<p>In this paper, a harmonic-treated thyristor-controlled reactor TCR is presented as a linearized harmonic-free compensating susceptance controllable in inductive and capacitive modes. The harmonic-treated TCR is a traditional TCR conditioned in such a manner that it can respond continuously and linearly to capacitive and inductive reactive current demands without noticeable harmonic association or active power contribution. The conditioned configuration is produced by equipping the TCR with self-harmonic suppressing and filtering circuitries, which guarantee harmonic cancellation with minimal no load operating losses. The harmonic treated TCR avoids the need to high power harmonic filters required to treat the harmonics of the traditional TCR. The devised susceptances are used to build a load current balancing system for grounded loads in a 380-V, 50Hz power distribution system. Both the compensating susceptances and the load current balancing system were designed and tested on PSpice. The simulation results have demonstrated the linearity, control continuity, and harmonic cancellation of the proposed harmonic-treated TCR as a fast response compensating susceptance reliable for load current balancing purposes. The proposed load current balancing system revealed superior treatment to various unbalance conditions, thus it is deservedly promoted to have the feasibility of supporting grids having fast varying loads.</p>

<span lang="EN-US">In this paper, static var compensators (SVCs) and many load compensation techniques are reviewed. A continuously and linearly controlled compensating susceptance is devised from a switched capacitor bank and a switched reactor bank. The switched capacitor bank is built of four binary weighted thyristor switched capacitors, while the switched reactor bank is built of three binary weighted thyristor switched reactors. Although few switched capacitors and reactor are used, their binary weighted values beside their control scheme make them respond as a continuously and linearly controlled reactive device in capacitive and inductive modes of operation. A load balancing system is constructed of three identical devised compensating susceptances connected in delta-form. It is designed for balancing an 11 kV 50 Hz distribution station. The proposed system is designed and tested on PSpice which is a computer program equivalent in performance to real hardware design. The simulation results of the proposed system have showed significant treatment of severe imbalance conditions.</span>

<p>In this paper, a load balancing system is designed to balance the secondary phase currents of 11 kV/380 V, 50 Hz, 100 kVA power transformer in a three phase 4-wire, distribution network. The load balancing system is built of six identical modified static synchronous compensators (M-STATCOMs). Each M-STATCOM is constructed of a voltage source converter-based H-bridge controlled in capacitive and inductive modes as a linear compensating susceptance. The M-STATCOM current is controlled by varying its angle such that it exchanges pure reactive current with the utility grid. Three identical M-STATCOMs are connected in delta-form to balance the active phase currents of the power transformer, whereas the other three identical M-STATCOMs are connected in star-form to compensate for reactive currents. The M-STATCOMs in the delta-connected compensator are driven by 380 V line-to-line voltages, whilst, those connected in star-form are driven by 220 V phase voltages. The results of the 220 V and 380 V M-STATCOMs have exhibited linear and continuous control in capacitive and inductive regions of operation without steady-state harmonics. The proposed load balancing system has offered high flexibility during treating moderate and severe load unbalance conditions. It can involve any load unbalance within the power transformer current rating and even unbalance cases beyond the power transformer current rating.<strong></strong></p>