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link [6]. This helps to balance both active <strong>and</strong> reactive power in the line.<br />

1.3 Thyristor Switched Capacitor<br />

Thyristor Switched Capacitor (TSC) System is a type <strong>of</strong> SVC <strong>shunt</strong> to the<br />

line. Single phase consists <strong>of</strong> a number <strong>of</strong> back-to-back connected <strong>thyristor</strong><br />

pair in series to a capacitor <strong>and</strong> a reactor as can be seen from Figure 1.1. The<br />

number <strong>of</strong> branches in one phase depends on the required precision <strong>of</strong> the reactive<br />

power. Due to its countless benefits including simple <strong>design</strong> <strong>and</strong> installation,<br />

TSC is preferred in many application areas. Some <strong>of</strong> them can be listed as<br />

supply voltage support, reactive power compensation, harmonics filtration, etc.<br />

Among these application areas <strong>of</strong> TSC, the most common one is the reactive<br />

power compensation. TSC simply provides capacitive reactive power to the main<br />

electricity so that it reduces or cancels the reactive power dem<strong>and</strong> <strong>of</strong> the large<br />

industrial loads.<br />

LINE<br />

TSC<br />

Figure 1.1: General structure <strong>of</strong> TSC.<br />

TSC has been used since early 70s [9], [10], [11]. It was the only tool to improve<br />

the transient stability <strong>and</strong> to compensate the inductive reactive power efficiently.<br />

After investigating the benefits <strong>of</strong> TSC, many researches have been done about<br />

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