STATCOM Application with FLC and Voltage Control on The Load in the Hybrid Model of Fuel Cell/Solar Panels System

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In this study, both the reactive power and amplitude of the voltage on the load are controlled in the Fuel Cell (FC)/Solar Panels (SP) hybrid system. Compensation is required to reduce harmonics and to correct power factor in power systems. STATCOM, a more advanced version of these compensation systems, has started to be widely used. STATCOM has a two-level inverter and it performs the necessary adjustments by switching the capacitors to remove the reactive power in the system. The Fuzzy Logic Controller (FLC) is used here to generate and control inverter gate signals. In addition, the direct current (DC) obtained from the FC/SP system on the load side is connected to a green bus and the obtained voltage is converted to Alternating Current (AC) by means of an inverter. Again using FLC, it was tried to obtain constant voltage of 380V / 50 Hz on the loads. Therefore, the system performs both controlling the voltage on the loads and compensation. Simulation of the whole system was performed in MATLAB / Simulink environment.