Prediction and Control of Transient Instability Using Wide Area Phasor Measurements

• Main Author: Gomez Lezama, Francisco Ramon
• Other Authors: Rajapakse, A. (Elec. & Comp. Eng) Annakkage, U.(Elec. & Comp. Eng)
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Power System Stability and Control
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1993/4969

This thesis presents a novel technique for prediction of the transient stability status of a power system following a large disturbance such as a fault, and application of the tech-nique for subsequent emergency control. The prediction is made based on the synchro-nously measured samples of the magnitudes of fundamental frequency voltage phasors at major generation/load centers. The voltage samples are taken immediately after a fault is cleared and used as inputs to a binary classifier based on support vector machines to iden-tify the transient stability condition. The classifier is trained using examples of the post-fault recovery voltages (inputs) obtained through simulations and the corresponding sta-bility status (output) determined using a power angle-based stability index. Studies with the New England 39-bus test system indicate that the proposed algorithm can correctly recognize when the power system is approaching transient instability. The proposed sys-tem is then applied to Venezuelan power system and Manitoba Hydro power grid to demonstrate the applicability for large practical power systems. Performance of the pro-posed transient stability prediction scheme under the presence of asymmetrical faults, voltage sensitive loads, unlearned network topologies and measurement noise was found to be satisfactory. Once an impending transient instability situation has been detected, appropriate emer-gency control strategies are triggered to minimize the impact of this on the safe operation of the network and reduce the possibility of a blackout. This thesis examines two differ-ent emergency control schemes: a) A fuzzy logic based emergency load and generator shedding scheme and b) A high voltage direct current (HVdc) power order reduction scheme based on synchronized phasors measurements. These strategies were developed for two power systems with contrasting characteristics: one for the Venezuelan power system which is a conventional power system completely based on alternating current (AC) transmission, and the other for the Manitoba Hydro network which heavily depend on long HVdc transmission for power transfer. The proposed wide area control systems demonstrated good performance on the Venezuelan and Manitoba Hydro power grids.