Facts, Concepts and general system configuration. Transmission, interconnection, flow of power in AC system, power flow and dynamic stability consideration, of a transmission interconnection, relative importance of controllable parameters, basic types of FACTs controllers, shunt, series, combined shunt and series connected controllers.
types of high power devices, principle of high power device characteristics and requirements, power device material, diode, MOSFET, MOS turn OFF thryrirstor, emitter turn OFF thryristor, integrated gate commuted thyristor (GCT & IGCT).
basic concepts, single phase full wave bridge converter operation, square wave voltage harmonics for a single phase bridge 3 phase full wave bridge converter.
basic concepts, 3 phase full wave diode rectifier, thyristor based converter, current sourced converter with turnoff devices, current sourced versus voltage source converter.
objective of shunt compensation, methods of controllable Var generation, static Var compensator, SVC and STATCOM, comparison between, SVCandSTATCOM.
GCSC, TSSC, TCSC and SSSC, objectives of series compensation; variable impedance type of series compensation, switching converter type series compensation, external control for series reactive compensators.