%0 Conference Paper %A Mohammed, B.S. %A Rama Rao, K.S. %A Ibrahim, R. %A Perumal, N. %D 2012 %F scholars:2456 %K Compensation performance; Compensation voltage; Different operating conditions; left-shunt UPQC; Performance characteristics; PSCAD/ETMDC; right-shunt UPQC; Unified power quality conditioners, Active filters; Power quality; Voltage stabilizing circuits, Industrial electronics %P 167-172 %R 10.1109/ISIEA.2012.6496621 %T Performance evaluation of R-UPQC and L-UPQC based on a novel voltage detection algorithm %U https://khub.utp.edu.my/scholars/2456/ %X This paper proposes a new method to detect voltage imperfections such as balanced/unbalanced voltage sag/swell, voltage flicker, and voltage disturbance in a single or three-phase electrical systems with excellent performance characteristics. The proposed method is based on single-phase synchronous d-q reference frame transformation. In contrast to the previous methods which need measurement of three phase voltage for sag detection in which it fails to detect the voltage sag lower than a definite depth. The proposed method employs the series compensator of Unified Power Quality Conditioner (UPQC) to inject compensation voltage in-phase or in-quadrate with source current during voltage sag. The performance of two structures of UPQC, right-shunt (R-UPQC) and left-shunt (L-UPQC) are tested under different operating conditions based on proposed controller to improve power quality of a single feeder distribution system. The simulation analysis and compensation performance of both UPQC topologies is implemented on PSCAD/EMTDC platform. © 2012 IEEE. %Z cited By 5; Conference of 2012 IEEE Symposium on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ISIEA 2012 ; Conference Date: 23 September 2012 Through 26 September 2012; Conference Code:96680