A new-generation, low-cost, and low-loss power quality compensator, developed by a research team from the University of Macau (UM), has been put into use, announced the UM research team yesterday (2 November) at IEEE TENCON 2015’s Region 10 Conference. The technology was jointly developed by UM’s State Key Laboratory of Analog and Mixed-Signal VLSI (AMS-VLSI Lab) and Electric Power Engineering Laboratory. It received MOP 4 million in funding from the Science and Technology Development Fund (FDCT) of Macao SAR and UM’s Research Committee.
The project was started in 2006 by the research team led by associate professor Wong Man Chung from UM’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The compensator is entirely ‘made in UM’. Everything, from concept development, to circuit construction, to control algorithms, was undertaken by Wong and his team members from scratch. The power quality compensator can significantly reduce the cost and operating loss of active power quality compensators that are currently available on the market. It also helps to increase the efficiency of power transmission and distribution and protect electrical equipment.
Source: Macao Daily News
