EE167 Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS)

L-T-P-Cr: 3 - 0 -0-3
Objective: Good understanding of various kinds of FACTS devices. Understanding of significance and
practical application of FACTS.
Prerequisite: Power Electronics, Power System-1
Outcome: Students will be able to understand application of Facts devices to power control
Syllabus
Unit 1. Introduction: Opportunities for FACTS, Basic types of facts controllers, brief description &definition
of FACTS controllers’ 1-lecture
Unit 2. Voltage source converters: basic concepts, 1-lecture
Unit 3. Static shunt compensators: (SVC and STATCON) objectives of shunt compensation, static VAR
compensators, Comparison between STATECON & SVC 7-lecture
Unit 4. Statics series compensators: TSSC, TCSC and SSSC, Objective of series compensation, variable
impedance type series compensation, variable impedance type series comparators, switching convertor
type series comparators 11-lecture
Unit 5. Static voltage and phase angle regulators: TCVR & TCPAR objectives of voltage and phase angle
Regulators, Approaches to thyristor-controlled voltage and phase angle regulators (TCVRS and TCPARS) 9-
lecture
Unit 6. Combined compensators: UPFC&IPFC: introduction the UPFC, the IPFC, generalized and
multifunctional, FACTS controllers 12-lecture

Suggested Readings:
1. R M Mathur and Rajvib K Verma, Thyristor based FACTS Controllers for Electrical Transmission, Wiley
IEEE Press

2. N G Hingorani and L Gyugyi , Understanding FACTS, IEEE Press

3. J Arrillaga, N R Watson and S Chen, Power System Quality Assessment, Wiley India
4. C Sankaran, Power Quality, CRC Press
5. Ariandam Ghosh and G Ledwich, Power Quality Enhancement using Custom Power Devices, Penguin
Books.