Analysis and Performance of a Fixed Filter-Thyristor Controlled Reactor (FF-TCR) Compensator
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- 1 May 1987
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
- Vol. 2 (2) , 303-309
Abstract
A fixed Filter-Thyristor Controlled Reactor (FF-TCR) type of compensator is proposed to improve the power factor of a single phase thyristor-controlled inductive load and it is shown that this compensator gives better power factor improvement than the more generally used FC-TCR type of compensator. Analysis is carried out for the exact equivalent circuit of an FF-TCR compensator containing two filter branches tuned to the third and the fifth harmonics respectively. It is shown that with an FF-TCR compensator the power factor improvement is much better when the source impedance is large. However, even with a small source impedance, a reasonable improvement in power factor is realised. It is further shown that even when the source impedance is large the distortion in the terminal voltage waveform is kept within reasonable limits. The analytical results are verified experimentally.Keywords
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