| Currently the power system is lagging behind the demands of the consumer. With the inability to build new transmission and generation due to social and economic pressures, the weakened power system tends to exhibit poor power quality. This problem gets dramatically worse if there is an Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) on the network due to its chaotic highly non-linear load. The power quality issue mostly associated with the EAF is light flicker, where people working and living nearer the EAF notice the lights flickering due to the EAF demands on the power system.; The utilities and the industrial community need to work together to design and apply new and novel ways to compensate this poor power quality.; This thesis developed a control strategy using the STATCOM to effectively compensate light flicker.; This thesis also develops a method to benchmark the level of compensation by modeling the UIE/IEC Flickermeter for use in and EMT-Type program.; Using the models developed above and a novel method of integrating real recorded data and an EMT-Type simulation, a method to successfully mitigate light flicker and to find the most cost effective size was developed. |
