| Title |
Reactive Power Compensator for Pulsed Power Electric Network of International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor |
| Authors |
Hyunsik Jo ; Jongmin Jo ; Hanju Cha |
| DOI |
10.6113/TKPE/2015.20.3.290 |
| Keywords |
ITER; Reactive power compensation; RTDS |
| Abstract |
Analysis and verification of reactive power compensator (RPC) for ITER pulsed power electric network (PPEN) are described in this paper. The RPC system is rated for a nominal power of 250 Mvar necessary to comply with the allowable reactive power limit value from the grid 200 Mvar. This system is currently under construction and is based on static var compensation technology with a thyristor-controlled reactor and a harmonic filter. The RPC minimizes reactive power from grid using prediction of reactive power consumption of AC-DC converters. The feasibility of the reactive power compensation was verified by assembling a real controller and implementing ITER PPEN in the real time digital simulator for the hardware-in-loop facility. When maximum reactive power is reached, grid voltage is stabilized and maximum reactive power decreased from 120 Mvar to 40 Mvar via the reactive power prediction method. |