Theses and Dissertations

Minglan Lin

Issuing Body

Mississippi State University

Advisor

Grzybowski, Stanislaw

Committee Member

Schulz, Noel N.

Committee Member

Srivastava, Anurag K.

Committee Member

Follett, Randolph F.

Date of Degree

12-10-2010

Document Type

Dissertation - Open Access

Major

Electrical Engineering

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy

College

James Worth Bagley College of Engineering

Department

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Abstract

Voltage stability is a challenging problem in the design and operation of terrestrial and shipboard power systems. DC links can be integrated in the AC systems to increase the transmission capacity or to enhance the distribution performance. However, DC links introduce voltage stability issues related to the reactive power shortage due to power converters. Multi-infeed DC systems make this existing phenomenon more complicated. In addition, shipboard power systems have unique characteristics, and some concepts and methodologies developed for terrestrial power systems need to be investigated and modified before they are extended for shipboard power systems. One goal of this work was to develop a systematic method for voltage stability assessment of hybrid AC/DC systems, independent of system configuration. The static and dynamic approaches have been used as complementary methods to address different aspects in voltage stability. The other goal was to develop or to apply voltage stability indicators for voltage stability assessment. Two classical indicators (the minimum eigenvalue and loading margin) and an improvement (the 2nd order performance indicator) have been jointly used for the prediction of voltage stability, providing information on the system state and proximity to and mechanism of instability. The eliminated variable method has been introduced to calculate the partial derivatives of AC/DC systems for modal analysis. The previously mentioned methodologies and the associated indicators have been implemented for the application of integrated shipboard power system including DC zonal arrangement. The procedure of voltage stability assessment has been performed for three test systems, the WSCC 3-machine 9-bus system, the benchmark integrated shipboard power system, and the modified I RTS-96. The static simulation results illustrate the critical location and the contributing factors to the voltage instability, and screen the critical contingencies for dynamic simulation. The results obtained from various static methods have been compared. The dynamic simulation results demonstrate the response of dynamic characteristics of system components, and benchmark the static simulation results.

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11668/17076

Comments

Modal analysis||loading margin||The second order performance indicator||Single-infeed DC configuration||multi-infeed DC configuration||Jacobian matrix||Hessian matrix

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