Abstract

This paper discusses a novel approach for damping interarea oscillations in a bulk power network using multiple unified power flow controllers (UPFCs) utilizing ultracapacitors, also known more generally as electrochemical capacitors (ECs). In this paper, a new control is introduced to mitigate interarea oscillations by directly controlling the UPFCs' sending and receiving bus voltages that better utilizes the stored energy in the ECs. The results of this controller are compared with and without ECs. The proposed control provides better interarea oscillation mitigation when applied to multiple UPFCs in the 118-bus IEEE test system.

Department(s)

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Second Department

Computer Science

Sponsor(s)

National Science Foundation (U.S.)
United States. Department of Energy

Comments

Supported in part by the Department of Energy (DOE) Energy Storage Program through Sandia National Laboratories under Contract BD-0071-D and in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant ECCS 0701643

Keywords and Phrases

Electrochemical Capacitors (EC's); Oscillation Damping; Power System Stability; Unified Power Flow Controller (UPFC)

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

0885-8950

Document Type

Article - Journal

Document Version

Final Version

File Type

text

Language(s)

English

Rights

© 2010 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Feb 2010

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