Power Quality Improvement Using Dstatcom in Distribution Network

Abstract

In the present scenario, power quality is an important element of power system. Different nonlinear devices like diodes, rectifiers, and furnaces are generating power fluctuation, voltage sag and swell concerns, load imbalance, voltage imbalance, and other power quality issues, which may be controlled by FACTS devices such as DVR, STATCOM, Active power filter, UPFC, and UPQC. In the present work, application of DSTATCOM in the distribution network to overcome power quality issues, meeting the reactive requirement of the load to raise power factor to unity are addressed. A novel Sinusoidal PWM (SPWM) control technique is employed to reduce the harmonics in the distribution network. It relies on weighted value convergence and is unaffected by carrier signal characteristics. In this paper, four different cases have been considered with varying supply voltages. The simulation results show that D-STATCOM works efficiently and offers very less THD for different power quality problem like voltage sag, swell, load imbalance, voltage fluctuation etc. The Voltage Source Converter is regulated using the Sinusoidal PWM method. The result indicates that the DSTATCOM and SPWM control technique is helpful for power quality improvement.