Investigation of performance of UPFC without DC link capacitor

This paper presents an analysis of the dynamic operation of unified power flow controller without DC link capacitor. In this scheme of UPFC the shunt converter present in the static synchronous compensator is operated as a current source rectifier, which maintains a fixed DC voltage and DC current on the DC link without capacitor. The capacitor in the DC link is replaced by an AC filter on the line side with a very small value to reduce higher order harmonics. The voltage source inverter present in the series compensator is operated with space vector modulation technique. The proposed scheme is fully validated through digital simulation. The simulated results show that the DC link voltage is maintained constant without DC link capacitor; STATCOM provides good voltage regulation and static synchronous series compensator influences power flow over the transmission line. Transient responses of single machine infinite bus power system have also been presented. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.