A New Voltage Control Strategy to Improve Performance of DSTATCOM in Electric Grid

Abstract

A new voltage control strategy of distribution static compensator (DSTATCOM) has been proposed in this paper for electric grid applications. The proposed control scheme combines two methods of DSTATCOM operation to improve its performance. Considering power factor and voltage magnitude as degree of freedom, the DSTATCOM provides features such as mitigation of voltage and current harmonics, balancing of source currents, improvement of power factor, voltage regulation during voltage sag and swell, reduction in inverter losses, and control of load power to achieve energy conservation. The performance of proposed DSTATCOM control is better as compared to its conventional operation at any time of operation. PSCAD simulation and experimental results validate the performances.