Circulating Current Suppression Strategies for D-STATCOM Based on Modular Multilevel Converters

Heverton Pereira

UFV

Heverton A. Pereira (M’12) has been a Ph.D. in FederalUniversity of Minas Gerais, Brazil, and a guest Ph.D. inthe Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University,Denmark. He joined Federal University of Viçosa, Departmentof Electric Engineering in 2009 as assistant professor. Hisareas of interests are grid interconnection of wind and solarpower plants.

Abstract

This work focuses on the circulating current measurement of a STAtic synchronous COMpensator (STATCOM) based on Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC). In a Delta (D) connected MMC-based STATCOM configuration the currents are... [ view full abstract ]

Authors

  1. Heverton Pereira (UFV)
  2. Marcos Haddioui (Aalborg University)
  3. Luís Oliveira (UFV)
  4. Laszlo Mathe (Aalborg University)
  5. Massimo Bongiorno (CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY)
  6. Remus Teodorescu (Aalborg University)

Topic Areas

Multilevel and Matrix Power Converters , Power Converters for HVDC , FACTS

Session

OP-2A » Multilevel Converters I (14:00 - Monday, 30th November, Rubi)