EX-702 (B) · HVDC & FACTS/Official Syllabus
HVDC & FACTS (EX-702 (B)) - Official Syllabus
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Unit 1
Facts concepts
- Reactive power control in electrical power transmission
- principles of conventional reactive power compensators
- Introduction to FACTS, flow of power in AC parallel paths, meshed systems
- basic types of FACTS controllers, definitions of FACTS controllers
- brief description of FACTS controllers
2
Unit 2
Static shunt and series compensators
- Shunt compensation 013 objectives of shunt compensation
- methods of controllable VAR generation
- static VAR compensators 013 SVC, STATCOM
- SVC and STATCOM comparison
- Series compensation 013 objectives of series compensation
- thyristor switched series capacitors (TCSC)
- static series synchronous compensator (SSSC)
- power angle characteristics
- basic operating control schemes
3
Unit 3
Combined compensators
- Unified power flow controller (UPFC) 013 Introduction
- operating principle, independent real and reactive power flow controller and control structure
- Interline power flow controller (IPFC)
- Introduction to Active power filtering
- Concepts relating to Reactive power compensation and harmonic current compensation using Active power filters
4
Unit 4
HVDC transmission
- HVDC Transmission system: Introduction
- comparison of AC and DC systems, applications of DC transmission
- types of DClinks
- Layout of HVDC Converter station and various equipments
- HVDC Converters, analysis of bridge converters with and without overlap
- inverter operation, equivalent circuit representation of rectifier and inverter configurations
5
Unit 5
Control of HVDC system
- Principles of control, desired features of control
- converter control characteristics
- power reversal
- Ignition angle control, current and extinction angle control
- Harmonics introduction, generation, ac filters and dc filters
- Introduction to multiterminal DC systems and applications
- comparison of series and parallel MTDC systems
- Voltage Source Converter based HVDC systems
Reference Books
- Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS)
- Thyristor 013 based FACTS controllers for Electrical Transmission systems
- FACTS controllers for Transmission and Distribution systems
- FACTS 013Modeling and simulation in Power Networks
- High voltage Direct Current Transmission
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