Unified Power
Quality Conditioner Using One-Cycle Control
Keyue Smedley
02-07
EISG Project
Title: Unified Power Quality
Conditioner Using One-Cycle Control
EISG Grant Number: 02-07
PIER Area: Industrial/Agricultural/Water End-Use
Efficiency
Principal Investigator: Keyue Smedley
Contact Information: Phone:
(949) 824-6710, email: smedley@uci.edu
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Grant Amount: $75,000
Grant Term: 12 Months
Project Description:
Proposes to demonstrate the feasibility of using the applicant’s patented One-Cycle Control (OCC) circuit design to simplify and reduce the cost of a Unified Power Quality Conditioner (UPQC) that can compensate for reactive power flow, harmonic distortion, and voltage variation/sag.
Proposed Outcomes:
§ A 5KW three-phase bench-scale prototype of One-Cycle Control Unified Power Quality Conditioner (OCC-UPQC) will be fabricated and tested.
Anticipated Benefits:
§ Potential to reduce California electrical consumption by 10% if installed in 50% of the utility electrical substations.
§ May increase the capacity of the California transmission system by 5%.