Abstract

Electrical power quality (EPQ) in distribution systems is a critical issue for commercial, industrial and residential applications. The new concept of advanced power electronic based Custom Power Devices (CPDs) mainly distributed static synchronous compensator (D-STATCOM), dynamic voltage restorer (DVR) and unified power quality conditioner (UPQC) have been developed due to lacking the performance of traditional compensating devices to minimize power quality disturbances. This paper presents a comprehensive review on D-STATCOM, DVR and UPQC to solve the electrical power quality problems of the distribution networks. This is intended to present a broad overview of the various possible DSTATCOM, DVR and UPQC configurations for single-phase (two wire) and three-phase (three-wire and four-wire) networks and control strategies for the compensation of various power quality disturbances. Apart from this, comprehensive explanation, comparison, and discussion on D-STATCOM, DVR, and UPQC are presented. This paper is aimed to explore a broad prospective on the status of D-STATCOMs, DVRs, and UPQCs to researchers, engineers and the community dealing with the power quality enhancement. A classified list of some latest research publications on the topic is also appended for a quick reference.

Highlights

  • Nowadays electrical power quality is a very important issue in the electrical distribution system

  • This paper focuses on a DSTATCOM, dynamic voltage restorer (DVR) and unified power quality conditioner (UPQC) type compensating custom power devices

  • The custom power devices (CPDs) mainly DSTATCOMs, DVRs and UPQCs are the active power filters (APFs) family members connected in shunt, series and a combination of shunt and series to achieve superior control over different power quality disturbances simultaneously

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Summary

Introduction

Nowadays electrical power quality is a very important issue in the electrical distribution system. The compensating custom power devices are used for active filtering, load balancing, voltage regulating (sag/swell), harmonic elimination and power factor correction. These devices are either connected in shunt or in series or a combination of both and called D-STATCOM, DVR and UPQC. DVR: A dynamic voltage restorer (DVR) is a power electronic (PE) converter-based CPD, which can protect sensitive loads from all supply-side disturbances other than outages The different aspects such as modeling, design and simulation for harmonic elimination, voltage flicker suspension [9], voltage sag and swell mitigation are reported in [51,52,53,54]. A.Ghosh et al [65] discussed the application of UPQC for voltage regulation in critical loads

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