INGEGRID™ STATCOM

Ingeteam offers its clients comprehensive, quality electrical supply solutions, including consultancy involving in-depth analysis of the best option, detailed engineering, specifications, and supply and commissioning of both fundamental elements and auxiliary ones.
INGEGRID™ STATCOM:

• Covers modular solutions from ±4 MVAr to ±100 MVAr, and low- and medium-voltage connections, making it suitable for small plants for end users to large generation plants and transmission and distribution grids.
• INGEGRID™ solutions are available in permanent and transportable formats.
• They can optionally be incorporated into a SCADA system which allows the client to monitor and control their plant.
• The solution makes it possible to communicate with other equipment or SCADAs using different communication protocols such as IEC 61850, 101, 104, PROCOME, etc.

Benefits of STATCOM:

• Avoids network code penalties.
• It allows the network to work at a constant voltage even when starting large machines, eliminating harmonics and unbalanced loads. As a consequence, losses are reduced and the life of the plant lengthens.
• Increases the performance of the machines, which translates into productive savings and rapid amortization of the equipment.
• Instantaneous reactive energy compensation, both inductive and capacitive.
• Constant reactive power capacity, even under low voltage conditions.
• Excellent in offset accuracy and flexibility.
• Possibility of containerization, capacities up to 14 MVAr per container, with multiple stacking levels.

The INGEGRID™ solution for voltage control and power factor regulation applications is composed of the following elements:

Power Conversion System (PCS), which includes:

INGEGRID™ STATCOM is Ingeteam's contribution to the quality and stability of the electrical grid supply, to  grid code compliance, and to  spreading its benefits to all of the system's elements:

This static compensator works both in inductive mode (reducing the grid voltage) and in capacitive mode (increasing the grid voltage). It also supports hybrid solutions in which capacitor and/or reactor banks are added to increase power. In addition, it is able to act as a voltage regulator, load balancing and active harmonic filtering device.

“The STATCOM is configured in compliance with national network codes according to the system requirements. It is used in electro-intensive sectors such as mining or metallurgy ."

Its installation is versatile since it can be located both in the electrical room and in an ISO transportable container. Each container can have a reactive power capacity of up to 14 MVAr, admitting configurations of step-down transformers with several secondaries and multiple stacking levels, which allow the handling of powers well above 100 MVAr at a voltage of 3,65 kV.

Although other reactive power compensation technologies such as SVC have been used in the past, the STATCOM allows faster compensation, being able to operate at lower grid voltages, guaranteeing reactive compensation and occupying less space. In other words, the STATCOM is faster, more capable, more flexible and more compact than the SVC.