Syllabus

Module1:

Introduction to FACTS: FACTS Concept and general system consideration: Transmission Interconnections, Flow of Power in AC Systems, Loading capability, Power flow and Dynamic Stability Considerations of a transmission interconnection, Relative Importance of Controllable Parameters, Basic types of FACTS Controller. .
4 Hours

Module2:

Shunt Compensation : Static Shunt Compensators: Objectives of Shunt Compensation, Methods of Controllable VAR Generation, Static VAR Compensators: SVC and STATCOM, Comparison between STATCOM and SVC,
12 Hours

Module3:
Series Compensation: Static Series Compensators: Objectives of Series Compensation, Variable Impedance type Series Compensators, Switching Converter type Series Compensators, External Control for Series Reactive Compensators
10 Hours

Module4:
Angle Compensation: Static Voltage and Phase angle Regulators: Objective of Voltage and phase angle regulators, Approaches to Thyristor-controlled voltage and phase angle regulators, switching converter-based voltage and phase angle regulators, Hybrid phase angle regulators.
4 Hours

Module 5:
Combined Compensation: Combined Compensators: Unified power flow controller (UPFC) and Interline power flow controller (IPFC)
6 Hours

Understand the concepts of Flexible Power Transmission

Understand Ideal shunt and practical shunt compensation using Thyristors (TCR) and Bridge Converters (STATCOM)

Understand the concepts of ideal series, practical series using Thyristors (TCSC) and Converters (SSSC)

Understand the concepts of Transient Stability Enhancement and Power Oscillation Damping using shunt and series compensation

CO1: Classify the FACTS devices into Thyristor based and Converter based.

CO2: Insight into the Transient Stability Enhancement, Power Oscillation Damping, Transient Stability Margin.

CO3: Understanding the voltage and the current waveforms with respect to thyristors and the converters for both shunt and series compensation.

CO4: Understanding the dynamics of stability of voltage regulation using SVC and STATCOM with the variation of line reactance.


CO5: Conceptual understanding of independently controlling the active and the reactive power through circular control regions.

CO6: Insight into the sub synchronous oscillation damping and resonance for series compensated transmission lines. .

N.G.Hingorani & L.Gyugyi, Understanding FACTS: Concepts and Technology of Flexible AC Transmission Systems,, IEEE Press, 1999 , It is nice for essential reading and should be used as the base text book

Y. H. Song and A. T. Johns, Flexible AC Transmission Systems, , IET, 1999. , It is a good text book

1. X.P. Zang, C. Rehtanz and B. Pal, Flexible AC Transmission Systems: Modeling and Control, Birkhauser, 2006. , It is fine for supplementary reading

Acha, Esquivel, Prez and Camacho, Modeling and simulation in power networks, Wiley India Private Limited, 2012 , It is a decent text book