Damping of inter-area electromechanical oscillations is one of the major challenges to the electric power system operators. This paper presents Gravitational Search Algorithm (GSA) for tuning Static Synchronous Series Compensator (SSSC) based damping controller to improve power system oscillation stability. In the proposed algorithm, the searcher agents are a collection of masses which interact...

The Static Synchronous Series Compensator (SSSC) is one of the recently developed Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS) devices. In this paper, the SSSC is realized using a 48-pulse voltage source inverter. Fuzzy logic controllers are designed to operate the SSSC in the automatic power flow control mode. The parameters of the fuzzy controllers are varied widely by a suitable choice of members...

The Static Synchronous Series Compensator (SSSC) is one of the powerful Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS) controller recognized for power flow, power oscillation damping and improving transient stability. This paper proposes controller that is a combination of Fuzzy Logic Power Oscillations Damping (FLPOD) controller with Proportional and Integral Power Flow (PIPF) controller for SSSC to ...

In this paper, a novel parameter design approach of the PI controller used for individual DC voltage balancing control of cascaded H-bridge converter-based STATic synchronous COMpensator(STATCOM) is presented. By means of phase shift sinusoidal pulse width modulation, using two control loops(DC voltage control loop and phase angle shift control loop) to ensure DC voltage balance, the proposed a...

Back-to-back static synchronous compensator (BtBSTATCOM) consists of two back-to-back voltage-source converters (VSC) with a common DC link in a substation. This configuration extends the capabilities of conventional STATCOM that bidirectional active power transfer from one bus to another is possible. In this paper, VSCs are designed in quasi multi-pulse form in which GTOs are triggered only on...

Power-system stability improvement by a static synchronous series compensator (SSSC)-based controller is studied in this paper. Conventionally, the lead-lag structure was used to modulate the injected voltage. But, in this paper, PID controller is also considered. The design problem of the proposed controller is formulated as an optimization problem and Differential Evolution Algorithm is used ...

The paper investigates the dynamic operation of both static synchronous compensator (STATCOM) and static synchronous series compensator (SSSC) based on a new full model comprising a 48pulse gate turn off thyristor voltage source converter for combined reactive power compensation and voltage stabilization of the electrical grid net work. The complete digital simulation of the STATCOM and SSSC wi...

The power system network is becoming more complex nowadays so maintaining the stability of the power system is very difficult. So we have designed a 12-pulse based Static Synchronous Series Compensator (SSSC) which is operated with and without integration of Superconducting Magnetic Energy Storage (SMES) for enhancing the voltage stability and power oscillation damping in multi area system. Con...

This paper proposes a static synchronous series compensator based on H-bridge inverter modules. Dynamic response of proposed system was analyzed by EMTP simulation, assuming that it is inserted in the 154-kV transmission line of one-machine-infinite-bus power system. The proposed system consists of 6 H-bridge inverter modules per phase, which generate 13 pulses for each half period of power fre...