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STATCOM – A Preface to Power Quality in Power Systems Performance

“…Each output voltage of converter is in phase with line voltage due to small tie reactance linking converter and line. Conventionally two-level VSC are used for STATCOM, however, nowadays multi-level VSC due to its modularity in structure and power handling capability are quickly replacing two-level VSCs for STATCOM [26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39].…”

Cascaded Multilevel Converter-Based Transmission STATCOM: System Design Methodology and Development of a 12 kV ±12 MVAr Power Stage

“…In these practical STATCOM systems implemented in the field, various power semiconductors have been employed i.e., silicon-controlled rectifiers (conventional fast switching thyristors) [5], Gate Turn-off thyristors (GTO) [6,7,[9][10][11]14], Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors (IGBT) [8,12,13,15,16,[19][20][21][22]26,27], Injection Enhanced Insulated Gate Transistor (IEGT) [15] and Integrated Gate Commutated Thyristors (IGCT) [18,[23][24][25]. Two-level, six-pulse bridge converters with relatively high switching frequencies and relatively low installed capacities are usually being the characteristics of Distribution type STATCOM (D-STATCOM) systems [18,[23][24][25].…”

A Comparing Study on Voltage Support Ability between STATCOM and Generator

“…Among the above strategies, dynamic reactive power compensation achieves widely research and application for its fast response, flexible control and less occupation. Synchronous generator (condenser), mechanically switched compensator, static var compensator(SVC), static compensator(STATCOM) are all paralleling reactive power compensation strategies and can providing dynamic reactive power with different characteristic [7][8][9][10][11][12][13] .…”