Passive reactor compensated cascaded H-bridge multilevel LC-StatCom

Title: Passive reactor compensated cascaded H-bridge multilevel LC-StatCom
Creator: Farivar, Glen; Townsend, Christopher David; Hredzak, Branislav; Pou, Josep; Agelidis, Vassilios G.
Relation: IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics Vol. 32, Issue 11, p. 8338-8348
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TPEL.2016.2641043
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2017
Description: The cascaded H-bridge (CHB) low-capacitance StatCom (LC-StatCom) has a limited operating area in the inductive region compared to a conventional StatCom's V-I characteristic. This limitation for operation in the inductive region is considered to be the biggest disadvantage of CHB LC-StatCom. In this paper, the effect of adding parallel and series reactors on the LC-StatCom system's V-I characteristic is analyzed. Then, a new configuration, which fully compensates for the lost operating area of the LC-StatCom, is introduced. A scaled down single-phase seven-level laboratory prototype is used to confirm practicability of the proposed system.
Subject: cascaded H-bridge; low capacitance; reactive power compensation; thin dc capacitor
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1396043
Identifier: uon:33982
Identifier: ISSN:0885-8993
Language: eng
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