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The Static Synchronous Series Compensator (SSSC)

The SSSC injects a controllable voltage in series with a transmission line to provide voltage compensation. It consists of a voltage source inverter coupled with a transformer connected in series. This allows it to inject an almost sinusoidal voltage and provide inductive or capacitive reactance to control power flow. The SSSC transfers both active and reactive power to maintain high effective series compensation independent of the degree of compensation. Its internal control synchronizes the injected voltage to the line current using a phase-locked loop and phase shifter to determine the proper capacitive or inductive reference voltage.

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The Static Synchronous Series Compensator (SSSC)

The SSSC injects a controllable voltage in series with a transmission line to provide voltage compensation. It consists of a voltage source inverter coupled with a transformer connected in series. This allows it to inject an almost sinusoidal voltage and provide inductive or capacitive reactance to control power flow. The SSSC transfers both active and reactive power to maintain high effective series compensation independent of the degree of compensation. Its internal control synchronizes the injected voltage to the line current using a phase-locked loop and phase shifter to determine the proper capacitive or inductive reference voltage.

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The Static Synchronous Series

Compensator (SSSC)
• An SSSC is a kind of flexible ac transmission system, which
consists of a solid-state voltage source inverter coupled
with a transformer that is connected in series with a
transmission line.
• This device could inject an almost sinusoidal voltage in
series with the line.
• This injected voltage could be considered as an inductive or
capacitive reactance, which is connected in series with the
transmission line.
• This feature can provide controllable voltage
compensation.
• SSSC consist of a voltage source converter with a dc
storage capacitor which is connected in series to a
transmission line for compensation.
• It will inject a voltage to the transmission line thus it
can provide necessary compensation.
• It can transfer both active and reactive power to the
system, permitting it to compensate for the resistive
and reactive voltage drops maintaining high effective
X/R that is independent of the degree of series
compensation.
Power Flow in SSSC
• The series capacitive compensation works by
increasing the voltage across the impedance of
the given physical line, which in turn increases
the corresponding line current and the
transmitted power.

• SSSC injects the compensating voltage in series


with the line irrespective of the line current.
• Let us consider a simple system with
transmission line connected to constant
voltage source at the two ends.

• The voltage drop across the line (see phasor


diagram) is given by,

• The magnitude of the current is obtained as,


• The power flow (P) in the line is given by,

• The reactive power supplied at the two ends of


the line are equal (Q). The expression for Q is
given by,

• The line current with variable series


compensation is given by,

• This shows that only way of power reversal is by


increasing the compensation level, Kse above 1.
Internal Control
• From the standpoint of output voltage control,
converters may be categorized as "directly" and
"indirectly" controlled.
• For directly controlled converters both the angular
position and the magnitude of the output voltage
are controllable by appropriate valve (on and off)
gating.
• For indirectly controlled converters only the angular
position of the output voltage is controllable by
valve gating; the magnitude remains proportional to
the de terminal voltage.
• The inputs to the internal control are: the line
current i, the injected compensating voltage
vq , and the reference Vq .
• The control is synchronized to the line current
by a phase-locked loop which, after a +90 or
-90 phase shift, provides the basic
synchronizing signal theta.
• The phase shifter is operated from the output
of a polarity detector which determines
whether reference Vq is positive (capacitive)
or negative (inductive).

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