Multi-Machine Power System Stabilizer Design using Quantitative Feedback Theory

Sayed Mojtaba Shirvani Boroujeni,Babak Keyvani Boroujeni,Mostafa Abdollahi

doi:10.19026/rjaset.5.5089

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Abstract

Power System Stabilizers (PSSs) are used to enhance damping of power system oscillations through excitation control of synchronous generator. The objective of the PSS is to generate a stabilizing signal, which produces a damping torque component on the generator shaft. Conventional PSSs are designed with the phase compensation technique in the frequency domain and include the lead-lag blocks whose parameters are determined according to a linearized power system model. The performance of Conventional PSSs (CPSSs) depends upon the generator operating point and the system parameters, but a reasonable level of robustness can be achieved depending on the tuning method. To overcome the drawbacks of CPSS, numerous techniques have been proposed in literatures. In this paper a robust method based on Quantitative Feedback Theory (QFT) Algorithm is used for tuning the PSS parameters. The proposed QFT-PSS is evaluated at a multi machine electric power system. The simulation results clearly indicate the effectiveness and validity of the proposed method.

Highlights

Large electric power systems are complex nonlinear systems and often exhibit low frequency electromechanical oscillations due to insufficient damping caused by adverse operating
The results clearly show that in large electric power systems, Power System Stabilizers (PSSs) can successfully increase damping of power system oscillations
Quantitative Feedback Theory (QFT)-PSS is designed for a family of plants and with changing system operating condition, this PSS is robust under system changing and system responses are in the range of acceptable

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Introduction

Large electric power systems are complex nonlinear systems and often exhibit low frequency electromechanical oscillations due to insufficient damping caused by adverse operating. These oscillations with small magnitude and low frequency often persist for long periods of time and in some cases they even present limitations on power transfer capability (Liu et al, 2005). Since power systems are highly nonlinear systems, with configurations and parameters which alter through time, the CPSS design based on the linearized model of the power system cannot guarantee its performance in a practical operating environment. The application of robust control methods for designing PSS has been presented by Gupta et al (2005), Mocwane and Folly (2007), Sil et al (2009) and Bouhamida et al (2005)

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