VINAYAKA MISSIONS UNIVERSITY

V.M.K.V.EMGINEERING COLLEGE, SALEM M.E. (POWER SYSTEMS ENGINEERING) Elective IV : FLEXIBLE AC TRANSMISSION SYSTEM
UNIT I :

INTRODUCTION

Part - A
1. What is a Static VAR compensator? 2. What is the need of FACTS controller? 3. What is fixed series compensation? 4. What is fixed shunt compensation? 5. What are the disadvantages of series capacitor? 6. Write the advantages of SVC dynamic characteristics. 7. Explain the need for a reactor in series with capacitor in TCR. 8. Compare fixed series compensation with series compensation. 9. What is STATCOM? 10. What are the advantages of Thyristor Switched Series Capacitor? 11. What is FACTS? 12. What are the advantages of FACTS? 13. Differentiate between TCR and TCS. 14. Draw a schematic representation of SVC. 15. What do you meant by static condenser? 16. Define phase angle regulator. 17. What is thyristor controlled series capacitor? 18. Define resonance damper. 19. List the types of controller employed in FACTS. 20. Distinguish between VAR and SVC.

Part - B
1. Briefly explain about FACTS and list the advantage, disadvantage, features and applications. 2. Draw and explain with neat sketch the principles and operation of thyristor controlled series capacitor. 3. Explain the operation of a single phase TCR with a circuit diagram. 4. Explain the operating characteristics of a TCR (i) without voltage control and (ii) with voltage control. 5. Explain the operation of three Phase TGR with circuit diagram. 6. Explain series compensation and shunt compensation with necessary equivalent circuits and phasor diagrams.
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Explain the operation of TCSC with circuit diagrams.

8. Define resonance with neat sketch explain about resonant damping conditions. 9. How the regulator control the phase voltage from input to load. 10. Explain the different types of controller are used in AC transmission.

UNIT II: SERIES COMPENSATION SCHEMES Part - A

1. What is the difference between shunt and series compensation? 2. What is Sub Synchronous Resonance? 3. What is SSR damping? 4. What are the operating modes of TCSC? 5. What is enhanced Current Control? 6. What is meant by TCSC concept? 7. Define system stability. 8. Define system damping. 9. What is meant by enhanced power control strategies of TCSC? 10. Define variable reactance? 11. Define ASC damping. 12. Give the compression between ASC and NGH damping. 13. What do you meant by modeling? 14. Define the term thyristor controlled series compensator. 15. Define torque and list the types of torque. 16. Define the term compensation of conventional. 17. What is need of sub synchronous resonance? 18. Give the compression between torsional interaction and torsional torque. 19. What is the need of damping? 20. Define Synchronous.

Part - B
1) Explain the basic concept of TCSC and its operating modes. 2) Briefly explain about the method of modeling of thyristor controlled series compensator. 3) List the types of controlling technique of series compensator by using thyristor controller. Explain any one. 4) Derive the expression to obtain the torsional torque during compensation. 5) Give short notes on different types of damping scheme and explain each. 6) What is the principle of operation of sub synchronous resonance with neat expression. 7) Explain the variable reactance and transient stability models of TCSC. 8) Discuss constant current and constant angle of TCSC. 9) Explain constant power and enhanced power control strategies of TCSC. 10) Explain how the system stability and system damping can be improved by TCSC.

UNIT III: UNIFIED POWER FLOW CONTROL Part - A

1) List the implementation methods of unified power flow controller. 2) What do you meant by power flow control? 3) What is the need of unified power flow control? 4) Give short notes on concept of unified power flow. 5) Write down the disadvantage of conventional thyristor power flow control. 6) List out the application of power flow controller. 7) What is Unified power flow? 8) What is STATCOM? 9) What is SSSC? 10) What are the switching devices used in STATCOM? 11) What is Inter Phase Controller? 12) What are the switching devices used in SSSC? 13) What are the advantages of STATCOM? 14) What are advantages of SSSC? 15) List out the advantages of conventional thyristor power flow control. 16) Draw the diagram which represents the UPFC in a two machine power system. 17) Draw the phasor diagram which represents the conventional transmission control capabilities of the UPFC. 18) Write short note on independent real and reactive power flow control. 19) Compare UPFC to controlled series compensators. 20) Compare UPFC to controlled phase angle regulators.

Part - B
1) Explain the implementation of power flow control using conventional thyristors with at least two types of controllers along with the characteristics of them 2) Explain the unified power flow controller concept and its implementation. 3) Compare the performance of conventional thyristor controller and unified power flow Controllers.

4) Explain the principle and operation of STATCOM. 5) Explain the principle and operation of SSSC. 6) How to implement power flow control technique in a power system. Explain with sketch. 7) Briefly explain about the difference between conventional power flow control and unified power flow control. 8) List out the recent technique to implement the unified power flow controller. 9) Explain in detail about independent real and reactive power flow control. 10) Compare the UPFC to series compensators and phase angle regulators.

UNIT IV: DESIGN OF FACTS CONTROLLERS Part - A

1) What is TCBR? 2) What is coordination of FACTS controllers? 3) What is meant SMES? 4) What is meant BESS? 5) Multi-modal decomposition is based on which standard type of controller ? 6) What are the different control techniques used for coordinating FACTS controllers? 7) Compare SVC-SVC interactions in power system. 8) Compare SVC-HVDC interactions in power system. 9) Compare TSSC-TCSC interactions in power system. 10) What is multi- modal decomposition formulation? 11) Define decomposition. 12) What you understand by multi model decomposition. 13) What is a need of transient stability in power system? 14) Express the condition of transient stability. 15) Draw a diagram of non linear Variable Structure FACTS controller. 16) What the role of series capacitor control in FACTS controller? 17) How the resistor controller is differing from series capacitor controller? 18) Draw a basic diagram of variable structure resistor control of FACTS controller. 19) Draw the basic TSSC scheme. 20) Draw the basic structure of TCSC.

Part - B
1) Briefly explain about variable structure FACTS controller. 2) Define transient stability and describe any one method of FACTS controller for power system transient stability. 3) Draw and explain the complete operation of series capacitor control transient stability operation. 4) Discuss about the TSSC-TCSC interactions in power system operation. 5) Explain the approximate multi- modal decomposition formulation and discuss the model Characteristics and control influence. 6) Discuss about the SVC SVC interactions in power system operation 7) How the variable structure resistor control achieve the transient stability in a power system. 8) Discuss about the SVC- HVDC interactions in power system operation. 9) Explain about the SVC- TCSC interactions in power system operation. 10) Explain about the TCSC- TCSC interactions in power system operation.

UNIT-V : STATIC VAR COMPENSATION

Part - A
1) What are the advantages of TCR? 2) What is meant by Switching? 3) Define TSR. 4) Define saturation. 5) Differentiate between TSR and TSC. 6) What are the applications of VAR? 7) What is meant by saturated reactor? 8) What is meant by compensation? 9) Define triggering. 10) What is meant by VAR compensation? 11) What are the methods used for Static VAR compensation technique? 12) Define TCR. 13) Give the comparisons between TCR and TSR. 14) Write the basic concepts of SVC. 15) What is the need saturated reactor? 16) List out the advantage of fixed capacitor. 17) What is a need of reactor in a power system? 18) What is switched capacitor? 19) What is the need of VAR? 20) How the controlled reactor is differing from reactor?

Part - B
1) Explain about Thyristor controlled reactor. 2) Give a detailed explanation about fixed capacitor. 3) Explain about Thyristor switched reactor. 4) Explain briefly about Thyristor switched capacitor. 5) Explain about saturated reactor. 6) Give the comparison between controlled reactor and saturated reactor. 7) Draw diagram and compare thyristor reactor and thyristor switched reactor with characteristics. 8) Briefly explain the fundamentals of static VAR compensation in a power system. List out the advantages, disadvantages and applications. 9) Compare STATCOM and SVC 10) Draw and Explain the functional control scheme for the TSC-TCR type static VAR generator.