Synchronous generator stability due to multiple faults on unbalanced power systems

Abstract

Abstract This paper investigates the dynamic behavior of a synchronous generator connected to an unbalanced three-phase power system which is subjected to a shunt fault at one location and blown fuses or open conductors at another location. The method involves phase frame representation of the line. The imbalance created by large single-phase loads, untransposed lines, conductor bundles, etc., is reflected in polyphase impedance matrices. Consequently, line removals, additions, impedance changes, conductor and faulted phase openings can be simulated based on the boundary conditions. Thus, the proposed method makes it possible to study the synchronous generator stability due to any combination of single or multiple asymmetrical series and shunt faults occurring anywhere in the system and the results of several case studies are presented. A significant finding is that certain faults cause the generator to lose synchronism only after several cycles of the rotor angle swing curve. In such cases it is therefore no longer correct to judge the system's stability only on the ‘first swing cycle’ of the rotor angle.