Active and reactive power control in transmission line with PSO optimized PI controlled five level UPFC

Abstract

In this paper, particle swarm optimization (PSO) optimized PI controlled five level UPFC is proposed for a double circuit transmission line. To enhance UPFC performance, a different approach is considered here. It uses simplified power system models to derive the decoupled power controllers, but detailed modeling of the UPFC power converters improves their ride-through capability. This paper introduces decoupled linear UPFC power controllers to obtain the reference ac voltages and currents for the two back-to-back-connected three-phase five-level NPC converters that enforce active and reactive power control in the transmission line. This paper proposes three main contributions to increase the dc-link voltage steadiness of multilevel UPFCs under line faults: 1) decoupled active and reactive linear power controllers; 2) real-time PWM generation; and 3) balancing of dc capacitor voltages. The MATLAB/SIMULINK model for the proposed circuit with PSO-optimized PI controlled five level UPFC is shown here with the results.