Circulating Current Suppression Strategies for D-STATCOM Based on Modular Multilevel Converters
Paper in proceeding, 2015

This work focuses on the circulating current measurement of a STAtic synchronous COMpensator (STATCOM) based on Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC). In a Delta (D) connected MMC-based STATCOM configuration the currents are divided in two parts: grid currents and circulating currents. The latest circulates between legs and has no direct impact on the output current, but it has a third harmonic component, which causes problems in the circulating current control. Thus, this work evaluates three circulating current measurement strategies, with focus on the converter characteristics improvement, such as losses reduction. A classical strategy is compared with other two strategies using a Second Order Generalized Integrator (SOGI) structure. The first proposed strategy eliminates the third harmonic from the circulating current and the second detects the fundamental component of the circulating current eliminating the other harmonic components. Simulated and experimental results show that this strategies achieve reduction in the circulating current, and consequently reduction in the STATCOM losses.

STAtic synchronous COMpensator (STATCOM)

Voltage-Source Converters (VSCs)

performance

Circulating current

pwm statcom

design

Engineering

Modular Multilevel Converters (MMCs)

cascade converter

Energy & Fuels

Author

H. A. Pereira

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Federal University of Viçosa

M. R. Haddioui

Aalborg University

L. O. M. de Oliveira

Federal University of Viçosa

L. Mathe

Aalborg University

Massimo Bongiorno

Chalmers, Energy and Environment, Electric Power Engineering

Remus Teodorescu

Aalborg University

2015 Ieee 13th Brazilian Power Electronics Conference and 1st Southern Power Electronics Conference (Cobep/Spec)

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978-1-4799-8779-5 (ISBN)

Subject Categories

Energy Engineering

DOI

10.1109/COBEP.2015.7420153

ISBN

978-1-4799-8779-5

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4/18/2018