Power systems are often subject to low frequency electro-mechanical oscillations resulting from electrical disturbances and consequence of the development of interconnection of large power system. Flexible Alternating Current Transmission System (FACTS) devices with Power Oscillation Damping (POD) as the supplemet controller has been recent research interest in damping the oscillation. Bees Algorithm (BA) is applied to optimized the parameters of the FACTS-POD controller. The main objective of optimization is to improve the system stability by moving the electro-mechanical eigenvalues on the s-plane to the left as far as possible. The controller is tested on a 3-machine 9-bus system and simulated in PSAT in MATLAB environment. The system is disturbed by increasing 10% mechanical input to Generator 2 and second disturbance is the system experiencing a three-phase fault. The performance of the system with the FACTS-POD controller is observed in terms of position of electromechanical eigenvalues on s-plane and damping responses of power oscillations where both terms shows significant improvement as compared to the system without FACTS-POD controller.
Power system is often vulnerable to low frequency electromechanical oscillations due to the interconnected configuration. A common lead-lag controller is used for one of the FACTS devices known as Thyristor Controlled Series Compensator (TCSC) as supplementary controller for damping purpose in order to improve transient stability and power oscillation damping of the system. As Bees Algorithm (BA) optimized the parameters of the TCSC lead-lag controller, thus its named is TCSC-BALL. In this study, the optimization problem is formulated as a constrained optimization with the main objective is to move the system eigenvalues to the left as far as possible in order to improve the system stability. Then, the system is simulated in MATLAB by using The Phillips-Heffron model for single machine infinite bus (SMIB) with responses of increases in mechanical power at t=1 second. The performance is observed in terms of electromechanical eigenvalues position on s-plane and damping responses of low-frequency oscillations where the system implemented with the TCSC-BALL controller given better results as compared to the system without and with the inclusion of conventional Power System Stabilizer (CPSS).
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