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Definitions

• VIP Voltage Instability Predictor
• the present invention relates generally to power systems and protective relays employed therein, and more particularly to new applications and methods of the Voltage Instability Predictor (VIP) disclosed in the ⁇ 983 application.
• VIP Voltage Instability Predictor
• Voltage instability is closely related to the notion of maximum loadability of a transmission network. In present-day power systems, this may take place as a precursor to the traditional frequency instability problem (see Proceedings of Bulk Power System Voltage Phenomena-Ill: “Voltage Stability, Security and Control,” Davos, Switzerland, Aug. 1994; and K. Vu, et al . , “Voltage Instability: Mechanisms and Control Strategies," Proc. of IEEE, Special Issue on Nonlinear Phenomena in Power Systems, pp. 1442-1455, Nov. 1995) . It is critical for the utility company to track how close the transmission system is to its maximum loading. If the loading is high enough, actions have to be taken to relieve the transmission system.
• a problem associated with tracking the maximum loading of the transmission system is that such maximum loading is not a fixed quantity, but rather depends on the network topology, generation and load patterns, and the availability of VAR resources. All of these factors can vary with time due to scheduled maintenance, unexpected disturbances, etc.
• K. Yabe, et al. "Conceptual Designs of Al-based Systems for Local Prediction of Voltage Collapse," IEEE 95 WM 181-8 PWRS .
• the idea is to simulate a range of system conditions to generate patterns in local observations. In the real environment, true measurements are then compared against known patterns, from which the proximity to collapse is inferred.
• the Voltage Instability Predictor As mentioned, the present application is a continuation-in-part of the ⁇ 983 application, which discloses a Voltage Instability Predictor, or VIP, that estimates the strength/weakness of a transmission system based on local voltage and current measurements, and compares that with the local demand. The closer the local demand is to the estimated transmission capacity, the more imminent is the voltage instability. This information is used for load shedding as well as other applications.
• the operation of the VIP may be summarized as follows: Current and voltage waveforms are measured at the bus, and then current and voltage phasors are derived. Based on the phasors, an apparent impedance associated with the load and a Thevenin impedance associated with the source are determined.
• Thevenin impedance and apparent impedances are then compared.
• the VIP decides whether to initiate a prescribed action, such as load shedding and/or controlling on-load tap-changing (OLTC) transformers, based on the relationship of the apparent impedance to the Thevenin impedance. Further details of the VIP are provided below.
• OLTC on-load tap-changing
• a Voltage Instability Predictor in accordance with the present invention estimates the proximity of a power system to voltage collapse in real time.
• the VIP can be implemented in a microprocessor-based relay whose settings are changed adaptively to reflect system changes. Only local measurements (voltage and current) at the bus terminal are required.
• the VIP can detect the proximity to collapse in a number of ways, including by monitoring the relationship between the apparent impedance Z app and the Thevenin-impedance, and by using "power margins.”
• the VIP may be used in connection with radial and non-radial topologies. Moreover, a robust method for tracking voltage collapse in terms of impedance using rolling sums is provided.
• a method for protecting an electrical power system comprises measuring current and voltage phasors at a point on the system; based on the current and voltage phasors, determining an apparent impedance (Zapp) associated with a
• Thevenin impedance Z Thev
• Thevenin impedance Z Thev
• a method for protecting an electrical power system comprises measuring current and voltage at a point on the system; based on the current and voltage measurements, determining a Thevenin impedance associated with a source region, and determining a power margin in accordance with a prescribed formula; and deciding whether to initiate a prescribed action based on the power margin.
• the power margin may be determined in accordance with the following process: obtaining data representing voltage and current at a plurality of points in time; determining the power observed at the present time; forecasting a maximum available power at a future time, based on the plurality of data points; computing a difference between the forecasted maximum available power and the observed current power; and defining the power margin based on the computed difference.
• FIG. 1 schematically depicts an electrical energy transmission system in accordance with the present invention.
• Figure 2 depicts an exemplary graph of a Thevenin impedance circle in the impedance plane and is referred to below in explaining that maximal power transfer, and thus voltage instability, occurs when the apparent impedance of the load intersects (or approaches a region surrounding) the Thevenin impedance circle.
• Figure 3 is a graph that is referred to below in contrasting the operation of a relay employing a VIP with that of a conventional undervoltage relay.
• Figure 6 is an exemplary graph of measured voltage and setpoint versus percent of base-case load.
• Figure 7 is an exemplary graph of MVAR supplied by the system versus MVAR consumed at the bus.
• Figure 8 is a flowchart of the operation of an adaptive relay employing a VIP. The flowchart depicts how local voltage and current measurements are processed to detect proximity to voltage collapse. In the flowchart, e > 0 represents a margin that is settable by the user.
• FIG. 9 schematically depicts an inventive system in which VIP-based devices (or Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs)) are distributed in a wide area network.
• VIP-based devices or Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs)
• IEDs Intelligent Electronic Devices
• Figure 10 schematically depicts an application of the VIP to a non-radial topology.
• Figure 11 schematically depicts the arrangement of Figure 10 with the monitored tie line replaced.
• Figure 12 depicts exemplary impedance profiles, i.e., graphs of impedance versus power.
• Figure 13 depicts exemplary voltage profiles, or graphs of bus voltage versus power.
• Figure 14 illustrates an exemplary graph of Trek(V) versus Trek(I), where Trek() is a rolling sum function.
• Figure 15 schematically depicts a data processing circuit for computing Thevenin impedance in accordance with the present invention.
• Figure 16 depicts an exemplary graph of voltage magnitude versus current magnitude.
• Figure 17 schematically depicts a method for forecasting available MVA in accordance with the present invention.
• Figure 18 depicts an exemplary graph of power margin versus time.
• Figure 19 depicts an exemplary voltage profile, i.e., a graph of voltage versus time.
• Section A we repeat the description of the VIP as set forth in the 983 application.
• Section B we describe several new applications of, and methods for use in, the VIP. These include (1) application of the VIP in connection with non- radial topologies; (2) a method for tracking voltage collapse in terms of impedance using rolling sums; and (3) a method for representing distance to voltage collapse in terms of power margins.
• a "radial" topology as a topology or configuration in which there is only one path from the source to the point of interest (e.g., the load).
• a "non-radial" or meshed topology is where there are multiple paths.
• the following power-flow equation ties the voltage V at the load bus to the power demand P+jQ.
• the relay logic is quite simple and involves checking how close Z app is to the Z ⁇ hev circle.
• Z app being the apparent impedance of the load, is readily available from local measurements. It is the tracking of the Thevenin impedance Z ⁇ hev that makes the relay adaptive.
• the Thevenin impedance can be obtained via a parameter-estimation process.
• the fundamental equation that ties Z Thev to Z app is:
• the three unknowns are R ⁇ hev , X Thev and E Thev and the set of measurements is ⁇ r app , x app , I ⁇ . If three or more measurement sets are acquired, the equation can be solved for the unknowns.
• Trajectory #2 has entered the voltage instability region but the condition is not recognized by the undervoltage relay.
• Figure 1 depicts a load bus and the rest of the system treated as a Thevenin equivalent.
• Equating the receiving and sending currents one has (note that the subscript "Thev” has been dropped from E) :
• Equation (1) which is quadratic, admits at most two voltage solutions V. Observe the symmetry in equation (1); that is, if V is one solution then the other solution can be found simply by computing (E-V) * . The two solutions become one (i.e., bifurcation) at maximal power transfers; a further increase in power demand will yield no solution.
• V (E-VT (2) Plugging in the apparent impedance reveals that maximal power transfer occurs when,
• the VIP tracks the Thevenin impedance and uses it as the reference for voltage stability. This idea was suggested briefly in D. Novosel et al . , "Practical Protection and Control Strategies During Large Power-System Disturbances," IEEE T&D Conf. Proceedings, Los Angeles, Sep. 15-20, 1996.
• Equation (5; can be rewritten as:
• the standard IEEE 39-bus system is chosen for the exemplary system. To simulate voltage collapse, the demand at each of the load buses is gradually increased until the power-flow equations become unsolvable. For illustration, the same percentage of load increase is used for all loads. The critical percentage is 163.4%.
• a relay incorporating a monitoring device, or VIP is placed at each load bus to process the local measurements (bus voltage and load current) based on a least-squares fitting and a moving window.
• the monitoring device's output is a stream of Thevenin parameters (as a function of time) . Note that each monitoring device has access to the local information only and is unaware of the changes that take place in the rest of the network. Those changes can involve load increases at other buses and generators reaching reactive limits.
• the ability to track the Thevenin parameters is a numerical issue and is only part of the picture.
• the other part, even more important, is to check whether the estimated Thevenin impedance always merges with the load impedance at the point of collapse. That is, the main purpose of the numerical examples is to verify the theoretical condition of equation (4) in a multi-node network.
• Figure 4 depicts the variation in the local apparent impedance
• the load increase is evident by a decaying load-impedance profile.
• the Thevenin impedance increases slightly until the load level reaches 145%, after which there occur a number of sharp rises (at 146%, 149%, 160% and beyond) .
• a check with a power-flow solver reveals that these points coincide with individual generators reaching their respective reactive limits.
• V V/ I ⁇ -_ I app For illustration, assume that the Thevenin voltage at the present moment is 1.05 p.u. Then the under-voltage relay operates when
• ⁇ Z app I 0.95 which represents a circle in the impedance plane.
• the relative position between such a circle and the Thevenin circle is shown in Figure 3.
• the two circles clearly do not coincide.
• the Thevenin circle represents maximal power transfer (relation (4)).
• the two circles do not overlap represents misoperation of the conventional under-voltage relay.
• An impedance trajectory such as #1 is yet to reach maximal power transfer, but is treated by the conventional relay as voltage instability.
• An impedance trajectory such as #2 has clearly reached maximal transfer yet it is not detected by the conventional relay.
• the VIP can be advantageously implemented and viewed as an adaptive relay. Two different interpretations are presented below.
• the second interpretation is based on equation (2), which implies that at the point of collapse the load voltage is equal to the voltage drop across the Thevenin impedance.
• This interpretation can be seen clearly when one multiplies the two curves in Figure 4 with the load current profile. The result is shown in Figure 6.
• the top curve is associated with the (measured) load voltage, and the bottom curve the (calculated) voltage drop across the Thevenin impedance. If one views the bottom curve as the voltage setpoint of the relay, then clearly the setpoint is tuned so that, at the collapse, the load voltage is equal to the setpoint. Therefore, the monitoring device is a voltage relay with an adaptive setpoint.
• the adaptive setpoints can experience a sharp jump if there is a change in the network structure.
• the change is a PV-node switched to a PQ-node.
• Such a sharp transition poses a challenge with respect to implementation of the VIP.
• the "distance to collapse" is about 0.15 (per unit impedance) when the load level is 160%; however, a slight increase in load cuts this distance to 0.07. This means that it is risky to wait for the distance to drop to zero before issuing control actions.
• margin In contrast to the inventive method most effectively, one should act on the conservative side. That is, one should set a margin and the device should act when the margin is violated.
• the choice of margin depends on the bus, and also involves heuristics. For example, one may want to set the margin for bus 23 to be 0.15 (per unit impedance) . With this choice, the voltage collapse is "detected" when the load reaches 160%. This impedance-based margin can be converted to power (I 2 Z), in which case the margin represents the extra megawatts (MW) or MVAR that can be delivered to the bus before voltage collapse can take place. Thus, the load at a bus is deemed excessive when the power margin is violated. Load can be shed so as to restore the margin. Clearly, the amount of load to be shed is not fixed and thus the monitoring device provides a form of adaptive load shedding.
• Sensitivity-based load shedding is another method whose analysis was given in M. Begovic and A. Phadke, "Control of Voltage Stability Using Sensitivity
• the method was described for a central-control application. In the following paragraph, we provide a variation of the method where local data are used.
• One way to determine whether the load is excessive is by comparing the amount of power supplied by the Thevenin source (see Figure 1) and the power actually consumed at the bus.
• the case for bus 23 is depicted in Figure 7.
• the vertical axis is the MVAR supplied by the Thevenin source, represented as percentage of the received MVAR. For example, when the MVAR demand at the bus reaches 1.27 p.u., the source has to supply 200% of that amount; that is, for every 2 units sent, 1 is lost in the transmission.
• This analysis can be used to guide the selection of a threshold.
• Thevenin impedance (
• FIG 9 illustrates how a plurality of local VIP-based devices 20 (also called Intelligent Electronic Devices) may be connected through a wide area network comprising one or more regional control computer (s) 30 and a public or private information network 40 to a global controller/coordinator 50.
• VIP-based monitoring devices processing only local measurements are to be counted upon when other emergency controls fail to mitigate the situation. They also form the fall-back position for any global protection scheme when communications channels fail.
• the inventive monitoring device identifies the Thevenin equivalent of the network as seen from the local substation. This device can be used to assess the available power margins. The device may be developed so as to be only minimally sensitive to measurement errors.
• Proximity to a steady-state voltage instability can be tracked by estimating the Thevenin equivalent of the network as seen from the local substation. At the point of collapse, the Thevenin impedance is equal to the load's apparent impedance (in the absolute-value sense) .
• a relay employing the VIP functions like a voltage relay with an adaptive setting. Potential uses of the VIP include (1) to impose a limit on the loading at each bus and to shed load when the limit is exceeded, and (2) to enhance existing voltage controllers such as static VAR compensators (SVCs) . Coordinated control can be obtained if communication links are available, in which case, the output from each monitoring device can be sent to and combined at a central computer for a global decision. In such a multi-level hierarchy, the upper-level control normally takes precedence over local devices; however, in case of emergency, each monitoring device makes its own decision.
• the same conditions are replicated in the postulated system in Figure 11, with the source-link combination continuously tuned.
• the VIP placed in the physical system observes the same data as the VIP in the postulated system.
• the VIP site fits the situation described in Figure 1 above. In other words, the VIP can be placed on a tie line to determine whether the flow has reached an insecure level.
• the VIP method was verified using the standard IEEE 39-bus system for the cases of radial placement, such as the one presented in Figure 1, where there was a clear distinction between the sink and the source.
• the VIP is tested in a non- radial topology as shown in Figure 10, on a large system of several thousand nodes.
• Computer simulations have been performed on the large system with voltage collapse being created by increasing the load demand until the power flow simulations became unsolvable.
• VIP devices were placed at selected load buses and on tie lines, each processing local measurements (bus voltage and line current) during the simulations .
• FIG. 12 shows the magnitudes of the apparent and Thevenin impedances (labeled
• Figure 13 shows the value of the measured bus voltage and the calculated voltage drop across the Thevenin impedance (labeled V raeas and setpoint respectively) . This figure shows that the point of collapse (when the power flow becomes unsolvable) occurs when the quantities become equal.
• the device setpoint would be established such that, at the point of voltage collapse, the bus voltage is equal to the setpoint.
• the voltage is not a good indicator of system instability since the decay voltage is not very evident at the point of system collapse (power flow simulations became unsolvable) . This verifies that the VIP method described in the '983 application can be applied to non-radial cases.
• Tracking Vol tage Collapse Using Rolling Sums As described in the ⁇ 983 application, tracking closeness to voltage instability can be accomplished by tracking the distance of the present-time apparent impedance to the Thevenin impedance.
• One challenge to the VIP is the
• Thevenin impedance ( Zrhev ) is not a fixed quantity because it represents the rest of the system lumped together — a conglomeration of many different electrical entities, any of which can change status at a given time. More likely during problems of voltage instability, Thevenin impedance grows (transmission becoming weaker) and apparent impedance diminishes (load becoming heavier) . In the 983 application, the method of least squares was used to track the Thevenin equivalent. For implementation in an electronic device, least-squares is computationally demanding. This patent document provides a more robust and device-friendly way of tracking Thevenin impedance than presented in the ⁇ 983 application. (Note that only Thevenin impedance is needed in the prediction of voltage instability.)
• Thevenin parameters ( E ⁇ .ev and Zrhev) fluctuate or drift in time. Use subscript n to denote the values at time t n . We have :
• Data preprocessing refers to the first step of the VIP method, in which Trek(V) and Trek (I) are produced.
• the Trek(V) vs. Trek (I) curve may look quite smooth in the global view. However, in a blown-up view, the curve can have many jagged edges.
• the numerical challenge is to produce a smooth estimate of the slope. The smoothing is done in two steps, preliminary smoothing and final smoothing, which are described below. 2. 2 Preliminary Smoothing
• Figure 15 illustrates the "data preprocessing" step (producing Trek(V) and Trek(I)), followed by the preliminary smoothing.
• Circular arrays are used to store selected values of Trek(V) and Trek(I) according to the following rules:
• Step 0 Let y_ and x_ be the most recent values stored in the circular arrays, voltage and current respectively.
• Step 2 If (y - y_) is greater than a prescribed threshold d v OR if (x - x_) is greater than a prescribed threshold d l r then (a) store both y and x in the respective circular arrays, and (b) continue with Step 3.
• Step 3 Calculate Z ⁇ hev :
• Step 4 Replace y_ and x_ with the most current values of y and x, respectively.
• Step 5 Go to Step 1.
• the final smoothing is applied in the form of a digital filter as shown in (10) :
• Z ⁇ hev,k is an estimate of Z ⁇ hev at time k
• Z ⁇ hev,k is calculated as (9) at time k, Z ⁇ hev,k- ⁇ is an estimate of Z ⁇ t ⁇ ev at time k-1, and
• ⁇ is a smoothing constant ( 0 ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ 1 ) .
• the VIP is placed at a substation feeding a radial load.
• the user wants to know how much extra MVA (MVA is the unit of power) can be drawn by the substation before the voltage collapses.
• MVA is the unit of power
• the VIP is placed on a tie line (where the tie line is an important physical path in the wheeling of power from one geographical region to another) .
• the user wants to know the how much extra power can be pushed through this tie line before a collapse occurs.
• Figure 16 shows a scatter plot for V versus I (i.e., voltage magnitude vs. current magnitude).
• the entire curve is typical for a multi-node system driven to a collapse by a gradual increase of the nodal loads: as the load gets stronger (increase in I), the voltage decreases.
• the slope of the curve at each point is equal to the value of ⁇ Z ⁇ hev at the corresponding time instant.
• the distance to collapse is the difference between
• an impedance margin is a non-intuitive quantity, and it may be better to address the distance in terms of power margin.
• the dotted curve represents the overall shape of the V-I scattered plot.
• the present-time point is labeled "c" which lies on the dotted curve.
• the data points prior to c are known to the VIP device; the rest of the dotted curve is unknown to the device.
• the straight line emanating from c represents the projected behavior of the (V,I) points.
• the forecast is linear, and is tangent to the recorded data at point c.
• Reabed is equal to the power (MVA) observed by the VIP at the present time.
• VMA power observed by the VIP at the present time.
• Area aefg is the (forecasted) maximum power using the linear forecast. (See below for the calculation. )
• Figure 17 depicts a method for forecasting the available
• the MVA margin is the difference ("Area aefg") - ("Area abed”) .
• the forecast margin is computed based on linear extrapolation of recorded data.
• the forecast is exact if the Thevenin equivalent stays unchanged.
• the "forecast” line remains coincide with the "true future” line (dotted) for some time after the present time.
• the forecast power "Area aefg” remains unchanged and is a good estimate.
• a new forecast line must be built, and this would change the value of "Area aefg”.
• the new value for "Area aefg" will be smaller than the old one.
• the forecast is always optimistic, but as the system is getting more and more loaded, the forecast becomes more accurate.
• the linear forecast as described above is used when the VIP has no knowledge of the loading beyond its present loading. However, if the loading beyond its present point has been encountered in the past, the VIP can produce more accurate margins. For example, the entire dotted line in Figure 17 could have been available in the memory of the VIP device due to data experienced some days ago. The large dot still represents the present-time data. Instead of using the linear forecast ("Area aefg") , the VIP can use the dotted curve as the forecast.
• the above description of presently preferred embodiments of the invention is not intended to limit the scope of protection of the following claims.
• the following claims are not limited to applications involving three-phase power systems or power systems employing a 50 Hz or 60 Hz fundamental frequency.
• the claims are not limited to relays associated with any particular part (i.e., transformer, feeder, high power transmission line, etc.) of a power system.
• the VIP can also be coded into many types of microprocessor-based controllers.
• One example is to control on-load tap-changing (OLTC) transformers. Such transformers tend to drain the reactive power from the system to support the voltage on the load side.
• OLTC on-load tap-changing
• the VIP can detect when the drain becomes excessive, and thus the decision to block the OLTC can be carried out.
• Another exemplary use of the present invention is to enhance the performance of SVCs by adding voltage-collapse prediction.
• SVC behavior can mask an imminent collapse, leading to sudden and unexpected loss of power supply.
• the VIP can be used to ensure accurate collapse prediction, taking into account the SVC operation.

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