TRANSIENT

STABILITY OF POWER
SYSTEMS
A Unied Approach to Assessment and
Control

TRANSIENT STABILITY CLOSED LOOP EMERGENCY CONTROL

Emergency control aims at triggering and designing ac1ons in real 1me,

a3er a harmful con1ngency has actually occurred.

Emergency SIME uses measurements acquired from the system power

plants in real 1me.

Principle: Procedure consists of following tasks,

(i) Predic1ng the OMIB structure,

(ii)Predic1ng the OMIB P- curve, using a weighted least-squares es1ma1on.
(iii)Predic1ng instability, if not repeat the above steps by using new
measurement sets. If yes, compute the corresponding margin and 1me to
instability(tu).
(iv)Determine the size of control and trigger the corresponding ac1on.
(v)con1nue monitoring by repea1ng the above steps to assess whether the
control ac1on has been sucient or should be reinforced.

AN EMERGENCY CONTROL CYCLE

Data acquisi1on at power plants and their transmission to control
rooms
Data Processing at the control room(E-SIME Predic1ve and control
module)
Order transmission from control room to the system
The order actual implementa1on.

E-SIME is responsible for the data processing at the control room

and the processing includes instability predic1on and assessment
and control ac1on design.

General Framework

PREDICTIVE MODULE
Predic1ve SIME method predicts the stability of the system entering
its post-fault congura1on at successive sample 1mes ts(ex:1
sample every 20ms).
At each sample 1me OMIB analysis is performed to decide whether
the system is stable or driven to instability.
The crux for this analysis is the predic1on of OMIB P- curve and
hence the predic1on of unstable angle u and its corresponding
margin.

PROCEDURE

Construct the OMIB

Predict the OMIB swing curve(using weighted least squares es1ma1on)

Solve the above equa1on to nd the OMIB angle u.

Compute the corresponding stability margin such that

If is found to be nega1ve or close to zero, declare the system to be

unstable and determine control ac1ons.

Compute the 1me to instability given as:

CONTROL MODULE

Consider the shedding of 1 critical machine, denoted mj

It is supposed to shed x seconds after the current time ti

Shedding mj results in modifying OMIBs structure as the no of CMs decrease by one.

Predict the angle and speed of this OMIB just after the actual shedding of the machine mj,
let OMIB1 denote this new OMIB.

The OMIB P- curve is again approximated as

The angle that OMIB reaches at the control time i.e., x seconds after the current time is
denoted as ct1 and computed by:

The value of OMIB1 speed at the control time can be determined by

CONCLUSIONS

E-SIME is free from system modeling and parameter uncertain1es,

loca1on and clearing scenario of con1ngency.
The total 1me required for the whole cycle predic1on-assessment-
design-triggering of the ac1on is expected not to exceed 500-600ms.
Unlike Preven1ve SIME which reached maturity and is now ready for
use, Emergency SIME is s1ll in its infancy.

Thank You!