Load Frequency Control of Three Area Power System using Fuzzy Logic Controller

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Load Frequency Control of Three Area
Power System using Fuzzy Logic Controller
K. Sumanth Kumar, S. Thirumalaiah
EEE Department, KV Subba Reddy Institute of Technology, Dupadu, Andhra Pradesh, India
ABSTRACT
This paper proposes a method to determine the magnitude and location of
load disturbances in multi-area power systems via monitoring tie-line power
flows, implementing demand response regionally. In this work, proposes an
intelligent coordination between secondary control and demand response
through a supervisory fuzzy-PI-based coordinator. The simulations were
performed in the environment of MATLAB/SIMULINK.
KEYWORDS: Multi-Area Power System, Load Frequency Control, fuzzy-PI-based
coordinator
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I. INRODUCTION
Understanding of the frequency dynamics of power systems
is essential for several issues including frequency control
design and estimation of the system inertia through
measurements. Consider a power system with several
conventional synchronous generators. If this power system
is subjected to a disturbance such as a sudden outage of a
generator, then dynamical changes in the system start
instantaneously. These dynamics are mainly caused by the
instantaneous power imbalance between the instantaneous
generation and consumption of electric power.
Consequently, the remaining synchronous generators are
subjected to acceleration and decelerationeffects.Dueto the
strong connection between the mechanical and electrical
frequency, the changes in the rotor speed results in changes
in the electrical frequency. Eventually, the power balance
and the frequency are restored in the system has sufficient
capacity to compensate the lost generation. This control
action is called primary Automatic Load Frequency Control
(ALFC). In this direction, the load-frequency control (LFC)is
one of important control problems in concerning the
integration of wind power turbine in a multi-area power
system [2, 8, 18, 20, 21].The increasing need for electrical
energy in the twenty-first century, as well as limited fossil
fuel reserves, very high transportation and fuel cost and the
increasing concerns with environmental issues for the
reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse
gasses, causes fast development in the area of renewable
energy sources (RESs). One of the adaptive and nonlinear
intelligent control techniques that can be effectively
applicable in the frequency control design is reinforcement
learning (RL). Some efforts are addressed in [3, 4, 5, 7, 16,
17]. RL based controllers learn and are adjusted to keep the
area control error small enough in each sampling time of a
LFC cycle. Since, these controllers are based on learning
methods; they are independent of environment conditions
and can learn a wide range of operating conditions. The RL
based frequency control design is a model-free design and
can easily scalable for large scale systems and suitable for
frequency variation caused by wind turbine fluctuation.
Using conventional linear control methodologiesfortheLFC
design in a modern power system is not more efficient,
because they are only suitable for a specific operating point
in a traditional structure. If the dynamic/structureofsystem
varies; they may not perform as expected. Most of
conventional control strategies provide model based
controllers that are highly dependent to the specific models,
and are not useable for large-scale power systems
concerning the integration of RES units with nonlinearities,
undefined parameters and uncertain models. If the
dimensions of the power system increase,thenthesecontrol
design may become more different as the number of the
state variables also increases,significantly.Therefore,design
of intelligent controllers that are more adaptive and flexible
than conventional controllers is become an appealing
approach. When WTGs are introduced to the power system,
as they generate a part of power system loads, much portion
of conventional nominal power can be available for using in
supplementary control. However,asthevariable windfarms
power output may or may not be available during peak
demand and abnormal periods, due to unpredictable nature
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of wind; it might be that these resources cannot contribute
to the overall system frequency regulationand reliability.On
the other hand, the additional power variation from WTGs
results in frequency deviation. It seems that for a large wind
power penetration, this deviation will be so larger and as a
result, the conventional LFC reserve may be insufficient to
maintain frequency within the bounds for service quality. It
was found that wind power, does not impose major extra
variations on the system until a substantial penetration is
reached [11]. Large geographical spreading of wind power
will reduce variability, increasespredictability,anddecrease
the occasions with near zero or peak output [22]. It is
investigated in [11] that the power fluctuation from
geographically dispersed wind farms will be uncorrelated
with each other, hence smoothing the sum power and not
imposing any significant requirement for additional
frequency regulation reserve,andrequired extra balancingis
small.
The fluctuation of the aggregated wind power output in a
short term (e.g., tens of seconds) for a largernumberof wind
turbines are much smoothed. It is investigated that the wind
turbines aggregation has positive effects on the regulation
requirement. Relative regulation requirement decreases
whenever larger aggregations are considered [22].
II. POWER GENERATING SYSTEM
The relationship between ΔPm and Δf is shown in Fig.1,
where M is the inertia constant of the generator.
Fig.1: Block diagram of the generator
If the mechanical powerremainsunchanged,themotorloads
will compensate the load change at a rotor speed that is
different from a scheduled value, which is shown in Fig.2.
Where, D is the load damping constant.
The reduced form of Fig.2 is shown in Fig.3, which is the
generator model that we plan to use for the LFC design. The
Laplace-transform representation of the block diagram is
shown in Fig.3.
Fig.2: Block diagram of the generator with load
damping effect
Fig.3: Reduced block diagram of the generator with
the load damping effect
Governors are the units that are used in power systems to
sense the frequency bias caused by the load change and
cancel it by varying the inputs of the turbines.Theschematic
diagram of a speed governing unit is shown in Fig.4,whereR
is the speed regulation characteristic and Tg is the time
constant of the governor [1].
Fig.4: Schematic diagram of a speed governing unit
The reduced form of Fig.4 is shown in Fig.5. The Laplace
transform representation of the block diagram in Fig.5 is
given by
Fig.5: Reduced block diagram of the speed governing
unit
In an interconnected power system, different areas are
connected with each other via tie-lines. When the
frequencies in two areas are different, a power exchange
occurs through the tie-line that connectedthetwoareas.The
tie-line connections can be modeled as shown in Fig.6.
Fig.6: Block diagram of the tie-lines
With the power generating unitsandthetie-lineconnections
of interconnected areas introduced and a complete form of
one-area power generating unit can be constructed as Fig.7.
Fig.7: Schematic of one-area power generating unit
The communication delays can be mainly considered on the
control input and the control output of the LFC system: The
delays on the measured frequency and power tie-line flow

from RTUs to the control center, which can be reflected into
the ACE and the produced control command signal from
control center to individual generation units. A simplified
time-delayed LFC system is shown in Fig. 8.
Fig.8: A general control area with time delays
III. MULTI-AREA POWER SYSTEM
Fig. 9 is a control block diagram for the ith area of a multi
area power system. Although a power system is nonlinear
and dynamic, the linearized model is permissible in the load
frequency control problem because only small changes in
load are expected during its normal operation [21].
Fig.9: Block diagram of the ith area of a multi-area
power system
IV. FUZZY-PI-CONTROLLER
Most robust and optimal load–frequency control methods
published in the last two decades suggest complex state-
feedback or high-order dynamic controllers[1–8],which are
impractical for industry practices.
In practice, LFC systems use simple proportional–integral
(PI) controllers. However, sincethePIcontrollerparameters
are usually tuned based on experiences, classical or trial-
and-error approaches, they are incapable of obtaining good
dynamical performance for a wide range of operating
conditions and various load changes scenarios in a multi-
area power system. Recently, some control methods have
been applied to the design of decentralized robust PI orlow-
order controllers to solve the LFC problem [9–12].
Fuzzy logic is used to cope with this phenomenon, i.e.,
protecting the system against excessive
overshoots/undershoots and consequently reducing CO2
emission and to adjust the responsive generators according
to the amount of regulation provided by the RDR. Therefore,
fuzzy logic is used not only for handling control actions, but
also for making coordination between generation side and
demand side. Minimizing the frequency deviations due to
fast changes in output power of wind turbines, and limiting
the tie-line power interchanges in an acceptable range are
the other goals of this effort. Furthermore, the fuzzy logic is
able to compensate the inability of the classic control theory
for covering complex power systems with uncertainties and
inaccuracies. Recent work oftheauthorsin[2]demonstrates
that fuzzy logic can be used as a suitable intelligent method
for online tuning of PI controller parameters. In this case,
fuzzy logic is used as a supervisor for fine tuning of
conventional PI controllers. In the present work, the PI
controller is remained, and the fuzzy logic is used for on-line
tuning of its parameters. Therefore, this control
configuration provides a smoothperformanceinstartupand
transient circumstances and it could be more acceptable for
real-time LFC application.
V. SIMULATION RESULTS
The three-area interconnected power system is analyzed to
illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed control scheme.
In order to validate the proposed topology, simulation is
carried out using the Matlab/Simulink. Fig.8 and Fig.9 is
simulated to evaluate the performance of Fuzzy-PI for three
area power system. As can be seen, there is a significant
resemblance betweentheestimatedandactual loadchanges.
Fig. 10 (b) and Fig. 10 (c) show that the proposed RDR can
effectively reducetheamountofthefrequencyexcursion and
variations, and also demonstrate that the tie-line power
changes are maintained within a narrow band.
0 50 100 150 200 250 300
0
20
40
Time (s)
DeltaPLoad(MW)
Estimated load change
Actual load change
(a)
0 50 100 150 200 250 300
-0.2
-0.1
0
0.1
Time (s)
Delta_f(Hz)
Conventional PI
Conventional PI& RDR
(b)
0 50 100 150 200 250 300
-0.1
0
0.1
0.2
Time (s)
Delta_Ptie_1(pu)
Conventional PI
0 50 100 150 200 250 300
-0.1
0
0.1
0.2
Time (s)
Delta_Ptie_2(pu)
Conventional PI
0 50 100 150 200 250 300
-0.1
0
0.1
0.2
Time (s)
Delta_Ptie_3(pu)
Conventional PI
(c)
Fig.11 comparison of conventional PI controller
versus the RDR contribution

A random step loads are applied to all three areas according
to Fig. 12(a). System frequency response and tie-line power
changes, in the case of comparing the performance of
conventional controllers versusparticipationoftheRDR and
supervisory fuzzy-PI-based coordinator are given in Fig.
12(b) and Fig. 12(c), respectively. Theobtainedresultsshow
that the designed method can ensure a good performance in
a multi-area power system in the existence of random step
load changes and wind power fluctuations.
0 50 100 150 200 250 300
-20
0
20
40
60
Time (s)
Delta_PLoad(MW)
Area1
Area2
Area3
(a)
0 50 100 150 200 250 300
-0.2
-0.1
0
0.1
0.2
Time (s)
Delta_f(Hz)
Conventional PI
Conventional PI& RDR & Supervisory coordinator
(b)
0 50 100 150 200 250 300
-0.1
0
0.1
Time (s)
Delta_Ptie_1(pu)
Conventional PI
0 50 100 150 200 250 300
-0.2
-0.1
0
0.1
0.2
Time (s)
Delta_Ptie_2(pu)
Conventional PI
0 50 100 150 200 250 300
-0.2
-0.1
0
0.1
0.2
Time (s)
Delta_Ptie_3(pu)
Conventional PI
(c)
Fig.12: System response following a sequence of step
load changes in all areas
VI. CONCLUSIONS
A fuzzy-PI-based supervisory controller is introduced as a
coordinator between the demand response and secondary
frequency control to adjust the responsive generators
according to the amount of regulation provided by the RDR.
This coordinator will covernotonlythesystemuncertainties
but also time delay side effects of the RDR scheme.
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K. Sumanth Kumar has received B. Tech
in the year of 2015 from RGMCET,
Nandyal. He is pursuing M. Tech from the
Dr. K. V. Subba Reddy Institute of
Technology, Kurnool.Hisareasofinterest
include Power System, PowerElectronics
and Electrical Machines.
S. Thirumalaiah is an Asst. Professor at
KV Subba Reddy Institute of Technology,
Kurnool. He has 12 years of experiencein
power system and power electronics
field. He has published several
international and national conferences
and journals. He has attended several
international and notional workshops.

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