Professional Documents
Culture Documents
3dofpid
3dofpid
Abstract—In the present work, two-area three-source power peak loads. Due to change in load, errors in designing of
system is considered consisting of thermal, hydro and gas as the power system there is various unreliability in the power
generating units in the power system. The 3 degree of free- system. This prevents the capability of conventional control
dom proportional integral derivative controller (3-DOF PID) is
considered and gains of parameters are tuned by using a new strategies to control this unstable part of load frequency control
nature based grey wolf optimization (GWO) technique. (ITAE) is problem. Because of this traditional control strategies are not
taken as objective function. To show the ascendancy of proposed capable to handle this fluctuating part of the LFC problem. So,
approach, the results are compared with DE optimized PID and power systems must be designed to manage non-linearity and
TLBO optimized two degree of freedom (2-DOF) PID controller. inconsistent behavior so as to have a control over the real time
From the simulation, it was found that the results obtained are
better in terms of error, settling time and peak/under shoots. scenario. In the year of 1970, modern optimal control concept
Index Terms—3-Degree Of Freedom Proportional Integral for automatic generation control (AGC) in the power system
Derivative (3-DOF PID) Controller; Multi-source power system; was given by Fosha and Elgerd [4]. In this paper, critical
Multi-area power system; Load frequency control (LFC); Grey examination was done for Megawatt power and frequency
Wolf Optimization (GWO) control problem. Kumar P ,Kothari DP [5] gave a literature
survey on the AGC of power systems. Majhi S Parmer KPS
I. I NTRODUCTION [6] single area three sources power system comprising of
When there is some imbalance between generation of true reheating turbine thermal power plant, hydro power plant along
power and loading in the power system, it leads to variation with mechanical hydraulic governor and gas turbine power
in frequency of the system and power in the tie-line. This plant is considered and the proposed optimal output feed-
inequality between generation of power and demand is solved back controller provides satisfactory performance in reducing
by proper control of true power which is done by controlling frequency overshoot and transient oscillations than that of
frequency as true power depends on frequency of the system feedback controller. A generalized neural network approach
[1]. The prime role of Load Frequency Control is to keep for LFC in the power system has been proposed by Kalra PK,
desired real power output of a generating unit and help in Chaturbedi DK [7]. A new approach called as an approach
regulating the frequency of interconnected power system. It of reinforcement learning for AGC has been proposed by
is normally called as a constituent of AGC. Maintenance of Sastry PS, Rao PSN [8]. Mohanty et al. [9] considered a three
stability of power system can be done by keeping balance source power system consisting of thermal, gas and hydro
between real power and frequency. The net variation in gen- power plants and optimized the parameters of controller using
eration in each area is computed by LFC by monitoring the DE algorithm and found that DE optimized PID controller
frequency of the system and flow in the tie-line is referred provides better damping of oscillations in the system than
as Area Control Error (ACE).Low value of ACE is preferred that of optimal feedback controller. Algorithm for Differential
value which can be maintained by varying the set position of Evolution was developed by Stron Price [10]. The research was
the alternators present in the particular area. When the ACE is further extended by Sahu Rabindra Kumar et. al [11] and a
made zero by LFC, then tie-line power as well as frequency new controller was introduced called as 2-Degree Of freedom
errors will lead to zeros [2]. Control areas or regions consist (DOF) PID controller and optimized the controller parameters
of set of generators in a vast power system. The integration using Teaching Learning Based Optimization (TLBO) algo-
of hydro, thermal, nuclear, gas, renewable energy resources rithm and found that this controller produces better response
etc. results in a control area [3]. Thermal generation and as compared to PID controller optimized by DE algorithm for
hydro generation is normally used to meet the base loads load frequency control (LFC) in three source two area power
and gas power generation is kept to meet peak demands or system. Algorithm for TLBO was given by Rao et.al [12].
978-1-5386-5995-3/18/$31.00 ©2018 IEEE
2983
International Conference on Recent Innovations in Electrical, Electronics & Communication Engineering - (ICRIEECE)
II. D ESIGNING OF THE SYSTEM UNDER STUDY discharge volume time constant of turbine are represented as
XC , YC , bg, cg, TCR , TF , TCD respectively.
Multi source two area interconnected power system is given
in Fig. 1.In this dynamic model, each area is provided with
III. T HE 3 DOF PID CONTROLLER
three inputs consisting of controller input (∆Pref ), disturbance
in load (∆PD ) and error in the tie-line power (∆PT ie ) and two The independent adjustment of number of closed loop
outputs consisting of deviation in frequency (∆F ) and Area transfer functions is known as degree of freedom (DOF).The
control error (ACE).This ACE is equated in Eq.(1). internal structure of 2-DOF PID controller is shown in fig. 2.
ACE = B∆F + ∆PT ie (1)
Fig. 1. Transfer Function model of two area three source power system Fig. 3. Internal Structure of three DOF Controller
governor for thermal , hydro , gas generating plants are The fig. 3 presents the internal design of 3-DOF PID controller.
represented as R1 , R2 , R3 (p.u. Hz) respectively; similarly pa- As it is a three degree of freedom so, it includes three control
rameters of frequency bias are represented as B1 , B2 , B3 . Area loops in the system. Here, R(s) represents input which is the
control error is represented by ACE1 , ACE2 , and ACE3 . In ACE of respective area. Y(s) indicates the frequency deviating
thermal power plant, the time constant of speed governor, the in each area and output of the controller is given as C(s)
time constant of turbine, the turbine reheat constant, steam which act as input to the generating units. The basic difference
turbine reheat time constant are represented as TSG , TT , Kr between 2-DOF and 3-DOF is the disturbance D(s) in the
and Tr respectively. In hydro power plant, speed governor system which is given as feedback in 3-DOF and it is absent
main servo time constant of turbine, nominal starting time in 2-DOF PID controller. This additional loop present in
of water in penstock, speed governor transient droop time the controller helps in eliminating disturbance in the system
constant of turbine ,speed governor reset time of turbine are quickly which further improves the stability in the system.
represented as TGH , TW , TRH and TRS respectively. In gas The objective function is decided as per the requirements of
turbine power plant , lead time constant of speed governor of the system and limitations in the system. The main aim of
turbine ,lag time constant of speed governor of turbine, turbine objective function is to have best values for the parameters of
constant ,valve position of turbine , combustion reaction time the controller. Here, objective function used is ITAE because
delay of turbine , fuel time constant of turbine , compressor of the following advantages depicted below.
2984
International Conference on Recent Innovations in Electrical, Electronics & Communication Engineering - (ICRIEECE)
2985
International Conference on Recent Innovations in Electrical, Electronics & Communication Engineering - (ICRIEECE)
~ ~ ~
Y~ (t + 1) = Y1 + Y2 + Y3 (13)
3
Eqn. (7), (9) and (11) gives best position of alpha wolves,
beta wolves and delta wolves respectively and the final position
is found by taking the average of position of the these three
wolves which is given by eqn. (13).
When GWO optimized 3DOF-PID controller is used, it was When 3DOF PID controller optimized by Grey Wolf Opti-
found that it gives much improved results as compared to pre- mization was used in two area three source power systems, it
published results in terms of settling time, peak overshoot and was found that it gives much more improved results as com-
peak undershoot which is shown in table 1.The ITAE values pared to pre-published results such as Differential Evolution
of the various optimized controller is given in table 2.The Optimized PID controller and Teaching Learning based 2DOF
parameters of the designed controller is given in table 3.The PID controller. This can be seen through superior results in
2986
International Conference on Recent Innovations in Electrical, Electronics & Communication Engineering - (ICRIEECE)
TABLE III
ITAE VALUES FOR VARIOUS OPTIMIZED CONTROLLER
A PPENDIX
R1 = R2 = R3 = 2.4Hz/p.u.; TGH = 0.2s, TW =
1.0s, TRH = 28.75s, bg = 0.05s, cg = 1, TF = 0.23s, YC =
1s, XC = 0.6s, TCD = 0.2s, TCR = 0.01s, TRS =
5s, KP S = 68.9566Hz/p.u.M W ; R1 = R2 = R3 =
2987