Diagnosis Method for GTO Open Switch FaultApplied to Reconfigurable Three-Level 48-PulseSTATCOM

Type : Publication
Auteur(s) :  Omar Fethi BENAOUDA, Azzedine BENBIABDELLAH, Bilal Djamal Eddine CHERIF
Année :  2019
Domaine : Electrotechnique
Revue : ADVANCES IN ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING
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Mots clés :  Detection, diagnosis, FACTS, GTO, open switch fault, recon?guration, SSAS, STATCOM

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In the recent years, several research worksare focusing on the use of STATCOM in electrical net-works because it is used to regulate the voltage, to im-prove the dynamic stability of the power system be-sides allowing better management of the power ?ow.All these positive tasks have guaranteed an importantposition of STATCOM within a family of Flexible Al-ternating Current Transmission System (FACTS). Inthis paper study, the control and operation of a threelevels 48-pulse GTO based STATCOM is implementedwith series connected transformers. The system may,unfortunately, be prone to GTO switch faults and there-fore may a?ect reactive power transiting. In this pa-per, a new diagnostic approach is proposed based onthe Single-Sided Amplitude Spectrum (SSAS) methodof the three-leg converter currents for detection and lo-calization of open-circuit faults. The integration of theSTATCOM recon?gurable fault tolerant to the systemis also considered to ensure service continuity. Sev-eral results are presented and discussed in this paperto illustrate the performance of the STATCOM fault-tolerant diagnostic.