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Boundary control of dynamic voltage restorers in voltage harmonic compensation

Paul K. W. Chan, Henry S.H. Chung*, S.Y.R. Hui

*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary WorksRGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)peer-review

Abstract

Dynamic voltage restorer (DVR) is used to provide load voltage support and protect sensitive load during voltage sags situation. However, voltage sags do not appear frequently and hence the utilization of the DVR is low. In order to increase the utilization of the DVR, the DVR should operate to compensate any load voltage instability especially the load voltage harmonics and source voltage variations in steady-state operation. A boundary controller using a second-order switching surface is proposed for DVR application for both voltage sags and power quality control under steady-state condition. The switching surface is derived to estimate the state trajectory movement of the DVR after a hypothesized switching action. It results in a high state trajectory velocity along the switching surface. This phenomenon accelerates the trajectory moving towards the target operating point. The dynamic performance of the DVR is verified experimentally with distorted supply voltages, non-linear loads and distorted voltage sag situation. Experimental results confirm that the proposed boundary control scheme can achieve better harmonic compensation performance than some other control methods.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPESC Record - IEEE Annual Power Electronics Specialists Conference
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2006
Event37th IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference 2006, PESC'06 - Jeju, Korea, Republic of
Duration: 18 Jun 200622 Jun 2006

Publication series

Name
ISSN (Print)0275-9306

Conference

Conference37th IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference 2006, PESC'06
PlaceKorea, Republic of
CityJeju
Period18/06/0622/06/06

Research Keywords

  • Boundary control
  • Dynamic voltage restorers (DVR)
  • Harmonic compensation
  • Series compensation
  • Voltage compensation

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