Unified Power Quality Conditioner using PV Fed SVPWM based Multilevel Converters for Power Quality Improvement
P. Chandra Sekhar
P. Chandra Sekhar, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India.
Manuscript received on March 15, 2020. | Revised Manuscript received on March 28, 2020. | Manuscript published on April 10, 2020. | PP: 1060-1064 | Volume-9 Issue-6, April 2020. | Retrieval Number: F4160049620/2020©BEIESP | DOI: 10.35940/ijitee.F4160.049620
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Abstract: This paper presents a solar photovoltaic based unified power quality conditioner (PV-UPQC). The proposed system consists of a shunt compensator (ShC), series compensator (SeC) and PV array connected in parallel to a common dc-link. A three-level diode clamped multilevel inverter configuration is used as shunt and series converters. The SVPWM technique provides reduction in the common mode voltage and the balancing of the dc link voltage. The shunt compensation converter extracts power from PV array and provides compensation for load harmonic currents. The series compensation converter compensates for the power quality (PQ) problems such as grid voltage sags/swells and source harmonic voltages. The proposed system utilizes space vector pulse width modulation (SV-PWM) in multilevel converter topology for the mitigating the power quality problems using PV-UPQC. The proposed system improves PQ and also utilize RES, it also simultaneously improves both current and voltage disturbances. The performance of the system is analyzed in MATLAB/Simulink for nonlinear load conditions.
Keywords: Power Quality, Space Vector Pulse Width Modulation, Shunt Compensator, Series Compensator, Solar Photovoltaic, Unified Power Quality Conditioner, Multilevel Inverter.
Scope of the Article: Software & System Quality of Service.