48-pulse, GTO-STATCOM-compensated power system

This model implements a 48-pulse, GTO STATCOM connected to a 3-bus, 3-plant, and 2-load power system. The model demonstrates the advantages of using Opal-RT Time-Stamped Bridges and ARTEMIS to model FACTS devises in power systems. Model description

48-pulse STATCOM is built with four 3-phase, 3-level inverters coupled with 4 phase shifting transformers introducing a phase shift of +/- 7.5. This power system has 3 buses and 3 power lines and the STATCOM device is connected to BUS1. The network is also composed of 3 ideal inductive sources.

The STATCOM is modeled with Opal-RT Time-Stamped Bridges while the rest of the power system is modeled with SimPowerSystems and ARTEMIS [18].

This model demonstrates STATCOM dynamics during voltage sags and swells and its reactive power compensation. Both studies on STATCOM and power systems can be carried out in this model. The interesting research topics on STATCOM could be the STATCOM dynamics, control, parameter selection, fault study, and protection. The interesting research topics on the power system side could be harmonics filtering, optimizing of STATCOM sizing and siting, etc.

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