Application of Battery Energy Storage DVR for Voltage Sag/Swell Mitigation in Induction Motor Drive Applications

Abstract

Power quality is one of the major concerns in the present power system environment. The situations like-voltage dip/sag, swells, harmonic content and so on, and its major effect on greatly susceptible loads are well known. To face these situations, custom power devices are utilized. Sensitive load has a severe impact on itself due to voltage sag and swell. Dynamic Voltage Restorer (DVR) is a power custom device used in power distribution network. The Dynamic Voltage Restorer (DVR) is fast, flexible and efficient solution to voltage sag problem. The important parts of the DVR comprise of voltage source inverter (VSI), booster transformers, filter and a dc energy source. The principle of the DVR is utilized to inject the voltage in series and in synchronism with the standard voltages with a goal to compensate voltage influences. In this paper, different voltage injection schemes for dynamic voltage restorers (DVRs) are analyzed with particular focus on a new method used to minimize the rating of the voltage source converter (VSC) used in DVR. A new control technique is proposed to control the capacitor-supported DVR. The control of a DVR is demonstrated with a reduced-rating VSC. The reference load voltage is estimated using the unit vectors. The synchronous reference frame theory is used for the conversion of voltages from rotating vectors to the stationary frame. The compensation of the voltage sag, swell, and harmonics is demonstrated using a reduced-rating DVR.