Coordinated Control of Intentional Islanding and Phase Sequence Exchange for Enhancing Transient Stability of Isolated Power Grid

Abstract

An isolated power grid (IPG) is electrically weakly connected to the utility power grid, and intentional controlled islanding (ICI) can secure IPG from external faults. Phase Sequence Exchange (PSE) is a recently developed emergency control technology in which power electronic devices are used to switch the three-phase sequence, thereby reducing the power angle of the generator by 120° and preventing the system from losing stability. This paper proposed a coordinated control scheme for PSE and ICI. After the system is disturbed, the local measurement of the interconnection line between IPG and the utility grid is used to assess the system's stability. PSE is adopted to adjust the power flow direction to reduce the transient energy of IPG. At the same time, using the internal measurement of IPG, the transient energy of IPG is calculated in real-time, and the critical energy is rolling refreshed based on offline information. After PSE reduces the energy of IPG to lower than the critical energy, IPG is safely disconnected from the utility grid. The proposed scheme needless to adjust the internal generator or load of IPG and is verified on the real-time digital simulator (RTDS) platform with a PSE prototype.