Static Var Compensator May 14, 2013
09 September, 2017
May 14, 2013
Swearingen Engineering Center (Swearingen 1A03)
University of South Carolina
301 S. Main St., Columbia, SC
Presenter:
Mr. Gholamreza Dehnavi, Ph. D. Student
Electrical Engineering
University of South Carolina
Static Var Compensator
Abstract: “Large growth of power system size and capacity necessitates application of Flexible AC Transmission Systems to increase reliability and improve performance of the grid. Among FACTS devices, Static Var Compensator has the most application with more than a thousand installations in the world both in distribution and transmission systems. This lecture is an introduction to different types of SVC along with their application as well as a comparison in terms of performance, cost and reliability.”