Because of its undoubted advantages, the Thyristor Controlled Series Capacitor (TCSC) is one most widely used power-electronic controllers in power systems. However, TCSC has also been a cause concern protective relaying because impact on impedance seen by conventional distance relays, which may lead to an incorrect assessment fault and, consequently, erroneous relay tripping. To overcome these...

In today’s restructured environment, congestion management plays an essential role in power system operation. Different methods are presented and discussed in this respect for congestion management in short-term and long-term intervals. It is attempted in the present paper to investigate the impact mechanism of FACTS devices and demand response programs together with generation re-dispatch as s...

The proliferation of compensators, due to their nonlinear characteristics raises concern over the distortion levels they cause in voltages and currents at the transmission level. In this paper, series compensation by Thyristor Controlled Series Capacitor (TCSC) and shunt compensation by STATCOM are investigated in terms of power quality and their effects on protective relays behavior. For each ...

Research effort has been given to find the optimal location and initial settings of Thyristor-Controlled Series Capacitor (TCSC) using Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP). As a useful tool for combinatorial optimisation over integer and continuous variables, mixed-integer programming approach can provides robust performance as well as high computation efficiency when solving complex optimal...

this paper focuses on multi-objective designing of multi-machine thyristor controlled series compensator (tcsc) using strength pareto evolutionary algorithm (spea). the tcsc parameters designing problem is converted to an optimization problem with the multi-objective function including the desired damping factor and the desired damping ratio of the power system modes, which is solved by a spea ...

Abstract Preventing the power system from becoming overloaded and under stress to point where it is on verge of reaching limits its transient stability due high consumption. This paper proposed dynamic security assessment for using Thyristor controlled series capacitor (TCSC) devices controller. The criteria are based severity indices analyzing fault in system. index uses time domain analysis s...

This paper presents a study of the performance of numerical distance relay for a 400 kV electrical transmission line compensated by series Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS) i.e. Thyristor Controlled Series Capacitor (TCSC) is connected in the middle of the transmission line and can be used in voltage mode control or reactive power injection mode, and damping of power system oscillations i...

Multi-phase (employing phases more than three) power transmission systems have been investigated as a potential alternative to conventional three-phase systems for bulk power transmission at EHV and UHV levels in the past. The technology has been found to be effective to remove some of the limitations of threephase system arising out of the use of extremely high voltages to increase power capab...

this paper investigates the islands formation in initial stages of restoration process in blackout condition and studies the impacts of islands number variation on the process execution. in addition, a method is proposed to determining each island optimal boundaries. then the effects of transmission lines thyistor controlled series compensators (tcsc) to facilitate restoration process and impro...

A basic conceptual study of TCSC device on Simulink is a teaching aid and helps in understanding the rudiments of the topic. This paper thus stems out from basics of TCSC device and analyzes the impedance characteristics and associated single & multi resonance conditions. The Impedance characteristics curve is drawn for different values of inductance in MATLAB using M-files. The study is also h...