A robust wide area measurement based controller for networks with embedded HVDC links
| dc.contributor.author | Agnihotri, Prashant | |
| dc.contributor.examiningcommittee | Liu, Yilu (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) Richards, Norman (Mechanical Engineering), Rajapakse, Athula (Electrical & Computer Engineering) | en_US |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Gole, Aniruddha (Electrical & Computer Engineering) | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-08-12T13:59:06Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-08-12T13:59:06Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
| dc.degree.discipline | Electrical and Computer Engineering | en_US |
| dc.degree.level | Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The advent of Wide-Area measurement Systems has spurred interest in the use of non-local feedback signals for power swing damping control. Although damping can be improved through generator excitation systems, dc links and other grid connected power electronic converters, the full potential of wide-area measurements can be realized by coordinating the strategies used for multiple controllable devices in a grid. These strategies also need to be robust to partial or complete loss of communication, changes in operating points, topology and equipment outages, improve damping of all the controllable swing modes, and have adequate stability margins to avoid destabilization of untargeted modes. This thesis investigates a control strategy for multi-infeed and multi-terminal (also referred to as multiple embedded dc links in this thesis) dc links using local frequency difference signals as well as the frequency difference signals obtained from other dc links. This strategy combines the advantages of the local frequency difference signal with the additional degrees of freedom provided by the use of non-local frequency difference signals, to achieve targeted and enhanced swing mode damping for the poorly damped modes. Since the strategy uses only a limited set of non-local signals, the signals may be directly communicated to the dc links without having to be centrally collated with other system-wide measurements. The key aspect of the proposed strategy is the use of a symmetric positive definite (spd) gain matrix. This results in enhanced damping for all controllable swing modes. Furthermore, loss of communication between the dc links does not destroy the symmetric positive definiteness and the gain elements can be tuned to selectively enhance damping of poorly damped modes. Eigenvalue sensitivity analysis and case studies on a 3 machine 9 bus and 16 machine 68 bus system with multiple HVDC links are presented to demonstrate the key attributes and the effectiveness of this strategy. | en_US |
| dc.description.note | October 2016 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1993/31576 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.rights | open access | en_US |
| dc.subject | HVDC, Wide Area Measurement, Power System dynamics | en_US |
| dc.title | A robust wide area measurement based controller for networks with embedded HVDC links | en_US |
| dc.type | doctoral thesis | en_US |