DSTATCOM Performance for Voltage Sag/swell Mitigation
Vidya. M1, P. Pramila2, A. M. Nagaraj3

1Prof. Vidya. M, Assistant Professor, Department of EEE, Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bengaluru, India.
2Prof. Dr. P. Pramila, Professor & HOD, Department of EEE, Bangalore Institute Of Technology, Bengaluru, India.
3Prof. A. M. Nagaraj, Associate Professor, Department of EEE, Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bengaluru, India.

Manuscript received on May 25, 2020. | Revised Manuscript received on June 29, 2020. | Manuscript published on July 30, 2020. | PP: 71-74 | Volume-9 Issue-2, July 2020. | Retrieval Number: A2982059120/2020©BEIESP | DOI: 10.35940/ijrte.A2982.079220
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Abstract: The Indian economy has been growing at a fast pace since the beginning of this millennium. Due to constraints in the availability of fuel and environmental concerns, the power generation sector has not kept pace with other industrial sectors. One way of increasing the power availability is by reducing the high losses in the existing power transmission and distribution systems. The current increases in the motor windings when the voltages in the three phases are unbalanced. Compensation for reactive power and unbalance in the power distribution system are key factors in improving the power quality to the end user. A Distributed Static Compensator [DSTATCOM] is a custom power device, which is connected in shunt with the load in the distribution system to compensate the reactive power due unbalanced loads. The performance of the DSTATCOM is based on the control technique used for finding the voltage referred and current components to be considered. Voltage compensation is defined as the error in voltage in the grid and that the value of voltage that has to be induced in the grid. This is analyzed by using DSTATCOM for voltage compensation with series converter controller block. This paper gives the simulation of voltage compensation to rectify the issue of voltage swell/sag in order to improve the power quality in the distribution system. 
Keywords: DSTATCOM, voltage compensation, series converter.