Power Quality Enhancement for A Grid Connected Wind Turbine System

In this project, the harmonics present in the system has been reduced and the voltage dip has been mitigated. The method used to overcome these problems were the use of STATCOM controller to reduce the harmonics and TCSC system to mitigate the dip in voltage. The harmonics were reduced in the system from 0.70% to 0.69% in the wind turbine system. Harmonics in the source has been reduced from 6.9% to 0%. The reduction also takes place in the non-linear load from 29.29% to 27.88%. The TCSC system reduced the voltage dip from 30% to 0%. For future work, a controller could be designed which reduces harmonics of more that one nature since different wind turbines use different generators to convert mechanical energy to electrical energy.