Control Design for Electronic Voltage Stabilizer

Abstract

Vietnam's electrical infrastructure has undergone notable advancements in recent times. Nevertheless, concerns pertaining to under-voltage, over-voltage, and voltage fluctuations persist in rural, mountainous, and industrial regions. This results in the inefficient operation of electrical equipment, disruptions in industrial production processes, data loss, and equipment damage. This paper puts forth a novel control design methodology for electronic voltage stabilizers, with the objective of mitigating the detrimental effects of grid voltage fluctuations on electrical apparatus. A compact and cost-effective AC-AC converter is proposed as a means of regulating the compensation voltage. The paper puts forth the use of the state-space averaging method for system modeling and proposes the combination of feedback and feed-forward controllers to achieve high accuracy and rapid response times. Furthermore, the moving average method is proposed for measuring the Root Mean Square (RMS) voltage, which significantly enhances the control response speed and accuracy. A 10 kVA single-phase electronic voltage stabilizer was constructed and tested in a laboratory setting under a range of grid voltage conditions, from 150V to 290V, and with varying loads. The results demonstrate that the electronic voltage stabilizer is effective in maintaining the load voltage within the desired range. The maximum response time recorded was found to be half a cycle of the grid voltage in the simulation and one cycle in the experiments, which is a significantly faster response time than that of similar designs. Furthermore, the low total harmonic distortion provides additional confirmation of the effectiveness of the designed electronic voltage stabilizer.