Enhancement of Voltage Profile By Using Static Synchronous Compensator (Statcom) in Power System Networks

Abstract

Voltage profile is one of the concerned issues in power system network studies. The voltage profile decay can be experienced by the system when system is subjected to load increment or disturbances. Unscheduled increment of load variation in a power transmission system has driven the system to be stressful, leading to potential cascading trip on the entire system. and capacitor placement. In this paper we introduced the Static Synchronous Compensator (STATCOM), a shunt connected Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS) device which is capable to regulate the voltage profile by generating or observing the reactive power. Our objective has been tested with different size and different location of STATCOM on IEEE-4 Bus System and IEEE-9 Bus System by using the Newton-Raphson load flow method in MATLAB environment. In this work, firstly we have analysed IEEE-4 bus system and IEEE-9 bus system under the standard test data and after that analysed IEEE- 4 bus system and IEEE-9 bus system with STATCOM under the standard test data. After that, we have compared all the load flow results and observed the effect of STATCOM on voltage profile The different sizes of STATCOM used in the test systems are 20,40,60,80and 100MVAr.