Unified Power Quality Conditioner (UPQC)
Unified Power Quality Conditioner (UPQC)
Unified power quality conditioners (UPQC) allow the mitigation of voltage
and current disturbances that could affect sensitive electrical loads while
compensating the load reactive power. Unified power quality conditioners UPQC
consist of combined series and shunt active power filters for simultaneous
compensation of voltage and current disturbances and reactive power. The basic structure
of this equipment is shown in Figure.
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| Figure-1: Unified Power Quality Conditioner (UPQC) |
- It reduces the harmonics in the supply current, so that it can improves utility current quality for nonlinear loads.
- UPQC provides the VAR requirement of the load, so that the supply voltage and current are always in phase, therefore, no additional power factor correction equipment is required.
- UPQC maintains load end voltage at the rated value even in the presence of supply voltage sag.
- The voltage injected by UPQC to maintain the load end voltage at the desired value which is taken from the same dc link, thus no additional dc link voltage support is required for the series compensator.
The UPQC is expected to be one of
the most powerful solutions to large capacity loads sensitive to supply voltage
and load current disturbances or unbalance condition. The most effective type
of these devices is considered to be the Unified Power Quality Conditioner
(UPQC). There are numerous reasons why the UPQC is preferred over the others.
UPQC is much flexible than any single inverter based device [15]. It can
simultaneously correct for the unbalance and distortion in the source voltage
and load current where as all other devices either correct current or voltage
distortion. Therefore the purpose of two devices is served by UPQC only. Based
on these reasons, the UPQC is widely considered as an effective custom power
device in mitigating voltage sags and swells. In addition to voltage sags and
swell compensation, UPQC can also add other features such as harmonics and power
factor correction.
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