abstract

• This paper presents a control scheme of a wide-area controlled static VAr compensator (WAC-SVC) and its real-time implementation in a hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation scheme with three control objectives: (1) to increase the critical clearing time, (2) to damp the power oscillations, and (3) to minimize the maximum line current. The proposed control scheme considers a correction strategy to compensate the delays up to 200 ms. In addition to this, a generator tripping scheme based on synchrophasor measurements to determine the proximity to the loss of synchronism is proposed. A delay compensation algorithm based on polynomial approximations is also developed. The proposed WAC-SVC is experimentally validated using a Real-Time Digital Simulator platform (RTDS), industrial communication protocols, a commercial device for PMU-based control implementations, and digital relays with PMU capability. The real-time simulation results confirm its effectiveness and feasibility in real industrial applications. Furthermore, practical guidelines to implement this kind of control schemes are provided. © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.

authors

• Barocio E.
• Esparza A.
• García H.
• Núñez Gutiérrez Ciro Alberto
• Segundo J.
• Visairo Cruz Nancy

publication date

• 2018-01-01

funding provided via

• Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, CONACYT: 369611  Grant

published in

• Energies  Journal

keywords

• Hardware-in-the-loop; PMU; Real-time simulation; SVC; Wide-area control Approximation algorithms; Electric fault currents; Hardware; Hardware-in-the-loop simulation; Polynomial approximation; Real time control; Synthetic apertures; Transients; Hard-ware-in-the-loop; Hardwarein-the-loop(HIL) simulation; Industrial communication protocols; Real time digital simulator; Real time simulations; Real-time implementations; Synchrophasor measurements; Wide area control; Static Var compensators

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.3390/en11071639

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volume

• 11

issue

• 7