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Performance of the 80 MVA GCT STATCOM under Commercial Operation

Toshiyuki Fujii Member (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation) Hirokazu Chisyaki Member (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation) Hitoshi Teramoto Non-member (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation) Tadashi Sato Member (The Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc.) Yoshinao Matsushita Member (The Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc.) Yoriko Shinki Member (The Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc.) Sadao Funahashi Member (Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation) Naoki Morishima Member (Toshiba Mitsubishi-Electric Industrial Systems Corporation)
Keywords: GCT thyristor, multistage converter, STATCOM, voltage control This paper presents a newly developed an 80MVA GCT STATCOM for the Kanzaki substation of the Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc. The commercial operation was started in June, 2004. The main purpose of the STATCOM is to maintain voltage during single circuit connection of source to the substation resulting from an AC system fault in order not to break down load system of the substation. The developed STATCOM has three distinctive features: (1) a highecient, compact and AC lter-less system using multistage threelevel GCT converter and customized harmonics reduction PWM; (2) a coordinated voltage regulator with tap control of main transformers; and (3) a continuous operation from a single phase-ground fault through reclosing of the faulted circuit by limiter adjustments of the reactive current reference. This paper describes characteristics of the coordinated voltage control in the substation, and shows performance of the continuous operation during AC system faults using data of commercial operations and the simulation results. A single-line diagram around the substation is shown in Fig. 1. The substation receives power from an AC system of 154 kV with double circuits and delivers to its load. In case of an AC system fault at point A in Fig. 1 as an example, the faulted circuit will be disconnected and the part of the connection between 154 kV bus and the substation will be a single circuit. If the substation delivers the power to the load in heavy condition, then a voltage collapse possibly happens with the weak connection of the single circuit. The system study on AC system faults in the double circuits showed that about 80 Mvar of reactive power compensation is required immediately after the fault clearing to maintain the load voltage of the substation. The 80MVA STATCOM, therefore, is introduced to the substation. The main circuit of the STATCOM is shown in Fig. 2. The converters incorporate the largest capacity GCT thyristors rated at 6 kV, 6 kA to achieve higher eciency and more conpactness. The lterless design has been achieved by the customized harmonics reduction PWM using harmonic elimination tehchniques and phase shift control with multiple converter legs considering the empedance characteristics of the AC system. The coordination control with tap control of the main transformers keeps the STATCOM lower output reactive power and losses. Further the number of tap changing is also decreased to 38% of the operation without the STATCOM. The commercial operation showed that the loss of the STATCOM is about 150 kW in normal operation. The acquired waveforms in commercial operation conrm that the continuous operation can be achieved by current-limit adjustor triggered by voltage-distortion and excessive current detectors during AC system faults. The comparison between commercial operation and simulation results shows that the control method is adequiate to the system.

Fig. 1. A single-line diagram of the AC system around the Kanzaki substation

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Fig. 2. The main circuit conguration of the 80 MVA GCT STATCOM