A practical disturbance generator to test performances of various power quality mitigation devices

Authors

AHMET TEKE
MEHMET EMİN MERAL
MEHMET TÜMAY
MEHMET UĞRAŞ CUMA

DOI

10.3906/elk-1012-7

Abstract

In this paper, a practical thyristor-based 3-phase sag/swell/outage generator (disturbance generator) is designed to test various power quality mitigation devices (PQMDs), such as solid state transfer switch (SSTS), static voltage compensator (SVC), and uninterruptible power supply. The latest technological disturbance generators (DGs) and the proposed DG are comprehensively discussed and compared with focus on usefulness, economic aspects, and simplicity. The proposed DG is used for experimentally generating different fault conditions and testing a SSTS. The comparisons and analyses show that the proposed DG is an optimum and simple solution to generate sag, swell, unbalance, overvoltage, undervoltage, and outage to test PQMDs.

Keywords

Power quality, disturbance generator, power quality mitigation device, voltage sag, voltage swell, outage

First Page

38

Last Page

54

Recommended Citation

TEKE, AHMET; MERAL, MEHMET EMİN; TÜMAY, MEHMET; and CUMA, MEHMET UĞRAŞ (2013) "A practical disturbance generator to test performances of various power quality mitigation devices," Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences: Vol. 21: No. 1, Article 3. https://doi.org/10.3906/elk-1012-7
Available at: https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/elektrik/vol21/iss1/3