A CASE STUDY ON HIGH POWER COMPENSATOR OF THE POWER GRID IRREGULARITIES FOR INDUSTRIAL APPLIANCES

Abstract

The paper presents a case study on development of the high power compensator of the power grid irregularities. The compensator is dedicated for sensitive industrial installations protection against dips, sags and short duration interruptions in public power network. The energy for compensation will be stored in bank of high voltage stacked supercapacitors. The development of the new high power medium voltage compensator will be based on experience gained during the realisation in The Electrotechnical Institute Gdansk Branch a similar medium power low voltage device. The study includes: main power converter topology considerations with some preliminary simulation results including harmonic components discussion, the solution to the problem of fast identification of the grid voltage disturbances, the solution to the problem of compensator waveforms synchronization with the grid and the description of the main operational algorithm of the compensator.