Abstract—The Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS) technology is a new advanced solution that increases the reliability and provides more flexibility, controllability, and stability of a power system. The Unified Power Flow Controller (UPFC), as the most versatile FACTS device for regulating power flow, is able to control respectively transmission line real power, reactive power, and node vol...

In this paper a hybrid method for improving the dynamic stability of the power system using UPFC is proposed. The novelty of the proposed method is combined performance of the Bat-inspired algorithm and Firefly Algorithm (FA), which provides improved searching ability, automatic subdivision and random reduction. Here, the bat-inspired algorithm optimizes the maximum power loss bus while the gen...

Optimal power flow (OPF) study is conducted on a power system to achieve one of the following objectives: cost/loss minimization or available transfer capability (ATC) calculation in a deregulated environment. Distributed generation (DG) is a small source of electric power conversion from nonconventional energy sources and Hybrid DGs which often the most cost-effective and reliable way to produ...

Enhancement of stability of the power system has been achieved by the application of Unified power flow controller (UPFC) device with an additional supplementary controller. This supplementary damping controller can be installed on any control channel of the UPFC inputs to implement the task of power oscillation damping (POD) controller. We have presented a comprehensive assessment and performe...

One of the best flexible AC transmission system (FACTS) is unified power flow controller (UPFC). As it gets more benefit from both real and reactive transfer, used in for controlling transmitted power. The UPFC controls on side system. When as well set tries to follow command by using proportional integral (PI) controller. But some systems PI controllers cannot produce proper due oscillations. ...

FACTS devices plays a significant role to control the power flow of power transmission system. In this paper, a hybrid PSO algorithm is proposed to optimize the location of UPFC in power system. The proposed hybrid PSO algorithm has solved the formulated multiobjective optimization problem. This paper, five objective function to be considered in the form of minimization such as the fast voltage...

This paper describes and validates transient stability and power flow model of a Unified Power Flow Controller (UPFC), and presents a detailed comparison of different controls strategies, proposing novel, efficient and simple controls for this controller. The proposed model accurately represents the behavior of the controller in quasi-steady state operating conditions, and hence is adequate for...

This paper presents the genetic optimization of the parameters of a fuzzy PI controller for UPFC( Unified Power flow controller) using an improved genetic algorithm to enhance the transient stability performance of power systems. The function based Takagi-Sugeno-Kang (TSK) fuzzy controller uses minimum number of rules(hvo rules) and generates the proportional action which by one-to-two inferenc...

A unified power flow controller (UPFC) based on the flying capacitor (FC) multilevel voltage-source converter (VSC) topology with phase-shifted sinusoidal pulse-width modulation (PWM) control is presented. This converter allows higher power handling, potentially lower power loss, lower harmonic distortion and hence less filtering requirements when compared with the typical two-level counterppar...