Interline Dynamic Voltage Restorer for Induction motor applications

An interline dynamic voltage restorer (IDVR) is a new device for sag mitigation which is made of several dynamic voltage restorers (DVRs) with a common DC link, where each DVR is connected in series with a distribution feeder. During sag period, active power can be transferred from a feeder to another one and voltage sags with long durations can be mitigated. IDVR compensation capacity, however, depends greatly on the load power factor and a higher load power factor causes lower performance of IDVR. To overcome this limitation, a new idea is presented in this paper which allows reducing the load power factor under sag condition, and therefore, the compensation capacity is increased. The proposed IDVR employs two cascaded H-bridge multilevel converters to inject AC voltage with lower THD and eliminates necessity to low-frequency isolation transformers in one side. The validity of the proposed configuration is verified by simulations in the Matlab/Simulink environment. Then, experimental results on a scaled-down IDVR are presented to confirm the theoretical and simulation results.