FACTS Controllers in Electric Power Systems and Effects of STATCOM Controller

Mehmet ÇINAR

Abstract


In recent years, rapid developments in industry and industry have increased the demand for electricity. In order to meet these increasing demands, new transmission networks must be established; or to reduce losses in existing networks and to increase the active power delivered. Reactive power compensation is used to increase the efficiency of existing networks. With the help of the reactive power compensation, the transmitted power is increased, line losses are reduced and the amplitude of the voltage at the end of the line is stabilized. Especially with the help of developing semiconductor technologies, control of the energy system has created an efficient, fast and reliable technology known as FACTS (Flexible AC Transmission Systems). FACTS devices provide reactive power compensation, phase angle control, current and voltage control in AC transmission systems. FACTS devices are more powerful than mechanical controllers because they are power electronics based. Until now, many power flow controllers have been proposed under the name of FACTS. The latest developed FACTS controllers are converter based controllers that operate according to the principle of synchronous voltage supply. The most commonly used are STATCOM, static synchronous serial compensator (SSSC), static compensator (SVC) and combined power flow controller (UPFC).


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Compensation, FACTS, STATCOM

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.52155/ijpsat.v24.1.2480

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