VINAYAKA MISSIONS UNIVERSITY AARUPADAI VEEDU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT OF EEE M.

E POWER SYSTEM ENGINEERING

Subject: FLEXIBLE AC TRANSMISSION SYSTEM UNIT I

INTRODUCTION

PART A 1. What is a Static VAR compensator? 2. What is the need of FACTS controller? 3. What is fixed series compensation? 4. What is fixed shunt compensation? 5. What are the disadvantages of series capacitor? 6. Write the advantages of SVC dynamic characteristics. 7. Explain the need for a reactor in series with capacitor in TCR. 8. Compare fixed series compensation with series compensation. 9. What is STATCOM? 10. What are the advantages of Thyristor Switched Series Capacitor? PART B 1. Explain the operation of a single phase TCR with a circuit diagram. 2. Explain the operating characteristics of a TCR (i) without voltage control and (ii) with voltage control. 3. Explain the operation of 3 phase TGR with circuit diagram. 4. Explain series compensation and shunt compensation with necessary equivalent circuits and phasor diagrams. 5. Explain the operation of TCSC with circuit diagrams..

Unit 2: Part A
1. What is the difference between shunt and series compensation? 2. What is Sub Synchronous Resonance? 3. What is SSR damping? 4. What are the operating modes of TCSC? 5. What is enhanced Current Control? 6. What is meant by TCSC concept? 7. Define system stability? 8. Define system damping? 9. What is meant by enhanced power control strategies of TCSC? 10. Define variable reactance?

Part B.
1) Explain the basic concept of TCSC and its operating modes. 2) Explain the variable reactance and transient stability models of TCSC 3) Discuss constant current and constant angle of TCSC. 4) Explain constant power and enhanced power control strategies of TCSC 5) Explain how the system stability and system damping can be improved by TCSC

Unit 3: Part A
1) What is Unified power flow? 2) What is STATCOM ? 3) What is SSSC? 4) What are the switching devices used in STATCOM? 5) What is Inter Phase Controller? 6) What are the switching devices used in SSSC? 7) What are the advantages of STATCOM? 8) What are advantages of SSSC?

Part B
1) Explain the implementation of power flow control using conventional thyristors with at least two types of controllers along with the characteristics of them 2) Explain the unified power flow controller concept and its implementation . 3) Compare the performance of conventional thyristor controller and unified power flow controllers. 4) Explain the principle and operation of STATCOM . 5) Explain the principle and operation of SSSC

Unit 4: PART A.
1) What is TCBR? 2) What is coordination of FACTS controllers? 3) What is meant SMES? 4) What is meant BESS? 5) Multi-modal decomposition is based on which standard type of controller ? 6) What are the different control techniques used for coordinating FACTS controllers? 7) Compare SVC-SVC interactions in power system? 8) Compare SVC-HVDC interactions in power system? 9) Compare TCSC-TCSC interactions in power system? 10) What is multi- modal decomposition formulation

PART B.
1) Explain the approximate multi- modal decomposition formulation and discuss the model characteristics and control influence. 2) Discuss about the SVC SVC interactions in power system operation 3) Discuss about the SVC- HVDC interactions in power system operation. 4) Discuss about the TCSC-TCSC interactions in power system operation.

Unit-V

PART A.
1) What are the advantages of TCR? 2) What is meant by Switching? 3) Define TSR ? 4) Define saturation? 5) Differentiate between TSR and TSC? 6) What is meant by saturated reactor? 7) What is meant by compensation? 8) Define triggering? 9) What is meant by VAR compensation? 10) What are the methods used for Static VAR compensation technique? Part B 1) Explain about Thyristor controlled reactor? 2) Give a detailed explanation about fixed capacitor? 3) Explain about Thyristor switched reactor? 4) Explain briefly about Thyristor switched capacitor 5) Explain about saturated reactor?