Author(s)

M. Manikandan¹, A. Mahabub Basha²

¹Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Erode Sengunthar Engineering College, Thudupathi, India.
²Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, K.S.R. College of Engineering, Erode, India.

The booming electronics itself carries an impact on power quality. Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage (SMES) is proposed to enhance power quality in three-phase systems under various loads. This paper aimed to compensate the voltage sags under various faults in the grid systems. The SMES is selected as an energy storage unit to improve the capability of voltage sag compensation. Optimized Dual Fuzzy Flow (ODFF) logic controller is designed to prevent the voltage sag time during excessive phase voltage variation. Hence the proposed controller strategy reduces the total harmonic distortion during various fault conditions. To regulate the contribution of active power, the least possible value is improved using ODFF. The depth of voltage sags compensation is achieved by the over modulation and an iterative loop is designed in the control block. While protecting sensitive loads from voltage disturbances, and sags initiated by the power system, the proposed configuration is advantageous for an industrial implementation. It is found that the proposed method can result in more than 50% additional sag support time when compared with the previous methods such as PI and PSO. Utilizing MATLAB Simulink, compensation of sag and minimization of THD is established, and the simulation tests are performed to evaluate the performance of the proposed control method.

Optimized Dual Fuzzy Flow (ODFF), Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage (SMES), Total Harmonic Distortion (THD), Voltage Sag Compensation, Voltage Sag Depth

Manikandan, M. and Basha, A. (2016) ODFF: Optimized Dual Fuzzy Flow Controller Based Voltage Sag Compensation for SMES-Based DVR in Power Quality Applications. Circuits and Systems, 7, 2959-2974. doi: 10.4236/cs.2016.710254.