S. Chouhan, D. Barrett, Hakan Inan, A. Feliachi, Harley Mayfíeld
{"title":"Model based design of West Virginia Super Circuit(WVSC) microgrid system","authors":"S. Chouhan, D. Barrett, Hakan Inan, A. Feliachi, Harley Mayfíeld","doi":"10.1109/NAPS.2017.8107208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAPS.2017.8107208","url":null,"abstract":"Microgrids are becoming an important aspect of Smart Grid technology that can offer increased energy security, efficiency, and reliability. The design, development, and analysis of microgrid systems demand an effective modeling and simulation approach. This paper presents a streamlined, modelbased design approach that was used to design the microgrid system as part of the Department of Energy funded demonstration project called West Virginia Super Circuit. The proposed modeling and simulation plan includes econometric, load flow, short circuit, protection and coordination, and dynamic stability analyses with each serving a distinct purpose in the comprehensive microgrid design process. This paper focuses on the dynamic stability analysis that was used to study the dynamic behavior of the microgrid for vulnerable situations — e.g., faults, generation loss, and step increase/decrease in loads — in order to propose remedies to these vulnerabilities through design modifications. The simulation platform was developed using Matlab/Simpower and CYME software.","PeriodicalId":296428,"journal":{"name":"2017 North American Power Symposium (NAPS)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128188279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Md. Shakawat Hossan, B. Chowdhury, M. Arora, Churlzu Lim
{"title":"Effective CVR planning with smart DGs using MINLP","authors":"Md. Shakawat Hossan, B. Chowdhury, M. Arora, Churlzu Lim","doi":"10.1109/NAPS.2017.8107229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAPS.2017.8107229","url":null,"abstract":"Conservation Voltage Reduction (CVR) schemes and renewable energy based distributed generation (DG) can be coordinated to maintain lower node voltages for reducing load consumption and line losses in distribution systems. In addition, smart inverter interfaced DGs are significant resources to maintain the lowest possible voltages at the loading points and adjacent nodes. This paper describes a method of coordination of distributed smart inverters and existing network infrastructure (i.e., capacitor banks and step voltage regulator) of radial distribution system for precise CVR planning. This helps to keep the source voltage and LTC stepper in a range which can maintain the voltage profile within the lower ANSI band (0.95 p.u.–1.0 p.u) throughout the feeder. A mixed integer nonlinear Programming (MINLP) formulation is used to co-ordinate the whole network to keep the voltage in the desired service range. The IEEE 37 bus test system is used to validate the method and to compare with the outcome of conventional inverter based DGs for CVR deployment.","PeriodicalId":296428,"journal":{"name":"2017 North American Power Symposium (NAPS)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131680204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Robust state estimation via network partitioning","authors":"Chenxi Xu, A. Abur","doi":"10.1109/NAPS.2017.8107392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAPS.2017.8107392","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a linear phasor state estimator which maintains robustness against gross errors while remaining computationally efficient. This is achieved by defining as many additional zones as necessary so that any bus in the system will appear as an internal bus with respect to at least one zone. All zones will have their separate state estimators which will run in parallel assuming the availability of a multi-core parallel computing platform. Thus, the overall computation time will be independent of the actual system size, but will be determined by the size of the largest zone. Such an estimator is emulated and tested on a small (30-bus) and a large (2917-bus) test power system.","PeriodicalId":296428,"journal":{"name":"2017 North American Power Symposium (NAPS)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134398835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Implementation of wide area control in a real-time cyber-physical power system test bed","authors":"O. Bassey, Bo Chen, K. Butler-Purry, A. Goulart","doi":"10.1109/NAPS.2017.8107288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAPS.2017.8107288","url":null,"abstract":"Developing a test environment for smart grid forms an indispensable stage to the realization of the next generation of the electricity grid. The coupling of the physical power system and its associated communication network makes modern power grid a typical cyber-physical system. In this paper, a real-time power system was simulated in RTDS and the communication network in NS-3. This test bed includes a wide area control scheme that employs the speed difference of generators in two areas of a simple 11-bus power system to dampen down local and inter-area oscillations. Different network conditions were tested and compared with cases that made use of only local input to dampen oscillations and another case that assumes a perfect communication network. The test bed showed that wide area control implementation with extremely unfavorable network conditions could introduce delays beyond the tolerable limit and lock the power system into a continually unstable mode, while favorable network conditions enhance damping of the local and inter-area oscillations of the power system.","PeriodicalId":296428,"journal":{"name":"2017 North American Power Symposium (NAPS)","volume":"218 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133275634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Subramanian, Gregory Heiskell, Fereshteh Mahmudzadeh, P. Famouri
{"title":"Study of radial and axial magnets for linear alternator — Free piston engine system","authors":"J. Subramanian, Gregory Heiskell, Fereshteh Mahmudzadeh, P. Famouri","doi":"10.1109/NAPS.2017.8107293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAPS.2017.8107293","url":null,"abstract":"The use of linear alternators are increasing daily with the usage in hybrid vehicles, Stirling power engines, free piston engines and other renewable energy technologies. Detailed study on the usage of radial or axial magnets in the linear alternator has not been performed so far. This paper attempts to study the effects of the radial magnets and axial magnets under the same conditions using ANSYS Maxwell for a tubular linear alternator used in free piston engines. For the study, a linear alternator is designed, modeled and tested with radial and axial magnets. For the sake of comparison, the EMF, flux density, power, efficiency have been evaluated for the axial and radial field machines. Later the results obtained from the simulations were analyzed and studied. It shows that the axial magnets provide more efficiency and output power compared to the radial magnets.","PeriodicalId":296428,"journal":{"name":"2017 North American Power Symposium (NAPS)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131734199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reliability assessment and comparison between centralized and distributed energy management system in islanding microgrid","authors":"Zheyuan Cheng, Jie Duan, M. Chow","doi":"10.1109/NAPS.2017.8107366","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAPS.2017.8107366","url":null,"abstract":"As the number of DER in the microgrid increases, the electrical interfaces and communication interactions are more sophisticated and frequent than ever, which poses a great challenge for microgrid Energy Management System (EMS). Efforts has been made to address this challenge. The solutions generally fall into two categories: centralized and distributed solution. Comparing with centralized EMS, distributed EMS is commonly considered as a more promising and reliable approach. Nonetheless, the current microgrid reliability research are focused on the physical layer of microgrid, such as overhead lines, transformers, circuit breakers and the DER device itself. The reliability analysis that considers controller failure and EMS framework are not reported in current publications. In this paper, a general reliability assessment methodology based on Monte Carlo simulation is presented to assess the reliability of both centralized EMS and distributed EMS in islanding microgrid. Different performance metrics such as system-average-interruption-frequency-index (SAIFI) and expected-energy-not-supplied (EENS) are used to quantify and evaluate the reliability. Simulation results indicates that using the same controller, the microgrid with distributed EMS is able to achieve better reliability indices, and the distributed EMS can achieve same level of reliability using less reliable controllers.","PeriodicalId":296428,"journal":{"name":"2017 North American Power Symposium (NAPS)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122429623","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Selective harmonic compensation by smart inverters using multiple-complex-coefficient-filter (MCCF) during unbalanced fault condition","authors":"Mahfuz A. Shuvra, B. Chowdhury","doi":"10.1109/NAPS.2017.8107384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAPS.2017.8107384","url":null,"abstract":"An improved methodology for selective harmonic detection and compensation (SHC) is proposed for smart inverters used as a Shunt Active Power Filter (SAPF). It is equally applicable in abnormal operating conditions such as in the event of an asymmetrical grid fault. A Multiple-Complex-Coefficient-Filter (MCCF) based Phase Locked Loop (PLL) is designed and tested for 5th and 7th harmonic compensation. Associated harmonic as well as fundamental current controllers in Synchronous Reference Frame (SRF) are designed and verified through simulation. Multiple linear rotating Proportional-Integral (PI) controllers are deployed for regulating the line current. MATLAB-SimPowerSystems package is used as a software platform for the demonstration of controllers' transient and steady-state performance. The proposed approach can selectively detect and effectively reduce harmonics to meet IEEE standards. This approach can also be extended to n number of harmonic compensation in a fast and accurate manner.","PeriodicalId":296428,"journal":{"name":"2017 North American Power Symposium (NAPS)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123037312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A TSA-based consideration to design LQR auxiliary voltage control of DFIG","authors":"H. A. Abdelsalam, Dan Suriyamongkol, E. Makram","doi":"10.1109/NAPS.2017.8107343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAPS.2017.8107343","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces a consideration to design an auxiliary voltage control of doubly-fed induction generator (DFIG) using linear quadratic regulator (LQR). One of the LQR control design challenges is the state variables weighting matrix, which has lack of systematic method. The new consideration, that determines the LQR state weighting matrix, is based on the trajectory sensitivity analysis (TSA). TSA method solves the system differential algebraic equations to get the sensitivity of state variables and outputs to the system parameters. In this paper, the sensitivity of state variables to the DFIG voltage control input parameter is used to catch the state weighting matrix. The state weighting matrix is considered based on the infinity norm throughout the time series simulation. The proposed weighting matrix is compared with two of the common methods that used in literature using a modified two-area power system. Simulation results show that the TSA-based controller has better voltage support and control signal performance. The TSA-based controller also improves the settling of oscillation damping. The proposed method shows robustness of the damping control by presenting different contingency scenarios.","PeriodicalId":296428,"journal":{"name":"2017 North American Power Symposium (NAPS)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124225007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Implementation of a generic PMU model using LabVIEW","authors":"A. Jain, V. Centeno","doi":"10.1109/NAPS.2017.8107359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAPS.2017.8107359","url":null,"abstract":"Development of synchronized phasor measurements is one of the most significant developments in the area of power systems in recent times. A lot of research is being conducted in their applications and optimal placement as well. However, more efforts are needed to develop models of Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) which can be directly utilized in power system simulations without the need for spending money or efforts to update the model algorithm each time the system parameters change. We have addressed this issue in this paper by implementing a PMU model which is highly configurable and easy to use. It can also serve as a teaching aid for engineering students to help them learn about synchronized phasor measurements.","PeriodicalId":296428,"journal":{"name":"2017 North American Power Symposium (NAPS)","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124455544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Estimating inertia distribution to enhance power system dynamics","authors":"Yajun Wang, Horacio Silva-Saravia, Héctor Pulgar-Painemal","doi":"10.1109/NAPS.2017.8107383","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NAPS.2017.8107383","url":null,"abstract":"The understanding of power system characteristics and their impact on system behavior can lead to improved dynamic performances. Based on the Center of Inertia (COI) concept, this paper presents a practical study on the inertia distribution estimation, which can be used to both planning in long time scale and operation in short time scale, to meet with increasing renewable integration level in the future power system. Two indices are created to calculate the inertia distribution over the grid. Specifically, it is found that the proposed indices are highly related to the grid structure, and also they are affected by different parameters such as inertia constant, line parameters, terminal voltage set point of synchronous machines and models of exciters and governors. With these characteristics, the proposed indices have the potential to be applied on problems such as the placement of phasor measurement units or energy storage systems and generators coherency detection. Simulation results in a radial system, a meshed system and the IEEE 39-bus test system verify the characteristic of the proposed indices and show their potential applications in modern power systems.","PeriodicalId":296428,"journal":{"name":"2017 North American Power Symposium (NAPS)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121257621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}