Introduction to FACTS Controllers: Theory, Modeling, and Applications (Hardcover)

Demystifies FACTS controllers, offering solutions to power control and power flow problems

Flexible alternating current transmission systems (FACTS) controllers represent one of the most important technological advances in recent years, both enhancing controllability and increasing power transfer capacity of electric power transmission networks. This timely publication serves as an applications manual, offering readers clear instructions on how to model, design, build, evaluate, and install FACTS controllers. Authors Kalyan Sen and Mey Ling Sen share their two decades of experience in FACTS controller research and implementation, including their own pioneering FACTS design breakthroughs.

Readers gain a solid foundation in all aspects of FACTS controllers, including:

• Basic underlying theories

• Step-by-step evolution of FACTS controller development

• Guidelines for selecting the right FACTS controller

• Sample computer simulations in EMTP programming language

• Key differences in modeling such FACTS controllers as the voltage regulating transformer, phase angle regulator, and unified power flow controller

• Modeling techniques and control implementations for the three basic VSC-based FACTS controllers—STATCOM, SSSC, and UPFC

In addition, the book describes a new type of FACTS controller, the Sen Transformer, which is based on technology developed by the authors. An appendix presents all the sample models that are discussed in the book, and the accompanying FTP site offers many more downloadable sample models as well as the full-color photographs that appear throughout the book.

This book is essential reading for practitioners and students of power engineering around the world, offering viable solutions to the increasing problems of grid congestion and power flow limitations in electric power transmission systems.

解密FACTS控制器，提供解決電力控制和電力流動問題的解決方案。靈活交流輸電系統（FACTS）控制器代表了近年來最重要的技術進步之一，既增強了電力傳輸網絡的可控性，又提高了電力傳輸能力。這本及時出版的書籍作為一本應用手冊，為讀者提供了關於如何建模、設計、構建、評估和安裝FACTS控制器的清晰指導。作者Kalyan Sen和Mey Ling Sen分享了他們在FACTS控制器研究和實施方面的二十年經驗，包括他們自己的開創性FACTS設計突破。

讀者將在FACTS控制器的各個方面獲得堅實的基礎，包括：
- 基本的基礎理論
- FACTS控制器發展的逐步演進
- 選擇合適的FACTS控制器的指南
- 在EMTP編程語言中的示例計算機模擬
- 對電壓調節變壓器、相位角調節器和統一功率流控制器等FACTS控制器進行建模的關鍵差異
- 三種基於VSC的基本FACTS控制器（STATCOM、SSSC和UPFC）的建模技術和控制實現

此外，該書還介紹了一種新型的FACTS控制器，即Sen變壓器，該控制器基於作者開發的技術。附錄中提供了書中討論的所有示例模型，配套的FTP網站還提供了更多可下載的示例模型，以及書中出現的全彩照片。

這本書對全球電力工程從業人員和學生來說是必讀之物，為電力傳輸系統中越來越嚴重的網絡擁塞和電力流動限制問題提供了可行的解決方案。