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Power System Stability

The document is an assignment on power system stability that defines and classifies different types of stability. It discusses rotor angle stability, voltage stability, and frequency stability. Rotor angle stability is further broken down into small disturbance angle stability, for minor events, and large disturbance angle stability, for major events like faults or large generator outages. Voltage stability refers to maintaining steady voltages during disturbances, and frequency stability means maintaining steady frequency following severe generation-load imbalances.

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Power System Stability

The document is an assignment on power system stability that defines and classifies different types of stability. It discusses rotor angle stability, voltage stability, and frequency stability. Rotor angle stability is further broken down into small disturbance angle stability, for minor events, and large disturbance angle stability, for major events like faults or large generator outages. Voltage stability refers to maintaining steady voltages during disturbances, and frequency stability means maintaining steady frequency following severe generation-load imbalances.

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Assignment 1 : power system stability

Subject: dynamic stability Submitted to: Mr. I.P. Singh Submitted by: Nishant Saxena

Power system stability :


1. Basic concept and definition of power system stability :
Power system stability is the ability of an electric power system, for a given initial operating condition, to regain a state of operating equilibrium after being subjected to a physical disturbance, with most of the system variables bounded so that practically the entire system remains intact. The disturbances mentioned in the definition could be faults, load changes, generator outages, line outages, voltage collapse or some combination of these. Power system stability can be broadly classified into rotor angle, voltage and frequency stability. Each of these three stabilities can be further classified into large disturbance or small disturbance, short term or long term.

2. Classification of stability : 2.1 Rotor angle stability: It is the ability of the system to remain in synchronism when subjected to a disturbance. The rotor angle of a generator depends on the balance between the electromagnetic torque due to the generator electrical power output and mechanical torque due to the input mechanical power through a prime mover. Remaining in synchronism means that all the generators electromagnetic torque is exactly balanced by the mechanical torque. If in some generator the balance between electromagnetic and mechanical torque is disturbed, due to disturbances in the system, then this will lead to oscillations in the rotor angle. Rotor angle stability is further classified into small disturbance angle stability and large disturbances angle stability.

Small-disturbance or small-signal angle stability : It is the ability of the system to remain in synchronism when subjected to small disturbances. If a disturbance is small enough so that the nonlinear power system can be approximated as a linear system, then the study of rotor angle stability of that particular system is called as small-disturbance angle stability analysis. Small disturbances can be small load changes like switching on or off of small loads, line tripping, small generators tripping etc. Due to small disturbances there can be two types of instability: non-oscillatory instability and oscillatory instability. In non-oscillatory instability the rotor angle of a generator keeps on increasing due to a small disturbance and in case of oscillatory instability the rotor angle oscillates with increasing magnitude. Large-disturbance or transient angle stability : It is the ability of the system to remain in synchronism when subjected to large disturbances. Large disturbances can be faults, switching on or off of large loads, large generators tripping etc. When a power system is subjected to large disturbances they will lead to large excursions of generator rotor angles. Since there are large rotor angle changes the power system cannot be approximated by a linear representation like in the case of small-disturbance stability. 2.2 Voltage stability : It is the ability of the system to maintain steady state voltages at all the system buses when subjected to a disturbance. If the disturbance is large then it is called as large-disturbance voltage stability. if the disturbance is small it is called as small-disturbance voltage stability. . The main difference between voltage stability and angle stability is that voltage stability depends on the balance of reactive power demand and generation in the system where as the angle stability mainly depends on the balance between real power generation and demand. 2.3 Frequency stability : It refers to the ability of a power system to maintain steady frequency following a severe disturbance between generation and load. It depends on the ability to restore equilibrium between system generation and load, with minimum loss of load. Frequency instability may lead to sustained frequency swings leading to tripping of generating units or loads.

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