Passive Reactor Compensated Cascaded H-Bridge Multilevel LC-StatCom

Glen Farivar; Christopher David Townsend; Branislav Hredzak; Josep Pou; Vassilios G. Agelidis

doi:10.1109/TPEL.2016.2641043

Passive Reactor Compensated Cascaded H-Bridge Multilevel LC-StatCom

Glen Farivar, Christopher David Townsend, Branislav Hredzak, Josep Pou, Vassilios G. Agelidis

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Abstract

The cascaded H-bridge (CHB) low-capacitance StatCom (LC-StatCom) has a limited operating area in the inductive region compared to a conventional StatCom's V-I characteristic. This limitation for operation in the inductive region is considered to be the biggest disadvantage of CHB LC-StatCom. In this paper, the effect of adding parallel and series reactors on the LC-StatCom system's V-I characteristic is analyzed. Then, a new configuration, which fully compensates for the lost operating area of the LC-StatCom, is introduced. A scaled down single-phase seven-level laboratory prototype is used to confirm practicability of the proposed system.

Original language	English
Article number	7786824
Pages (from-to)	8338-8348
Number of pages	11
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
Volume	32
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEL.2016.2641043
Publication status	Published - Nov 2017
Externally published	Yes

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Keywords

Cascaded H-bridge
low-capacitance (LC)-StatCom
reactive power compensation
thin dc capacitor

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