A seven level cascaded multilevel dstatcom for compensation of reactive power and harmonics

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A SEVEN LEVEL CASCADED MULTILEVEL DSTATCOM FOR
COMPENSATION OF REACTIVE POWER AND HARMONICS USING
PSCPWM AND LSCPWM TECHNIQUES
D.MOHAN REDDY1
, T.GOWRIMANOHAR2
1
(Associate Professor,Department of EEE, Sri Vasavi Institute Of Engg &
Technology,Machilipatnam, Krishna Dist, India)
2
(Associate Professor,Department of EEE, SVUniversity,Tirupati,Chittoor Dist, India)
ABSTRACT
The “multilevel converter” has drawn tremendous interest in the power industry. The
general structure of the multilevel converter is to synthesize a sinusoidal voltage from several
levels of voltages, Multilevel voltage source converters are emerging as a new breed of
power converter options for high power applications, These converter topologies can generate
high-quality voltage waveforms with power semiconductor switches operating at a frequency
near the fundamental. Among the available multilevel converter topologies, the cascaded
multilevel converter constitutes a promising alternative, providing a modular design that can
be extended to allow a transformer less connection. This paper presents a three-phase, seven
level cascaded multilevel voltage source inverter based DSTATCOM for power line
conditioning to improve power quality in the distribution network. Finally a level shifted
PWM (LSPWM) and phase shifted PWM (PSPWM) techniques are adopted to investigate the
performance of CHB Inverter based DSTATCOM. The results are obtained through Mat lab /
Simulink software package.
Keywords: Cascaded H- Bridge Multilevel Inverter, DSTATCOM, Instantaneous power
theory, Power quality.PWM.
I. INTRODUCTION
In recent years Electrical Power Quality had obtained more attention in power
engineering. In present day’s power distribution systems is suffering from severe power
quality problems. These power quality problems include high reactive power burden,
harmonics currents, load unbalance, excessive neutral current etc. The measure of power
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quality depends upon the needs of the equipment that is being supplied. What is good power
quality for an electric motor may not be good enough for a personal computer. Usually the
term power quality refers to maintaining a sinusoidal waveform of bus voltages at rated
voltage and frequency [1]. The waveform of electric power at generation stage is purely
sinusoidal and free from any distortion. Many of the Power conversion and consumption
equipment are also designed to function under pure sinusoidal voltage waveforms. However,
there are many devices that distort the waveform. These distortions may propagate all over
the electrical network. In recent years, there has been an increased use of non-linear loads
which has resulted in an increased fraction of non-sinusoidal currents and voltages in Electric
Network. The wave shape phenomena associated with power quality may be characterized
into synchronous and non synchronous phenomena. Synchronous phenomena refer to those in
synchronism with A.C waveform at power frequency [2],[3].
A group of controllers together called Custom Power Devices (CPD), which include
the DSTATCOM (distribution static compensator), The DSTATCOM, is a shunt-connected
device, which takes care of the power quality problems in the currents It consists of a dc
capacitor, three-phase inverter (IGBT, thyristor) module, ac filter, coupling transformer and a
control strategy. The basic electronic block of the D-STATCOM is the voltage-sourced
inverter that converts an input dc voltage into a three-phase output voltage at fundamental
frequency. The D-STACOM employs an inverter to convert the DC link voltage Vdc on the
capacitor to a voltage source of adjustable magnitude and phase. Therefore the D-STATCOM
can be treated as a voltage-controlled source. The D-STATCOM can also be seen as a
current-controlled source. The generalized instantaneous reactive power theory which is
valid for sinusoidal or non-sinusoidal and balanced or unbalanced three-phase power systems
with or without zero-sequence currents were later proposed [8]. The construction controller
of the D-STATCOM is used to operate the inverter in such a way that the phase angle
between the inverter voltage and the line voltage is dynamically adjusted so that the D-
STATCOM generates or absorbs the desired VAR at the point of connection. The phase of
the output voltage of the thyristor-based inverter, Vi, is controlled in the same way as the
distribution system voltage, Vs.
The DSTATCOM is based on the instantaneous real-power theory; it provides good
compensation characteristics in steady state as well as transient states [11]. The instantaneous
real-power theory generates the reference currents required to compensate the distorted line
current harmonics and reactive power. It also tries to maintain the dc-bus voltage across the
capacitor constant. Another important characteristic of this real-power theory is the simplicity
of the calculations, which involves only algebraic calculation [12].
A multilevel inverter can reduce the device voltage and the output harmonics by
increasing the number of output voltage levels. There are several types of multilevel
inverters: cascaded H-bridge (CHB), neutral point clamped, flying capacitor [2-5]. In
particular, among these topologies, CHB inverters are being widely used because of their
modularity and simplicity. Various modulation methods can be applied to CHB inverters.
CHB inverters can also increase the number of output voltage levels easily by increasing the
number of H-bridges. This paper presents a DSTATCOM with a proportional integral
controller based CHB multilevel (five level and seven level) inverter for the harmonics and
reactive power mitigation of the nonlinear loads. This type of arrangements have been widely
used for PQ applications due to increase in the number of voltage levels, low switching
losses, low electromagnetic compatibility for hybrid filters and higher order harmonic
elimination.

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II.PROPOSED SYSTEM
Fig 1: Schematic Diagram of DSTATCOM
Instantaneous real-power theory based cascaded multilevel inverter based DSTATCOM
is connected in the distribution network at the PCC through filter inductances and operates in a
closed loop. The DSTATCOM system contains a cascaded inverter, RL-filters, a compensation
controller (instantaneous real-power theory) and switching signal generator (proposed triangular-
sampling current modulator) as shown in the Fig 1. The three-phase supply source connected with
non-linear load and these nonlinear loads currents contains fundamental and harmonic
components. If the active power filter provides the total reactive and harmonic power, is (t) will
be in phase with the utility voltage and would be sinusoidal. At this time, the active filter must
provide the compensation current therefore, active power filter estimates the fundamental
components and compensating the harmonic current and reactive power.
2.1 Seven level CHB Inverter
Fig. 2 Seven level CHB inverter
Fig 2 Shows the seven level multilevel inverter and Table shows the switching states of the seven
level inverter.

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Table I Switching table for Full H-Bridge of seven level inverter
Switches Turn ON Voltage
Level
S1,S2,S6,S8,S10,S12 Vdc/3
S1,S2,S5,S6,S10,S12 2Vdc/3
S1,S2,S5,S6,S9,S10 Vdc
S2,S4,S6,S8,S10,S12 0
S3,S4,S6,S8 S10,S12 -Vdc/3
S3,S4,S7,S8,S10,S12 -2Vdc/3
S3,S4,S7,S8,S11,S12 -Vdc
III. REFERENCE CURRENT CONTROL STRATEGY:
The control scheme of the shunt active power filter must calculate the current
reference signals from each phase of the inverter using instantaneous real-power
compensator. The block diagram as shown in Fig.3, that control scheme generates the
reference current required to compensate the load current harmonics and reactive power. The
PI controller is tried to maintain the dc-bus voltage across the capacitor constant of the
cascaded inverter. This instantaneous real- power compensator with PI-controller is used to
extracts reference value of current to be compensated.
Fig 3: Reference current generator using instantaneous real-power theory
These reference currents isa*, isb *and isc * are calculated instantaneously without any
time delay by using the instantaneous α,β coordinate currents. The required references
current derivate from the inverse Clarke transformation and it can be written as
(1)
The p-q theory performs a Clarke transformation of a stationary system of coordinates
a bc to an orthogonal reference system of coordinates α ,β. In a bc coordinates axes are fixed
on the same plane, apart from each other by 1200
that as shown in Fig 2. The instantaneous

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space vectors voltage and current Va , ia are set on the a-axis, Vb , ib are on the b axis, and
Vc, ic are on the c axis. These space vectors are easily transformed into α ,β coordinates. The
instantaneous source voltages vsa, vsb, vsc are transformed into the α ,β coordinate’s voltage
Vα, Vβ by Clarke transformation as follows:
(2)
Similarly, the instantaneous source current isa, isb, isc also transformed into the α ,β
coordinate’s current i α , i β by Clarke transformation that is given as:
(3 a)
Where α and β axes are the orthogonal coordinates. They Vα , iα are on the α-axis,
and Vβ, iβ are on the β-axis. The reference currents isa*, isb * and isc * are compared with
actual source current isa , isb and isc that facilitates generating cascaded multilevel inverter
switching signals using the proposed triangular-sampling current modulator. The small
amount of real-power is adjusted by changing the amplitude of fundamental component of
reference currents and the objective of this algorithm is to compensate all undesirable
components. When the power system voltages are balanced and sinusoidal, it leads to
constant power at the dc bus capacitor and balanced sinusoidal currents at AC mains
simultaneously. The orthogonal coordinates of voltage and current vα, iα are on the α-axis
and vβ, iβ are on the β-axis. Let the instantaneous real-power calculated from the α-axis and
β - axis of the current and voltage respectively. These are given by the conventional
definition of real-power as :
(3 b)
3.1. PWM Techniques for CHB Inverter
The most popular PWM techniques used for CHB inverter are
1. Phase Shifted Carrier PWM (PSCPWM)
2. Level Shifted Carrier PWM (LSCPWM)
V. MATLAB/SIMULINK MODELING AND SIMULATION RESULTS
Here the simulation is carried out by three cases
1. Non-linear load Without DSTATCOM
2. Non-linear load with seven level PSCPWM cascaded multilevel DSTATCOM and
3. Non-linear load with seven level LSCPWM Cascaded multilevel DSTATCOM.

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Case 1: Nonlinear load without DSTATCOM
Fig 6 : Matlab/Simulink model of nonlinear load without DSTATCOM
Fig-7 shows the three phase source voltages, three phase source currents and load currents
respectively without DSTATCOM. It is clear that without DSTATCOM load current and
source currents are same.
Fig 7: Source voltage, Source current, Load current without DSTATCOM
Case 2: Non-linear load with seven level PSCPWM cascaded multilevel DSTATCOM
Fig.8 Seven-level PSCPWM output
Fig 8 shows the seven level inverter output with Phase shifted Carrier pulse width
modulation. From the Fig we can clearly observe the seven voltage levels.

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Fig 9: Matlab/Simulink Model of Nonlinear load with Five level Cascaded multilevel
DSTATCOM
The performance of the proposed instantaneous real-power compensator cascaded seven level
multilevel inverter based DSTATCOM is evaluated through Matlab/Simulink tools. The non-
linear diode rectifier R-L load is connected with ac mains and cascaded active filter is
connected in parallel at the PCC for injecting the anti-harmonics and eliminating the
harmonics and improving the Reactive power.
Fig 10: Source voltage, Source current, Load current with DSTATCOM
respectively with Cascaded Multilevel five level Active power filter. It is clear that with
DSTATCOM load current are same and source currents are compensated.Fig.11 shows the
harmonic spectrum of Phase –A Source current without DSTATCOM. The THD of source
current without DSTATCOM is 36.89%.

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Fig.11 Harmonic spectrum of Phase-A Source current without DSTATCOM
Fig. 12 Harmonic spectrum of Phase-A Source current with Seven level PSPWM -
DSTATCOM
Fig12 shows the harmonic spectrum of Phase –A Source current with cascaded Multilevel
Seven level PSCPWM with DSTATCOM. The THD of source current with Seven level
DSTATCOM is 4.37%.
Fig 13 shows the power factor waveforms of the designed system without DSTATCOM. The
waveform clearly shows that there is no unity power factor.
Fig 13: Power Factor without DSTATCOM

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Fig 14: Unity power Factor with DSTATCOM
Fig 14 shows the power factor waveforms of the designed system with DSTATCOM. The
waveform clearly shows that there is unity power factor where both the voltage and current
are in phase.
Case-3 Level shifted carrier PWM technique results
Fig. 15 shows the phase-A voltage of Seven level output of level shifted carrier PWM
inverter.
Fig. 15 Seven level LSCPWM output
respectively with Cascaded Multilevel Seven level LSCPWM - DSTATCOM. It is clear that
with DSTATCOM load current are same and source currents are compensated.

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Fig 16: Source voltage, Source current, Load current with Seven level LSPWM –
DSTATCOM
Fig 17. shows the harmonic spectrum of Phase –A Source current with cascaded Multilevel
Seven level LSPWM - DSTATCOM. The THD of source current with seven level
DSTATCOM is 4.37%.
Fig. 17 Harmonic spectrum of Phase-A Source current with DSTATCOM

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Table-II Comparison between the PSCPWM and LSCPWM schemes and System
Specifications are
Comparison PSPW
M
LSPWM S.No System Parameters Rating
switching
frequency
Same
for all
devices
Different 1 voltage 11kv,50Hz
conduction
period
Same
for all
devices
Different 2 Inductance 0.9e-3h
Rotating of
switching
patterns
Not
required
Required 3 Resistance 0.1ohm
THD of
Source
Current
4.37% 2.82% 4 Load R=60,L=30e-3
5 Inverter Parameters DC Link
voltage=14kv
CONCLUSION
A seven level cascaded multilevel voltage source inverter based DSTATCOM using
instantaneous real-power controller is found to be an effective solution for power line
conditioning. DSTATCOM with the proposed controller reduces harmonics and provides
reactive power compensation due to non-linear load currents; as a result source current(s)
become sinusoidal and unity power factor is also achieved under both transient and steady
state conditions. The proposed instantaneous real-power controller uses reduced computation
for reference current calculations compared to conventional approach. The cascaded inverter
switching signals are generated using triangular-sampling current controller; it provides a
dynamic performance under transient and steady state conditions. As evident from the
simulation studies, dc bus capacitor voltage settles early and has minimal ripple because of
the presence of PI-controller. The THD of the source current is investigated for both
PSCPWM and LSCPWM for a seven level inverter based DSTATCOM. THD simulation
results under non-linear loads are investigated and found that the LSCPWM results are better
than PSCPWM.
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AUTHORS
Mr. D. Mohan Reddy received the B.Tech. Degree in Electrical and
Electronics Engineering from the JNT University, Hyderabad, India and he
received the M.E Power Systems Engineering from Anna University Chennai
and presently pursuing PhD from S.V.University,Tirupati,India. Presently he
is working as an Associate Professor in the department of Electrical and
Electronics Engineering in Sri Vasavi Institute of Engineering and
Technology, Machilipatnam. His research areas of interests are power
electronic converters, electrical drives and power quality.
Dr T. Gowri Manohar received the B.Tech, M.Tech, and PhD Degrees
in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the S.V.University, Tirupati,
India. Presently he is working as an Associate Professor in the department of
Electrical and Electronics Engineering S.V.University, Tirupati, India. He is
having 15 years of teaching experience and he was published 60 numbers of
various international and national conferences & journals. He is a senior
Member of IEEE and also he is a member in Indian Society for Technical
Education. His research areas of interests are Modern restructured power
systems, electrical drives and power quality and harmonics –issues & challenges.

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