OPTIMAL CONTROL OF REACTIVE POWER AND VOLTAGE BY FICTITIOUS VARIABLES METHOD

A method introducing fictious variables for resolving the linear model of reactive power and voltages control in power systems is presented. The method theoritically guarantees the resolvability and optimizition of linear programming model. This method has been proved successful by IEEE 6 -node test system and the several practical power systems such as 49-node, 155 -node systems.     

Application of Evolutionary Programming in Optimal Reactive Power Dispatch

This paper describes an application of evolutionary programming(EP) to reactive power optimization and voltage control of power systems.Some technical problems which conclude mutation sacle,fitness value and population size have been solved to make EP practical for solving the optimal power flow problems.The computational results with EP have been compared with those obtained from a conventional gradient based optimization method.The comparision shows that EP are better than conventional methods in dealing with the optimization of noncontinuous and nonsmooth funcnons.The EP show the ability to search for the global optimum in reactive optimization that has multiple optima.     

A Reactive Power OptimlZation Method by Linear Program ming with Secure Correction

This paper presents a reactive power optimization method which combines thelinear programming model with secure correction. In correction. this mOdel presents a new idea inwhich the feasible control region of con trol variables is resolved by over constrained state varlables. This method is quick and reliable and overcomes oscillation of a general linear programming model.     

APPLICATION OF DECOMPOSITION COORDINATION METHOD OF LARGE - SCALE SYSTEMS AND METHOD OF NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING TO ECONOMIC SCHEDULING OF POWER SYSTEM

In this paper,we discuss a mathematical mode) for optimization of active power dispatch of large-scale hydro-thermal power systems with cascaded hydropower stations. The following factors are taken into account: the variation of the head in the hydropower stations, water transport delay between cascaded stations etc. Using the decomposition-coordination method of large scale systems, we obtain a three-layer-hierarchical coordination system and a three-layer-hierarchical computational structure. We also discuss the computational methods which are used by each hierarchy. We have taken a test computation and analysing the result of an actual hydrothermal power system. The computational results show that it may obtain a satisfactory economic benefit. The paper provides some research work on the economic scheduling of hydrothermal power systems by the decomposition-coordination method of large-scale systems,multiplier method and a new variable metric method.     

OPTIMAL REACTIVE POWER FLOW BY SENSITIVITY METHOD

A new approach based on sensitivity method for the optimal power flow is presented in the paper. This method has the following advantages: it is suitable to solve a 200-node power system on the microcomputer; the convergence is easy to reach and the computation speed is quick; it is possible to reduce 8-14% power loss and to get maximum economic benefit by using this method; in power system dispatch center it can be used as an on-line voltage and reactive power control program to keep good voltage level. The proposed method has been proved successful by IEEE 118-node test system and the several real power systems such as 49-node, 61-node, 99-node and 200-node systems.     

CALCULATING APPROACH FOR SOLVING LARGE-SCALE POWER SYSTE WITH TOPOLOGY AND PARAMETER GHANGES

A straightforward and unified approach for solving the large-scale, faulted power systems is presented in this paper. In contrast .with conventional algorithms, the various changes of topology and impedance of the systems and its boundary conditions of fault can be handled flexibility and effectively in one-step procedure by proposed method, and it is convenient to choose the computational procedure more resonable according to the situation of power systems. One of the noteworthy features of the proposed method is the natural manner to handle mutual effects, and it is easy to design programs. The calculating technique for easy-to-program is given in this paper. It shows that effectiveness of calculating large-scale faulte power systems with topology and impedance changes by the modified current sources.     

OPTIMAL ACTIVE POWER ADJUSTMEMT OF LARGE HYBRID AC/DC SYSTEMS AFTER OUTAGE CONTINGENCIES WITH THE APPLICATION IN RELIABILITY EVALUATION

An optimal active power adjustment model is deve in this paper for hybrid AC/DC systems after outage contingencies. The objective of the model is to minimize the rejection of load when some elements are out of service, with adjustment strategy approaching practical system operation. A large number of outage contingencies are simulated when the Monte-Carlo Method is emyloyed to evaluate the system reliability, requiring fast calculation of each simulation. The model and computer method proposed in this paper satisfy such a requirment because of the application of concentric relaxation, recursive branch constraint treatment in linear programming and a direct method for B-1 matrix modification. This paper is concerned with the simplified steady state conditions of the system based on DC load-flow, which implies the reliability indices calculated are the measures about static loss of load. The results for a 14-bus hybrid AC/DC system are given.     

REAL POWER ECONOMIC RE-DISPATCH WITH SECURITY CONSTRAINS OF POWER SYSTEM

This paper reports on application of network flow programming to the real power economic redispatch with security constraints. For the contingency state which violates the line security constraints , the re-dispatching is performed by eliminating the curtailment of real loads. The network flow model is incremental, and is solved by OKA. Therefore, it is very simple, fast and accurate. The model and its solution algorithm are tested on JEEE 30 bus system and the encouraging results are obtained.     

A Reactive Power Optimization of Classic Method Combined with Lincar Programming

A tow-stage VAR optimization model is presented in this paper.First.the optimal solution is quickly solved by VAR classic method,which only considers the limitaryconditions of Reactive Power and reactiue power equation and yet linear increment model based onsensitivity is set up and linear programnung is employed to correct the overlimit varlables,Theoptimal resnlts in the tirst stdge are corrected to be feasible.The proposed method has beensuccessful in the sample systems and reai systems.     

An Improved Method of the Transient Waveform Analysis in Power Systems

The angular frequency and decaying constant of each copmonect for the transient waveform in power systems were obtained by using the discrete Fourier transform; the amplitude and phase angle were calculated in the linear curve fitting method. And all of the parameters obtained above were treated in an unified optimization by using the curve fitting optimization of the least square method of general nonlinear funcrion so as to get the results of waveform analysis. Two examples are included.     

AN A. C. LOAD FLOW ANALYSIS OF THE RELIABILITY EVALVATION OF COMPOSITE GENERATION AND TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS

An A. C. load flow analysis of the reliability evaluation of composite generation and transmission systems is presented on the basis of a fast outage simulation algorithm and an optimal model of active and reactive power adjustment after outage contingencies. The information of the first -level outage events is utilized for simulating higher -level outage events in the fast outage simulation algorithm ; the optimal model is satisfactory in speed and accuracy with the application of concentric relaxation and linear increment constraint on the comprehensive adjustment of active and reactive power. As an example. the IEEE Reliability Test System is tested and the results show that the method is accurate and well-matched in speed with the method studied by R. Bllinton, et al.     

EQUIVALENT-UNIT METHOD OF SHORT-TERM RELIABILITY EVALUATION FOR INTERCONNECTED POWER SYSTEMS

This paper presents the concept of equivalent-unit and the solution method of state probabilities for short-term reliability evaluation for generation systems. The ideas and methods are applied to evaluate short-term reliability of intercommected power systems,and the models of equivalent assistance,which can be conveniently combined with subsystem models,are propesed. The models and algorithm proposed not only solve the difficult problem of "state explosion" , but also improve the calculating accuracy. A numerical example is given to show that the models and algorithm are feasible and effective.     

Application of Linear Programming in the Steady-State Real Power Security Region

This paper presents a new rnethod for analysis and computation of steady-statereal power security region by linear programming.In this method based on the D.C load flow,theupper and lower bounds of the hyper-cuboid explicit steady-state security region are chosen asunknown variables.The objective function is the total amount of the adjustable generations withweighting factors.The model of the steady-state real power security region is changed in to the proposed linearprogramming methed for ealculation.The numerieal exarnples are tested on IEEE 6-bus and 30-bussample systems.The computational resuIts showed the proposed model a nd algorithm feasible andeffective.     

Approach for Calculating Short Circuit on Transrmission Lines by Using Piece-wise Method with Structure Network Fault

Based on the properties of linear network,a new generalized diakoptical modeland its algorithm are presented in the paper to calculate short circuit at the arbitrary location on anytransmission line of large-scale power systems,in which the proposed techniques of transferring faultport current,and modifying nodal current sources and column impedence elements, are appliedcomprekensively. The method given here is espocially efficient to calculate short circuit in piece-wisemethod for any mutually coupled cuts between subdivisions in the system with constant or variablestructures. And it is an important improvement for short-circuit current calculation.     

AN IMPROVED METHOD OF CALCULATION FOE UNSYMMETRICAL OPEN CONDUCTOR STATES IN THREE-PHASE POWER SYSTEMS

In this paper, the superposition and compensation theorems are employed to calculate the electric values under the unsymmetrical open conductor states in the three-phase power systems without modifying the bus admittance or the impedance matrices of the original networks. In cotrast with conventional algorithms, the method proposed here is highly accurate, fast, convenient and flexible. It can be applied to the unsymmetrical open conductor calculations which offered in power systems for its design and operation, to determine the settings of relay and automatic deyices, as well as accident analysis.     

The Probabilistic Production Simulation of Interconnected Generating Systems with Independent Loads

A new method, based on the direct method of weighting multiple normal distri butions, is proposed to evaluate the production costs of two interconnected systems. It can be applied in calculation of expected power generation, reliability indexes and production coats of two interconnected systems without their load correlation. The effect of the linking line on the interconnection is also studied.     

THE ECONOMIC DISPATCH OF REAL POWER WITH SECURITY

This paper presents an approach to studing the economic dispatch of real power with N-1 security with the network flow programming (NFP), the N-1 line - security constraints are first introduced into the network f olw model and the problem of N-1 security economic dispatch becomes an incremental metwork flow model. Therefore, the shortage of NFP is mitigated to some extent, The solution adopted is the "out-of-kilter"algorithm(OKA), which is characterized by fast calculation and reliable convergency. The model and solution are tested on IEEE 30-bus system, and the results show that the proposed approach is feasible.     

Hybrid Intelligent Method for Dynamic Reactive Power Optimization

In dynamic reactive power optimization problem(DRPO), action number constraints of discrete variables should be considered.By integrating immune genetic algorithm(IGA) and nonlinear interior point method(NIPM), a hybrid method for DRPO is proposed.First,the original DRPO problem is converted to a continuous optimization problem by relaxing the discrete variables,and the solution is obtained by NIPM.Then,according to the feature of control variables,the original DRPO problem is decomposed into a continuous optimization sub-problem and a discrete optimization sub-problem.The discrete optimization sub-problem is solved by IGA,and the continuous one is solved by NIPM.By solving the two sub-problems alternately,the optimal solution of the DRPO can be obtained.The proposed hybrid method combines advantages of IGA and NIPM,and finds the approximate optimal solution of DRPO.Numerical simulations on the IEEE 14 bus system illustrate that the proposed hybrid method is effective.     

A SELF-TUNING CONTROL FOR A PARALLEL AC/DC POWER SYSTEM

Based on a non-linear system model, an adaptive control methodology is presented for a parallel AC/DC power system by means of on-line recursive parameter identifications. Taking the advantage of rapid power regulatiing ability of the DC power system and combining with the generalized minimum variance self-tuning control principles, the dynamic qualities of the controlled system has been greatly improved. Using SISO form makes the control system very simple to implement. Through the design, simulation and analysis of the self-tuning control system for a practical example, it shows that the self-tuning control strategy is very promising for AC/DC power systems.     

THE DECENTRALIZED LOAD FREGUENCY CONTROL FOR MULTI-AREA POWER SYSTEMS

A decoupled load-frequency control model of a multi-area interconnecting power system is presented and a practical and effective decentralized control method is developed, which needs only its own state information and the information measured in it. It can also improve the stability and dynamic characters of the system. The dynamic simulation of the numerical example of a three-area interconnecting system with this controller showes the dynamic characters are almost the same as the centralized full state feedback optimal control.