On the construction of power quality control systems

Abstract

Some aspects of the construction of power quality control systems in power supply systems are discussed. The basic requirements for quality factors of electric power are determined, the conditions of joint parallel operation of energy consumers are considered, and analysis of traditional ways of solving the emerging problems is carried out. The advantages and disadvantages of power quality control systems related to the capabilities of new technologies with application of high-power semiconductor switching devices (GTO and IGCT thyristors, MOSFET and IGBT transistors) are considered. The application of computer technology in power quality control systems makes it possible to use rather complicated and effective algorithms of numerical processing of signals and significantly increase the accuracy of correction of disturbances in electric networks. The advantages and disadvantages of industrial plants constructed in the form of a controlled reactor with a dc magnetic bias and a reactor with a thyristor key are considered. Two types of devices to compensate for possible disadvantages are identified: devices using fully controlled keys and devices ones using artificial commutation and incompletely controlled power keys. A brief analysis of the known methods of electric power quality control is implemented. Recommendations for the establishment of power quality control systems are suggested in which the parameters of software depend on the solution algorithm of a posed problem, while the algorithm itself depends on the method of control and mathematical laws on which it is based. The method of control determines the structure of the power quality control system, while the software determines the basic operations of information processing, their quantity, the scheme of data processing, the volume data flows, etc.