Saturated core voltage regulators: parameterization, computational models, and performance studies

Abstract

Summary Despite recognition from a vast number of publications that contemplate performance studies of so called saturated reactors aimed at voltage regulation, the subject, when weighed against the benefits, such as new material based technologies and application perspectives, still presents various challenging topics. In fact, investigations made concerning the physical principles governing its constructive design, the retrieval of representative electric and magnetic parameters, the development of computational models, enabling means for evaluating the effectiveness of the processes for restoring the busbar voltage, among other aspects, are still deserving of research, development and modeling. Given this setting, the present paper considers aspects that guide the physical design concepts and parameterization of these devices, computational strategies aimed at the computational modeling and evaluation of such equipment in voltage regulation and other correlated phenomena. Theoretical results are compared to corresponding experimental performances intent on defining the established models' degree of adhesion.