A comprehensive approach to the design of UPFC controllers (power-flow controller, DC-voltage regulator and damping controller) is presented. Studies reveal that damping is adversely affected by the incorporation of a DC-voltage regulator. Investigations were carried out to understand the relative effectiveness of modulation of thc UPFC control signals inR, SB, niE and <5£ on damping of the sys...

In this paper, the optimal design of supplementary controller parameters of a unified powerflow controller(UPFC) for damping low-frequency oscillations in a weakly connected systemis investigated. The individual design of the UPFC controller, using hybrid particle swarmoptimization and gravitational search algorithm (PSOGSA)technique under 3 loadingoperating conditions, is discussed. The effect...

Unified power flow controller (UPFC) is one of the most effective flexible AC transmission systems (FACTS) devices for enhancing power system security. However, to what extent the performance of UPFC can be brought out, it highly depends upon the location and parameter setting of this device in the system. This paper presents a new approach based on computational intelligence (CI) techniques to...

Abstract: Unified power flow controller (UPFC) consists two converters. There are three purposes of this paper, firstly to illustrate the UPFC device based VSC designs, then to describe a decoupling method the UPFC’s controller into two separate control systems of the shunt and the series converters respectively in realizing an appropriate co-ordination between them. Finally, using the Matlab t...

Congestion management (CM) is one of the most important and challenging tasks of the Independent System Operator (ISO) in the deregulated environment. Recently, Sen Transformer (ST) has emerged as an important power flow control device which has the capability of power flow control over a wide range like UPFC. This device with a conventional transformer and tap changers has the capability of bi...

On the basis of the linearized Phillips-Herffron model of a single-machine power system, a novel method for designing unified power flow controller (UPFC) based output feedback controller is presented. The design problem of output feedback controller for UPFC is formulated as an optimization problem according to with the time domain-based objective function which is solved by iteration particle...

Wind power is the fastest growing renewable source of electrical energy hence it has become necessary to address problems associated with maintaining a stable electric power system. The wind generated power is always fluctuating due to its time varying nature and causing stability problem. Unified Power Flow Controller (UPFC) is used to control the power flow in the transmission systems by cont...

Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS) is granting a new group of advanced power electronic devices emerging for enhancement of the power system performance. Unified Power Flow Controller (UPFC) is a recent version of FACTS devices for power system applications. The back-up energy supply system incorporated with UPFC is providing a complete control of real and reactive power at the same time ...

This paper utilizes the application of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Genetic Algorithm (GA) techniques to find the most appropriate locations of Unified Power Flow Controller (UPFC) with optimum cost of generation for loadability limit and minimum active power loss, while satisfying the power system constraints. Two objective functions are taken as the indexes of the system performance:...