Control of an Power Series Compensator in Distribution Systems Using Artificial Neural Networks

Abstract

Because of the bad effect exercised on electrical customers, the term “power quality” has gained significant attention. The main purpose ofSeries Active Power Filter (SAPF) is to protect the sensitive loads from the voltage harmonics only, while Dynamic Voltage Restored (DVR) can protect the consumer from supply voltage sag, voltage swell,voltage unbalance, and even voltage interruption. This paper is concerned with the novel active voltage compensator (AVC) which can compensate all voltage disturbances. To identify voltage disturbances, many techniques are used, this work is an attempt to provide a AVC with identification method based on The Multilayer Feed Forward Neural Network (MLFFN). The simulation results during several cases confirmed that the AVC is able to eliminate all voltagedisturbances from utility grid.

Keywords

• AVC
• Power Quality
• Voltage Sag
• Voltage Swell
• Harmonics voltage
• Multilayer Feed Forward Neural Network