DSP BASED INTELLIGENT FIRING CONTROLLER FOR SMES POWER CONDITIONING SYSTEM

Abstract

The use of SMES systems to enhance both generation system and transmission and distribution system assets can translate into sjgpificant strategic competitive advantage for the power system industry in the next century. Similarly, the expected growth of wind and direct solar technologies, and of non-utility generators, as well as of traditional needs of outage backup and system stability protection all argue for the development of reliable, broadly applicable SMES system. The main challenge is to design and implement a powerful firing / system controller for the proper SMES power conditioning systeni/which can handle the time critical requirements of the control and the firing circuits operations. Therefor, achieving such benefits and more through on-line control algorithms will be an easy task.