Doctoral Dissertations

Keywords and Phrases

Static synchronous compensator (STATCOM)

Abstract

"Electric arc furnaces (EAFs) are prevalent in the steel industry to melt iron and scrap steel. EAFs frequently cause large amplitude fluctuations of active and reactive power and are the source of significant power quality disturbances. Also EAFs comprise a major portion of industrial loading on the bulk power system. Typically, a static VAR compensator (SVC) or Static Synchronous compensator (STATCOM) are use to provide the reactive power support in order to alleviate the fluctuations in voltage at PCC. Static Synchronous Compensators (STATCOMs) provide a power electronic-based means of embedded control for reactive power support. Integrating an energy storage system (ESS) such as large capacitors with the STATCOM will improve the device performance to have active power controllability as well as the reactive power. A cascaded multilevel STATCOM has been utilized in order to compensate for all the fluctuations caused by an EAF both in the RMS of the voltage at PCC and also the active power generation. Designing a sophisticated controller, it is possible to get the STATCOM track the variations of active power in load. Therefore, the generator does not need to produce the random active power demanded by the load"--Abstract, page iv.

Advisor(s)

Crow, Mariesa

Committee Member(s)

Chowdhury, Badrul H.
Corzine, Keith, 1968-
McMillin, Bruce M.
Ferdowsi, Mehdi

Department(s)

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Degree Name

Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering

Publisher

Missouri University of Science and Technology

Publication Date

Spring 2009

Journal article titles appearing in thesis/dissertation

  • Comparison of linear and nonlinear STATCOM control for power quality enhancement
  • Improved nonlinear STATCOM control for electric arc furnace voltage flicker mitigation
  • Fault detection and mitigation in multilevel converter STATCOMs
  • Application of STATCOM for electric arc furnace distortions

Pagination

x, 90 pages

Note about bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Rights

© 2009 Atousa Yazdani, All rights reserved.

Document Type

Dissertation - Open Access

File Type

text

Language

English

Subject Headings

Electric arc
Electric furnaces
Electric inverters -- Design and construction
Electric power system stability

Thesis Number

T 9523

Print OCLC #

503561833

Electronic OCLC #

309366051

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