Brochure SVC Light The Next Generation
Brochure SVC Light The Next Generation
Brochure SVC Light The Next Generation
SVC Light®
The next generation
Proven superiority
and leading edge technology
SVC Light® solves the troublesome With ABB SVC Light you get:
problem of electric arc furnace World class flicker mitigation
Direct connection
generated flicker. SVC Light also Unlimited range
improves arc furnace economy Excellent process economy
by supplying high quality power Unrivalled experience
to the furnace. The heart of SVC
Light is the high power Insulated
Gate Bipolar Transistor, IGBT.
With SVC Light there are no limita-
tions. You can build your melt shop
where it suits you the best, even
where the strength of the feeding
grid is limited.
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SVC Light radically reduces flicker The only way to stabilize voltage and reduce disturbing
The most common source of flicker is electrical arc furnaces flicker successfully is to continuously measure and correctly
(EAF). The violent forces released in the furnace process counteract rapid changes in currents and reactive power flow
impose a wide band of disturbances on the power supply. by extremely fast reactive power compensation. Through
This “electrical pollution” can be reduced by controlled reac- dynamic compensation the voltage on an arc furnace bus can
tive power compensation. However, these disturbances are be stabilized and disturbing flicker practically eliminated.
not fixed, but comprise a mixture of amplitudes and frequen-
cies and phase unbalance which change over time as a func-
tion of mechanical resonances, electrical supply, operation
modes, and other process parameters. This wide variety of
process conditions results in behavior of a truly stochastic
nature.
Flicker mitigation
Pst 7
6
Pst 7
5
6
4
5
3
4
2
3
1
2
5 0
1 SVC Light OFF SVC Light ON EAF/SVC OFF
Background flicke
0
SVC Light OFF SVC Light ON EAF/SVC OFF
MW 100 Background flicke
Load power
80
MW 100
60
80
40
60
20
40
0
20
15:00 18:00 Time 21:00 0
0
15:00 18:00 Time 21:00 0
2.5
1.5
2.0
1.5 1.0
1.0
0.5
0.5
0 0
DC 1 2 3 4 Harmonic 0 1 2 3 4 Harmonic
order order
Melting: Harmonic spectrum (phase-wise). Compensating currents from SVC Light (mirror load current).
kA
kA
2.0
3.0
2.5 1.5
2.0
1.0
1.5
1.0 0.5
0.5
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0 DC 1 2 3 4
Harmonic
Unlimited range
SVC Light can successfully be used with any EAF
in any environment
Unlimited: Mvar ratings are available for all EAF sizes, ie with
SVC Light, the reactive power compensators available are no
longer a limitation on EAF rating. No electric arc furnace specifi-
cation is too tough for SVC Light, not even in a very weak grid.
Operation range, SVC Light
kV
SVC Light is scaleable and functional in all feeding grids for 69
80
40
P,U
% 0
32 minutes
150 P~U 2
EAF power without SVC Light.
U with SVC Light 5 minutes
U without SVC Light MW
P with SVC Light 120
P without SVC Light
80
100 40
0
27 minutes
EAF power with SVC Light. As the melting power increases with SVC Light
the melting cycle can be shortened.
50 MWh
45
30
15
You can build your melt shop where it suits you the best, Reactive power compensation through SVC Light
regardless of network strength. gives you the following benefits:
Shorter melt down times
The resulting EAF power increases with SVC Light during the Lower energy losses
melt cycle, and thereby increases energy yield per time unit. Reduced electrode consumption
This can be utilized either to increase the output of molten Refractory savings
steel, or to attain a certain steel output in a shorter time than
would be possible without SVC Light. Improved power factor:
Lower utility tariff
More efficient use of existing electrical plant
As the VSC has its dynamic range symmetrically around Less footprint
zero Mvar while the TCR can only go inductive, the VSC In other words, SVC Light can typically be built more
only needs half the rating of the TCR, and only half the compact than SVC for the same dynamic range, ie in
amount of Mvar in filters to achieve a certain overall the majority of cases, SVC Light has a smaller footprint.
dynamic range on the capacitive side.
Superiour flicker mitigation
SVC Light utilizes IGBTs, which can be switched thousands
of times per second. This leads to superiour flicker miti-
gation properties.
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1 ABB MACH2, for control and protection, is specially designed to meet the highest demands of high speed power applications. | 2 A smooth output
voltage. | 3 The converter valve. | 4 ABB StakPak IGBTs have passed rigorous failure mode and safety tests.
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