COMPUTER SIMULATION AN TESTING OF A STATIC REACTIVE POWER COMPENSATOR

Heavy industrial loads having random, erratic and unbalanced changes in their real and reactive power requirement may cause considerable disturbances atthe point ofcommon coupling in the supply system Static reactive power Compensators have been employed in manyindustrial placations throughout the world Iorl.d to compensate for disturbances described and for the low lagging power factor associated with heavy inductive loads. A personal computer has been used for simulating a new configuration of Thyristor Switched Capacitor compensator system coupled with simulation of a reactive power measurement unit, and a heavy inductive randomly varying power system load Computed bus voltage variations are processed by flicker meter software developed by the U.K K. Electricity council for use in industry.