A comparative study of control techniques of distribution-STATCOM under abnormal source voltage

The most important concern regarding a power system is the quality of its power. The main cause of most of the issues is nonlinear loads only. D-STATCOM has turned out to be a good solution to solve this problem because of its ability to compensate reactive power and harmonic components demand of the nonlinear loads. This paper presents comprehensive analysis of comparison the performance of five control techniques for reference currents extraction of D-STATCOM under balanced, un-balanced and distorted voltage condition. The algorithms to be compared are symmetrical components based algorithm, IRP theory, generalized IRP theory, SRF method, and synchronous detection method respectively those are widely used in D-STATCOM. These all algorithms have been simulated in Matlab/Simulink environment. The theoretical study and simulation testing shows the performance and accuracy of considered algorithms in case of balanced unbalanced and distorted source voltage conditions.