bus (SMIB) power system, the simulation results are presented. The comparison shows the good performance of both presented PSO and genetic algorithms in an optimal selection of UPFC damping controller parameters and damping oscillations.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.389-391
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• 2005

This paper describes experimental analysis of UPFC, which is composed of cascaded H-bridge modules and single-phase multi-winding transformers for isolation. The operational characteristic was analyzed through experimental works with a scaled model, and simulation results with PSCAD/EMTDC. The UPFC proposed In this paper can be directly connected to the transmission line without series injection transformers. It has flexibility to expand the operation voltage by increasing the number of H-bridge modules. The analysis results can be utilized to design the actual UPFC system applicable for the transmission system.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.100-105
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• 2002

This paper represents impedance calculation of the distance relay using PSCAD/EMTDC software for transmission line involving the UPFC(Unified Power Flow Controller)device, which is the most vigorous component of FACTS. The presence of the UPFC significantly affects the line parameters of transmission system, which are also influenced by the distance relay setting. Moreover, depending on the UPFC location and its parameters, zones of setting the distance relay will be changed. The presence of the UPFC in the fault loop affects both voltage and current seen by relay. Therefore, the distance relay should be taken into account the variable injected voltage of the UPFC.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers P
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• v.51 no.4
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• pp.211-218
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• 2002

We propose a intelligent controller for FACTS device to stabilize a power system. In order to identify the nonlinear characteristics of the power system and to estimate a control signal, an artificial neural network is utilized. Parameter and location of Unified Power Flow Controller(UPFC) on power system operating conditions are discussed. A UPFC is composed of an excitation transformer, a boosting, two three-phase GTO based voltage source converters, and a dc link capacitor. The proposed controller is applied to UPFC to verified the effectiveness of the proposed control system. The results show that the proposed nonlinear FACTS controller is able to enhance the transient stability of a three machine and nine bus system.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.162-165
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• 2001

본 논문은 EMTDC/PSCAD 프로그램을 이용한 80MVA UPFC(Unified Power Flow Controller)해석모델 개발과 2003년 실계통 적용시 적용효과에 대하여 기술하였다. UPFC는 90년대 이후 개발되고 있는 유연송전 시스템(FACTS : Flexible AC Transmission System)기기중 전압. 임피던스, 위상각등 송전선로에서의 전력조류제어를 위한 모든 파라미터를 동시에 고속으로 제어 할 수 있는 대표적인 FACTS 기기이며, 국내에도 2003년 강진 S/S에 80MVA 용량의 UPFC가 적용될 예정이다. 그러나 실 계통에서의 FACTS기기 적용을 위해서는 다양한 적용 효과분석 및 충분한 신뢰도 테스트가 선행되어야 한다. 따라서 이를 위한 기기 해석모델 개발은 매우 중요하다고 할 수 있다. 본 논문은 국내 전력 계통에 최초 적용되는 80MVA UPFC Pilot Plant에 대한 EMTDC/PSCAD 해석모델 개발결과에 대하여 기술하였다. EMTDC/PSCAD는 EMTP와 더불어 전력시스템의 과도현상 해석을 위한 신뢰성있는 프로그램이다.