On-Line Transient Stability Evaluation by System Decomposition-Aggregation and High Order Derivatives

Abstract

An on-line transient stability evaluation method is presented in this paper. Under some classical assumptions, the change of generator rotor angles during the transient period is described by a set of second order differential equations. This set of equations is solved by single-step high order derivative explicit integration. A new system decomposition-aggregation technique is proposed to decompose the power system into subsystems and then to aggregate the subsystems by interconnection boundary conditions. Based on the aggregation model, the calculation of high-order derivatives is quite efficient to reduce the requirements of both computer memory and computational time for a large scale power system. The relation of memory and execution time requirements to the system decomposition is discussed. Two systems, the IEEE 118 bus test system with 34 generators and a 293 bus system with 63 generators, are tested by simulation on a CDC-6600 computer. The results demonstrate that the proposed method is effective for on-line application and may be faster than Liapunov's direct method.