ABSTRACT

The main objectives of current research work is to improve the

power quality and voltage stability of hybrid energy system.
The effect of distributed energy resources on the power quality
and voltage stability of power systems have been investigated
thoroughly. Stand alone and hybrid system of solar and wind
with grid connectivity have been developed. Several
characterstics such as bus voltage profiles, voltage transients,
power flow and total harmonic disortion at different buses are
also investigated. The integration of Flexible Alternating
Current Transmission System(FACTS) devices like Static
Synchronous Series Compensator(SSSC), Unified Power
Controller(UPEC), Static VAR Compensator(SVC) and Static
Compensator(STATCOM) into power systems have been made.
The effects of FACTS devices on power quality and the voltage
stability of power system with distributed energy resources
have been studied and characterstics with different proposed
FACTS controllers were also dawn. Further, the detail of
indirect matrix convertor has also been depicted in the current
research. Indirect matrix convertors are also capable of
providing sinusoidal input and output current without DC link
capacitor. The control of Indirect Matrix Convertor(IMC) is
added with rotor current control of Doubly Fed Induction
Generator(DFIG) to achieve a very good dynamic response as
the rotor current smoothly. The proposed method leads to a
reduction in the dynamic response as the rotor current
smoothly. The proposed method leads to reduction in the
communication losses in the output convertor. Among all pulse
width modulation(PWM) techniques, the space vector pulse
width modulation is selected as the best one because of low
switching losses and high harmonic density, high power factor
and high switching frequency. The load voltage, load current
waveforms have been analyzed by using MATLAB/SIMULINK
platform. The different characterstics of turbine generator with
grid and withour grid for a variation in wind speed are being
analyzed during three phase symmetrical fault also.
Conclusion

In India, electric energy demand is increased in day to day.

Hybrid power generation is the solution to compensate the
upcoming demand. This research work describes the
functionality application of the FACTS devices to increase the
power quality performance of the power systems with large
share of distributed energy resources, which includes large
renewable sources such as solar, wind farms, etc.
Chapter 2 shows both solar and wing systems are integrated
to be designed and stimulated as a hybrid system. The
photovoltaic array is stimulated according to the characterstics
equations with variable temperatureas well as irradiance, the
solar model has been stimulated in MATLAB/SIMULINK. A
MPPT technique or algorithm is used to regulate the gate pulse
switch of boost convertor. It is also used to derive maximum
power from the module. The perturb and observe algorith is
considered amongst all it is uncomplicated, easy in operation as
well as hardware implementation is very less as compared to
other methods or techniques. DC to DC conversion based
convertor is designed and stimulated which increases the
amount of voltage extracted from the solar. SEIG based wind
energy system has been designed and stimulated. The
stimulation results showed the excellent performance of the
hybrid control in response to severe changes in wind speed and
solar intensity conditions.
Chapter 3 showed FACTS devices such as STATCOM, SVC,
SSSC, And UPFC are used for power quality improvement along
voltage profile in a 12 bus system considered in this thesis work.
FACTS devices are placed at suitable locations in a 12 bus
multi-machine power system model with two wind farm
sources. Stimulations show that there is a significant
improvement in power quality due to the FACTS devices. The
developed model is stable with and without FACTS devices.
When comparing FACTS devices for better power quality and
voltage stability, it is clear that STATCOM and SSSC are superior
to other FACTS devices.
The details of indirect matrix convertor have been
discussed in chapter 4. The rotor active power is about
2000W whereas reactive power is about 20VAR. The active
and reactive power of stator is almost constant at very small
flactuation about 2%. Further, the complexity of designing a
power electronic convertor with capacitor sizing was really a
difficult and expensive job for designers. Due to easier way
of designing convertor they can be rapidly used in wind
energy conversion systems not only but also any other
power circuit. It is also observed that the indirect matrix
convertors are capable of provoding sinusoidal input and
output current without the DC-Link capacitor. This is major
advantage regarding reduction in size and cost of AC-AC
convertor topologies.
Chapter 5 deals with the fault analysis taken into
consideration during the operation of DFIG in WECS. For
best efficiency and better control the DFIG system is
used which is connected to the grid side. The rotor side
convertor(RSC) usually provides active and reactive
power control of the machine while the grid side
convertor(GSC) keeps the voltage of the DC link constant.
The grid side and wind turbine side parameters are
stimulated and the corresponding results have been
shown in the work. It shows the nature of current
changes with the type of fault occurs in the transmission
system. The nature of wind turbine speed also changes
with the occurance of faults. The protection system is
also taken into consideratino which gives a trip signal to
the system when there is fault on the system. Based on
the stimulation results it can be said that doubly fed
induction generator proved to be more reliable and
stable system when connected to grid side with the
proper convertor control systems.