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consists of a large number of different static and dynamic devices. Transient Program) and EMTP96 (Electro-magnetic
To increase the loading of existing AC transmission systems, Transients Program)[10-13]. Moreover, the TSC has been
problems of voltage flicker and voltage stability has become investigated at enclosure of Static VAr Compensator in many
important subjects in power systems. Better utilization of existing studies ,
power system capacities by installing new devices such as Flexible
In this paper, the effect of the thyristor switched capacitor to
AC Transmission Systems (FACTS) has become very important.
In this paper, effects of Thyristor Switched Capacitor (TSC), load voltages has been studied in the three phase system at
which is one of the shunt FACTS devices, on load voltages are different load conditions. The studied power system is a two-
studied. The modeling and simulation of TSC are verified using bus system with long transmission line model. The design and
the Matlab7.04.The model consists of two-bus system with static testing of TSC are verified using the MATLAB/Simulink
and dynamic loads. The results shows that major development on 7.04® and Power Systems Toolbox[14-19].
reactive power compensation and bus voltage regulation can be
achieved by using the TSC.
II. PRINCIPLES OF THE THYRISTOR SWITCHED CAPACITOR
Index Terms—Flexible AC Transmission Systems, Thyristor Thyristor Switched Capacitors are shunt compensators that
Switched Capacitors, Compensation, Voltage Regulation, can supply reactive power. The TSCs have following
MATLAB. properties: cheaper devices achieving appropriate results in the
reactive power compensation[20-24], average delay of one
I. INTRODUCTION half a cycle and no generation of harmonics .
The power systems growth and the increase in their The Fig. 1 illustrates an equivalent circuit of the TSC.
complexity, many factors have become influential to the According to Fig. 1, the TSC consists of two thyristors in anti-
electric power generation and consumption. In recent years, parallel and capacitor to be switched. Furthermore, a series
voltage stability and voltage regulation have received wide inductance is considered as well as a small resistance .The
attention . inductance used here is to limit inrush currents by reason of
The numbers of devices and electrical machines that absorb mis-firing .
reactive energy have been increased with either developments
at technology or rising of wealth level in offices and houses. In
power systems, load models are classified into two categories:
static load and dynamic load models. The static load model is
not dependent on time; therefore, it describes the relation of
the active and reactive powers at any time with the voltage
and/or frequency at the same instant of time.
There are many reactive compensation devices used by the
utilities for voltage stability[1-4], voltage regulation etc., each
Fig. 1. Main structure of TSC
of which has its own characteristics and limitations. However,
the utility aims to achieve this with the most beneficial In the 3-phase applications, the basic TSC elements are
compensation device. Usually, placing adequate reactive connected in delta[25-29].The control technique of the TSC is
power support at the weakest bus enhances the static-voltage On/Off control. The capacitor is precharged to the peak value
stability margins. This can be done with traditional shunt of the source voltage for maintaining with low transients in the
capacitors or Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS) supply system.
controllers .In recent years, thyristor controlled FACTS
devices have been used for reactive power compensation[5-9].
To date, many authors have simulated Thyristor Switched
III.Design and IMPLEMENTATION
Capacitor (TSC), which is one of FACTS devices, using
different computer programs such as NETOMAC (Network A. Modeling of TSC in MATLAB
Torsion Machine Control), MICROCAP that is a SPICE
The TSC has been modeled using the MATLAB/Simulink
compatible software package, PSCAD (Power Systems
7.04® and Power Systems Toolbox. A schematic diagram of a
single phase TSC is in shown Fig. 2. A three phase TSC model
consists of three single phase TSC’s connected in delta
configuration. It is in parallel connected to the load bus.
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360 km
AC Source
Bus 2 380 V TSC
RL
Pulse
Generator Δ
Connected
Static Load
g
a
m
B. Modeling of Loads and Power System in MATLAB The dynamic load model is given in Fig. 4 in
In this study, a two-bus system with a 360 km transmission MATLAB/Simulink. The dynamic load model in Matlab is
line modeled as a π-equivalent circuit is used to show the presented below, as a set of non-linear equations, and active
effect of the TSC on voltage regulation[34-38]. Table I shows power and reactive powers have a non-linear dependency on
parameters of static and dynamic loads, the transmission line the applied voltage.
and the source.
V np 1 T p1s
TABLE I P Po ( ) ( ) (1)
THE LOADS AND SYSTEM PARAMETERS Vo 1 Tp2 s
Source voltage 380 kVrms (LL)
System frequency 50 Hz
V nq 1 Tq1s
Line R 6.5 Ω Q Qo ( ) ( ) (2)
Vo 1 Tq 2 s
Line L 145 mH
Static load P 207.52 MW
where, Vo, Po and Qo are the nominal voltage, active power and
Static load Q 277.09 MVAr
reactive power of the load. Tp and Tq stand for the active and
Dynamic load P 300 MW reactive load recovery time constants, np and nq are the steady
Dynamic load Q 225 MVAr state active and reactive load-voltage dependences .
In this paper, static and dynamic loads have been separately III. SIMULATION RESULTS
analyzed. Fig. 3 demonstrates an equivalent circuit with a
static load model. In this study, the main 380 kV link is A. Voltage Regulation for Static Load
installed between Bus 1 and Bus 2. Also this equivalent In this study, a two-bus system is used to show the
circuit, in which the static load model is replaced with the performance of the TSC device on voltage regulation for the
dynamic load model, is used to show the effect of the dynamic static load. The parameters of the system and the static load
load model on the TSC. are given in Table I. A six-pulse generator is used to control of
firing angle of the TSC.
Firstly, the system without the thyristor switched capacitor
is considered. In this case study, Table II shows obtained
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simulation results and gives the load voltage as rms value, simulations is to show how this application can be maintained
(VLL (kV)); the load current as rms value, (Iload (kA)); total with low transients.
active power of the load as Pload (MW); total reactive power of
the load as Qload (MVAr) and power factor as Cos φ. TABLE III
SIMULATION RESULTS FOR THE SYSTEM WITH TSC
TABLE II
VL1L2 378.75
SIMULATION RESULTS FOR THE SYSTEM WITHOUT TSC
VL1L2 350.08 Vload (kVLL) VL2L3 378.75
Cos φ 0.598 As given in Table III, the load voltage is very close to
nominal value of the source. For a base of 380 kV, the load
It is clearly seen from in Table II that the static load absorbs voltage is increased by using TSC from 0.921 pu to 0.996 pu.
active power of 175.78 MW and reactive power of 235.03 Correspondingly, measured active power of the static load is
MVAr at 0.598 power factor lagging. Required active and very close to nominal value of the static load and measured
reactive powers of the static load are far from nominal values reactive power at Bus 2 is 4.92 MVAr. The reactive power
given in Table I. Therefore the power factor would be desired compensation is made perfectly by using TSC. Hence power
to correct for improving power quality. factor (Cos φ) is considerably closed to 1 and installation of
Fig. 5 illustrates variations of the load voltage and the TSC in the system is caused to improve power factor and
source voltage. It is clearly seen that the load voltage of 350 voltage profile.
kV, which is 0.921 pu for a base of 380 kV, is less than the Figure 6-a and Fig. 6-b demonstrate the source voltage and
source voltage for the static load model. The reactive power the load voltage for TSC with non-precharged capacitor and
compensation should be definitely made for voltage regulation. TSC with precharged capacitor respectively.
475
450
390 Load Source
425
400
350
Source and Load Voltage (kVrms)
375
350
Source and Load Voltage (kVrms)
Load Source
300 325
300
250 275
250
225
200 200
175
150 150
125
100
100 75
50
50 25
0
0 0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2 0.25 0.3 0.35 0.4
0 Time (s)
0 0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2 0.25 0.3 0.35 0.4
Time (s) Fig. 6-a. Source and Load Voltage for the system with TSC
Fig. 5 Source and Load Voltage at 3 ~ System without TSC (Capacitor is not precharged)
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400 3
375
2
350
THDV
Source Load
325
Source and Load Voltage (kVrms)
1
300
0
275
250 -1
225 0 0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2 0.25 0.3 0.35 0.4
Time (s)
200
175 2
150
125 1
THDC
100
75
0
50
25
-1
0 0 0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2 0.25 0.3 0.35 0.4
0 0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2 0.25 0.3 0.35 0.4
Time (s)
Time (s)
Fig. 7-b. THDV and THDC (Capacitor is precharged)
Figure 6-b. Source and Load Voltage for the system with TSC
(Capacitor is precharged)
B. Voltage Regulation for Dynamic Load
As can be seen from Fig. 6-a and Fig 6-b, TSC located at In this case study, dynamic response of TSC on load voltage
Bus 2 provides the enough reactive powers for the static load regulation is investigated for the two-bus system given in Fig.
around its base value to keep the load voltage at the acceptable 3. The machine is connected to Bus 1 and a dynamic load is
level. From Fig. 6-a, it is clearly seen that if the capacitor in connected to Bus 2. The main 380 kV link is installed between
the TSC structure is not charged before the simulation starts, Bus 1 and Bus 2. The six-pulse generator is used for the
TSC produces the transient component of the load voltage. On control of firing angles of TSC as previously used for the
the other hand, if the capacitor is charged before the system with the static load.
simulation starts, the transient component of the load voltage is Active and reactive powers of the dynamic load were given
eliminated as seen from Fig. 6-b. in Table I. Table IV gives commonly used values for the
Now, the waveforms of total harmonic distortion of voltage exponents of the dynamic load model .In this paper, load
(THDV) and total harmonic distortion of current (THDC) are components of the constant power have been investigated for
investigated. Figure 7-a shows THDV and THDC for non- the dynamic load model which is considered as a AC motor.
precharged capacitor and Fig 7-b illustrates THDV and THDC
TABLE IV
for precharged capacitor.
LOAD EXPONENTS FOR DIFFERENT LOAD TYPES
Fig. 7-a and Fig. 7-b demonstrate that the system with TSC
Load
does not inject harmonic components of voltages and np nq Tp1 Tp2 Tq1 Tq2
Component
harmonic component of currents into the line. For precharged
capacitor case, THDV and THDC in Fig 7-b are less than those Constant Power 0 0 0.5 0.25 0.4 0.2
of non-precharged capacitor case. Hence, the test system with Constant Current 1 1 0.5 0.25 0.4 0.2
TSC is not needed a harmonic filter and this is a great Constant
advantage of TSC. 2 2 0.5 0.25 0.4 0.2
Impedance
3 TABLE V
2 SIMULATION RESULTS FOR THE SYSTEM WITHOUT TSC
P Q
THDV
5
3 met and far from nominal values given in Table 1. Therefore,
1 efficiency of the test system is drop dramatically and the
0
-1
system should be compensated for improving power factor and
0 0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2 0.25 0.3 0.35 0.4
Time (s) voltage regulation. The variation of the load voltage obtained
Fig. 7-a. THDV and THDC (Capacitor is not precharged) from simulation results is given in Fig. 8.
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400
375
475
350 450
325 Load Source
Source and Load Voltage (kVrms)
425
Source Load
300 400
Now, TSC will be established in the test system with the 300
dynamic load model for reactive power compensation as 275
250
previously done for the system with the static load model. The
225
simulation results of the test system with TSC are given in 200
Table VI. 175
The required reactive power of the TSC was fixed at 225 150
1
9-a and Fig. 9-b illustrate variations of the source voltage and
the load voltage for TSC with non-pre-charged capacitor and 0
TSC with pre-charged capacitor, respectively. When the
-1
capacitor is charged with the peak value of the source voltage, 0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6
Time (s)
the transient components of the load voltage are considerably
minimized as seen from Fig. 9-b. Fig. 10. THDV and THDC (Capacitor is precharged)
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