A Simulink Model for Damping Power System Oscillations Using Fact Devices

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A Simulink Model for Damping Power System Oscillations Using
Fact Devices
B.Ramu1
, K. Ashwini2
, K. Damodara Reddy3
, Md. Asif 4
, P.Harika5
1,2,3,4,5
(EEE, Vardhaman College of Engineering (Autonomous), JNTU, Hyderabad, India)
Abstract : A new control schème for damping power system oscillations using fact devices is employed
instead of the traditional firing angle control schème. In this paper the effectiveness of fact devices in damping
power system oscillations is evaluated. Fact devices are SVC(static var compensator),TCSC(thyristor controlled
series capacitor),DFC(dynamic power flow controller),STATCOM(static synchronous
compensator),SSSC(static series synchronous compensator),UPFC(unified power flow controller). The most
commonly used fact devices for damping power system oscillations are TCSC,SSSC. The impact of the SVR
controlled TCSC on SSR is investigated in this real-time simulator by analyzing the system damping.
Keywords: FACTS Controllers, phase imbalance, series compensation, thyristor controlled series capacitor.
I. INTRODUCTION
FACTS Controllers provide the flexibility of controlling both real and reactive power which could
result in an excellent capability for improving power system dynamics. flexible AC Transmission Systems
(FACTS) technology provides unprecedented way for controlling transmission grids and increasing transmission
capacity. series compensation is an effective mean to increase the electrical power transfer capability of high-
voltage transmission lines.
Insertion of a capacitive reactance in series with the line’s inherent inductive reactance lowers the total,
effective impedance of the line and thus virtually reduces its length. As a result both angular and voltage
stability in the power system gets improved. A side effect of the inserting a series capacitor in series with the
transmission line is that an electrical resonance will be introduced. In the 70’ies it was experienced that this
electrical resonance may be harmful if a series compensated transmission line is connected electrically close to a
thermal power station. The reason is that the shaft system joining the electrical generator with the various
turbine stages exhibits mechanical torsional resonance at various “sub synchronous” frequencies, i.e.
frequencies below the nominal 50 or 60 Hz frequency of the network. At certain unfavorable relations between
the electrical and mechanical resonance frequencies oscillations with exponentially increasing amplitude can be
excited spontaneously. This condition is being referred to as a Torsional Interaction Sub Synchronous
Resonance “TI-SSR”. This condition potentially may cause damage to the generator with severe consequences
for the power supply and causing harsh economical loss.
A problem of interest in the power industry at which FACTS Controllers could play a significant role in it is
increasing damping of low frequency power oscillations that often arise between areas in large interconnected
power networks. These oscillations are termed inter-area oscillations, which are normally characterized by poor
damping . Inter-area oscillations can severely restrict system operations by requiring the curtailment of electric
power transfers level as an operational measure. These oscillations can also lead to widespread system
disturbances. Several studies have investigated the potential of using FACTS Controllers’ capability in damping
inter-area oscillations. The use of Thyristor Controlled Series Capacitor (TCSC), and Static Synchronous Series
Compensator (SSSC) have been the subjects of several studies evaluating their respective effectiveness in
enhancing power system dynamics.
II. Modeling Of The Single Phase Tcsc
The recently proposed phase imbalanced series capacitive compensation concept has been shown to be
effective in enhancing power system dynamics as it has the potential of damping power swing as well as sub
synchronous resonance oscillations. Fig. 1 shows a scheme for a phase imbalanced capacitive compensation. It
is a “hybrid” series compensation scheme, where the series capacitive compensation in one phase is created
using a single-phase TCSC in series with a fixed capacitor (Cc), and the other two phases are compensated by
fixed series capacitors (C). The TCSC control is initially set such that its equivalent compensations at the power
frequency combined with the fixed capacitor yield a resultant compensation equal to the other two phases. Thus,
the phase balance is maintained at the power frequency while at any other frequency, a phase imbalance is
created. To further enhance power oscillations damping, the TCSC is equipped with a supplementary controller.

A Simulink Model for Damping Power System Oscillations Using Fact Devices
Fig. 1. A schematic diagram of the hybrid series compensation scheme
The phase imbalance of the proposed scheme can be explained mathematically as follows:
1) At the power frequency, the series reactances between buses X and Y, in Fig. 1, in phases a, b, and c are
given by:
where –jXTCSCo is the effective capacitive reactance of the TCSC at the power frequency such that
Xa=Xb=Xc
2) During any other frequency, f
The first terms in (2) and (3) are different because of the difference in frequency. The third term in (3)
represents the change in the effective capacitive reactance of the TCSC due to the action of the TCSC
supplementary controller. This scheme would, definitely, be economically attractive when compared with a full
three-phase TCSC which has been used/proposed for power oscillations damping. Furthermore, reducing the
number of thyristor valves to one third will also have a positive impact on system reliability.
The effectiveness of the scheme in damping power swings and sub synchronous resonance oscillations
is reported in. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of the scheme in damping power system oscillations.
To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme in power system oscillations damping, the
system shown in Fig. 2 is adopted as a test benchmark. It consists of three large generating stations (G1, G2 and
G3) supplying two load centers (S1 and S2) through five 500 kV transmission lines. The two double-circuit
transmission lines L1 and L2 are series compensated with fixed capacitor banks located at the middle of the
lines. The compensation degree of L1 and L2 is 50%. The compensation degree is defined as the ratio
(XC/XL)* 100% for fixed capacitor compensated phases and (XCc+XTCSC)/XL* 100% for the hybrid
compensated phase.
The total installed capacity and peak load of the system are 4500 MVA and 3833 MVA respectively.
Shunt capacitors are installed at buses 4 and 5 to maintain their voltages within 1±0.05 p.u. Two loading profiles
designated as Load Profiles A and B are considered in the investigations of this paper. In Load Profile A, S1 =
1400 + j200 MVA and S2 = 2400 + j300 MVA while in Load Profile B, S1 = 2000 + j200 MVA and S2 = 1800
+ j300 MVA. The power flow results for the bus voltages and the line real power flows of the system for these
two loading profiles are shown in the Appendix.
Fig. 2. Test benchmark.

The single-phase TCSC is modeled in the EMTP-RV as a single module using an ideal thyristor pair
and an RC snubber circuit as shown in Fig. 3. A Phase Locked Loop (PLL) is used to extract phase information
of the fundamental frequency line current, which will be used to synchronize TCSC operation. The thyristor
gating control is based on the Synchronous Voltage Reversal (SVR) technique. The TCSC impedance is
measured in terms of a boost factor kB, which is the ratio of the apparent reactance of the TCSC seen from the
line to the physical reactance of the TCSC capacitor bank. A positive value of kB is considered for capacitive
operation. A low-pass filter based estimation algorithm is used to estimate the voltage and the current phasors. A
boost measurement block performs complex impedance calculations for the boost factor of the TCSC as kB =
ImagVˆC / IˆC /XCTCSC , where, VˆC and IˆC are the estimated phase voltage and current and XCTCSC is the
capacitive reactance of the TCSC capacitor branch at the fundamental frequency. A proportional-integral (PI)
control based boost level controller is implemented to control the TCSC boost level to the desired value by
adjusting the instant of the expected capacitor voltage zero crossing. The integral part of the controller helps in
removing the steady state errors. The controller parameters were determined by performing repeated time
domain simulations for the different operating conditions. This algorithm uses the difference between the actual
boost level and the reference boost level (err) shown in Fig. 3 as an objective function. The algorithm starts with
arbitrary initial values for the control parameters and calculates the values of the objective function each time. The
control parameters are incremented for the next iteration and the procedure is repeated until the objective function
approaches a minimum value (below a threshold value). The procedure described above is widely used by industry for
tuning of controller parameters.
Fig. 3. Block diagram of a TCSC controller
In Fig. 3, D(t) is a supplemental signal generated from an m-stage lead-lag compensation based
controller. As the real power flow in the transmission line is proportional to the inverse of the total line
reactance, the power swing damping can be achieved by properly modulating the apparent TCSC reactance
through this controller. The supplemental controller input (stabilizing) signals could be local (e.g. real power
flows) or remote (e.g. load angles or speed deviations of remote generators). If a wide-area network of
Synchronized Phasor Measurement (SPM) units is available, then the remote signals can be downloaded at the
controller in real time without delay. Local signals are generally preferred over remote signals as they are more
reliable since they do not depend on communications.
III. Case Studies
3.1 Load profile A
In this case, four different combinations of stabilizing signals (tabulated in Table I) are examined in
order to determine the combination that would result in the best system transient time responses. The final
results of the time-domain simulation studies (controllers tuning) are shown in Fig. 5 which illustrates the
generator load angles, measured with respect to generator 1 load angle, during and after fault clearing. The
transfer functions of the TCSC supplemental controllers for the four combinations are given in Table II.
Comparing the responses of the fixed series capacitor compensation to the hybrid TCSC compensation scheme
in Fig. 5, the positive contribution of the proposed hybrid scheme to the damping of the system oscillations is
very clear. As it can be seen from Fig. 5, the power swing damping controller effectively damps the system
oscillations. It can also be seen from Fig. 5 that the best damping of the relative load angle responses are
achieved with the del21-del21 combination. The second best damped responses are obtained with the del31-
del21 combination. These results should be expected due to the direct relationship between the relative load

angles and the generators that yield the problem. It can also be seen from Fig. 5 that the worst damped responses
are obtained with PL1- del21 combination which results also in the increase of the first swings
Fig 4: Fixed c
Hssc_d31d21_A:
FIG 5: DEL21
Fig 6 : DEL31

hssc_d31PL2_A
Fig 7 : DEL21
Fig 8 : DEL31
3.2 Load profile B
In this case, del21 is used as the supplementary controllers stabilizing signal. The transfer functions of
the TCSC supplemental controllers are given in Table III. Fig. 6 illustrates the generator load angles, measured
with respect to generator 1 load angle, during and after fault clearing. It can be seen from Fig. 6 that, at this
loading profile, the hybrid single-phase-TCSC scheme provides again a better damping performance to system
oscillations compared to fixed capacitor compensation. It is observed, however, that there is a slight increase in
the first swing of del21.
hssc_fixedcompensation_B
Fig 9:
Hssc_d21d21_B
Fig 10: Del 21

Fig 11: Del31
IV. CONCLUSION
The paper presents the application of fact devices in damping power system oscillations. The
effectiveness of the presented scheme in damping these oscillations is demonstrated through several digital
computer simulations of case studies on a test benchmark. The presented hybrid series capacitive compensation
scheme is feasible, technically sound, and has an industrial application potential.
.
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