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Load Frequency
requency Control
trol in Three Area Power System
using Fuzzy Logic Controller
Nazia Kosser
M.Tech Scholar, Electrical Engineering Department
Department,
Yamuna Institute of Engineering & Technology
Technology, Gadhauli, Yamunanagar, Haryana,
Haryana India

ABSTRACT

In interconnected power system load frequency tie-lines

lines produce unpredictable load changes and also,
control has been used extensively. This study presents generated and demand powers are not equal. Such
an application of a fuzzy gain scheduled proportional difficulties are taken care of by AGC systems which
and integral (FGPI) controller for load load-frequency are also called load-frequency
frequency control (LFC)
(L and are
control of a three-area
area electrical interconnected ppower being improved over the years [4]. Load frequency
system. The main aim is to design a FGPI controller control, a technical requirement for the proper
that can ensure good performance. The paper present operation of an interconnected power system, is very
analysis on dynamic performance of Load Frequency important for supplying reliable electric power with
Control (LFC) of three area interconnected thermal good quality. The goals of the LFC are to t maintain
non-reheat
reheat power system by the use of Fuzzy zero steady state errors in a multi-area
multi interconnected
Intelligence.
telligence. The fuzzy rules are developed to ensure power system and to fulfill the requested dispatch
there is minimum frequency deviation occur when conditions [5]. During last decades, several studies on
load is changed. The proposed controller limits the the load frequency control in interconnected power
frequency deviations effectively as compared to systems have been presented in the literature.
conventional controller. The results has been verified Different control strategies have been suggested based
by using MATLAB/Simulink software. on the conventional linear control theory [6–8], [6
among others. Since, the dynamics of a power system
Keywords: Load frequency control, Classical control, even for a reduced mathematical model is usually
Optimal Control, Adaptive control, Energy storage nonlinear, time-variant
variant and governed
governe by strong cross-
systems couplings of the input variables, the controllers have
I. INTRODUCTION to be designed with special care [9]. Thus, a gain
scheduling controller had been used for nonlinear
In power systems, active and reactive power flows systems by some researcher e.g. [5]. In this method,
function independently. Therefore, different control control parameters can be changed
cha very quickly since
blocks are used to control them. The automatic parameter estimation is not required, and thus system
generation control (AGC) is the major technique for outputs are obtained faster with higher quality as
solving this problem [1]. Interconnected electrical compared with conventional controllers. However, in
power systems operate together adjusting their powe
power the same method, the transient response can be
flows and frequencies at all areas by AGC. In this unstable because of abruptness ss in system parameters.
study, a three-area
area power system is considered to Also, accurate linear time invariant models cannot be
control power flows. A power system has a dynamic obtained at variable operating points [5]. Recently,
characteristic meaning that it can be affected by FGPI controllers have been proposed to solve the
disturbances and changes at the operating point [2,3]
[2,3]. above mentioned difficulties in power systems. For
Given that frequencies at the areas and power flows in

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example, [5] and [10] developed
veloped different fuzzy rules the primary speed control has done its job. In this
for the proportional and integral gains separately and case, response time
me may be of the order of 1 min
showed that response of power systems can be further
improved using fuzzy logic controller [11]. In this
study, a FGPI controller was designed with seven
triangular membership
ship functions to LFC application
in a two-area
area power system for generating electricity
with good quality. In the design of the controller,
rules for the gains (Kp and Ki) are chosen to be
identical in order to improve the system performance.
Settling timess and overshoots of the systems and
absolute integral values were utilized as comparison
criteria to evaluate the performance of controllers. It
Fig. 1. The interconnection scheme of an uncontrolled
was shown that the proposed FGPI controller
generally has better performance than the other three-area
area power system
controllers.
III. MODELLING OF POWER SYSTEM
II. INTERCONNECTED
TERCONNECTED ELECTRICAL POWER The three-area
area interconnected power system used in
SYSTEMS this study is displayed in Fig. 2 where f is the system
Interconnected power systems consist of many control frequency (Hz), Ri is regulation constant (Hz per
areas connected by tie-lines.
lines. The block scheme of an unit), is speed governor time constant (s), Tt is turbine
uncontrolled three-area
area power system is shown in Fig. time constant (s), Tp is power system time constant (s)
1. All blocks are generally nonlinear, time time-variant and DPL1,2 is load demand increments. The overall
and/or non-minimum
minimum phase systems [12]. In each system can be modeled as a multi-variable
multi system in
control area, the generators are assumed to form a the following form.
coherent group. Loads changing at operating point
affect both frequencies in all areas and tie
tie-line power .
x  Ax(t )  Bu (t )  Ld (t ) (1)
flow between the areas [13]. As known that power
systems have
ave parametric uncertainties and they must Here A is the system matrix, B and L are input and
have small oscillations in the magnitude of transient disturbance distribution matrices, x(t), u(t) and d(t)
frequency. Their speed control must be taken care of are state, control and load changes disturbance
as quickly as possible [12]. The load load-frequency vectors, respectively.
control generally is accomplished by two different
control actions in interconnected three
three-area power x (t )  [ f1Pg 1Pv1P123, f 2 Pg 2 Pv 2 P213, f 3 Pg 3 Pv 3 P321 ]T (2)
systems: (a) the primary speed control and (b)
supplementary or secondary speed control actions. u (t )  [u1 , u2 , u3 ]T (3)
The former performs the initial vulgar readjustment of
the frequency by which generators in the control area d (t )  [Pd 1 , Pd 2 , Pd 3 ]T (4)
track a load variation and share it in proportion to
their capacities. This process typically takes place
where ∆ denotes deviation from the nominal values
within 2–20 20 s. The latter takes over the fine
and u1, u2 and u3 are the control outputs in Fig. 2. The
adjustment of the frequency by resetting the
system output, which depends on area control error
frequency error to zero through an integral action. The
(ACE) given in Fig. 3, is written as follow:
relationship
hip between the speed and load can be  y1 (t )   ACE1 
adjusted by changing a load reference set point input. y (t )   y2 (t )    ACE2   cx(t ) (5)
In practice, the adjustment of the load reference set  y3 (t )   ACE3 
point is accomplished by operating the speed changer
motor. The output of each unit at a given system ACEi  P123  bi fi (6)
frequency
cy can be varied only by changing its load
reference, which in effect moves the speed speed-droop where bi is the frequency bias constant, ∆fi is the
characteristic up and down. This control is frequency deviation and ∆P123 is the change in tie-line
considerably slower and goes into action only when power for area i (i=1 for area 1, i=2 for area 2 and i=3
for area 3) and C is the output matrix [14].

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IV. THE PROPOSED CONTROLLER applications in industry. Second, it can deal with
Originally developed by Zadeh in 1965 fuzzy logic intrinsic uncertainties by changing controller
(FL) is today implemented in all industrial systems all parameters. Finally, it is appropriate for rapid
over the world. It is much closer in spirit to human applications. Fuzzy logic has been applied to
thinking and natural language than classical logical industrial systems as a controller in various
systems [15]. Therefore, it is not required a applications. For the first time, FL was applied to
mathematical model or certain system parameters [1]. control theory by Mamdani in 1974 [16]. A fuzzy
According to many researchers, there are some controller is formed by fuzzification of error,
reasons for the present popularity of FL control. First, inference.
FL can easily be applied to most industrial

Fig. 2. Three-area power system with controllers

Fig.3. The three-area interconnected power system used in this study

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Mechanism and defuzzification levels. Therefore, an

analog signal is taken from output of the FL
controller. For systems, human experts prepare
linguistic descriptions as fuzzy rules which are
obtained based on step response experiments of the
process, error signal, and its time derivative [10]. In
general, conventional FL controllers are not suitable
for system controlling since they cannot produce
reliable transient response. Also, they are unable to
decrease steady-state errors down to zero [17]. Thus, a
fuzzy gain scheduling PI (FGPI) controller is
proposed in this study to maintain load-frequency
control in the three-area power system. The main goal
of the load-frequency control in the interconnected Fig.8 The variations of Ki with respect to e and de,
power systems is to protect the balance between Surface plot
production and consumption [17].
V. RESULTS AND ANALYSIS
The simulations are done on MATLAB/ Simulink
environment for the three area control. A step
disturbance is considered for the three same areas.
With the help of fuzzy controller with twenty five
rules, the frequency deviations are set to zero with
minimum settling time and overshoot. Fig.8 shows the
surface plot of FLC for the variations of Ki with
Fig. 4. Rules for input (frequency deviation) respect to error and derivation of error.
In this model shown by Fig.3, the application of fuzzy
controller [3] for load-frequency control in power
systems is used. For the same, interconnected power
system having three control areas including same
turbine units. In the system, non-reheat turbines are
used for each area. So, same properties and physical
constants of the areas above are considered in the
Fig. 5. Rules for input (rate of change of frequency simulation. In the simulation, a step load increment in
deviation) the three areas of power system is considered [7]. The
area control error for each area is controlled with FLC
to optimize the integral coefficient and hence to
achieve the zero frequency steady state error. The
fuzzy model used is Mamdani and bisector is used as
defuzzification method. In the decision-making stage,
total twenty five rules are used, which are specified by
a set of IF–THEN statements [9] define the controller
Fig. 6. Rules for output (proportional gain) behavior. The fuzzy simulation model in Simulink is
shown in Fig. 3.
The frequency deviations for the first area is
illustrated by Fig.9, which clearly shows the
maximum overshoot of around - 0.02, i.e. 0.04
percent of nominal frequency of 50 Hz and a good
settling time of 9 to 10 seconds for a step change in
load after 2 seconds. The same is the case for the
Fig. 7. Rules for output (integral gain) areas two and three as shown by Fig.10 and Fig. 11

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respectively. The figures also shows the dynamics logic controller is very effective to suppress the
which are controlled by the FLC to get the steady zero frequency oscillations caused by load disturbances.
frequency error. From the simulation study, the fuzzy

Fig.9. Plot for change in frequency for Area one

Fig.10. Plot for change in frequency for Area two

Fig.11. Plot for change in frequency for Area three

VI. CONCLUSIONS in the study, the power systems with three areas that
consist of thermal units are considered. The
In this study, FLC application to three area generation
simulation results obtained shows the performance of
controls is considered for the frequency deviations of
FLC controller against to the load perturbation at each
each area [7]. The transient behavior of frequency for
area in the considered power system. From the
the load perturbation in areas is studied. In practice,
analysis, the settling time of controllers was reached
power systems generally have more than three areas
in the time region of 9 to 10 seconds and overshoot is
and each area is different than others. Because of this,
very low (0.04 percent of nominal frequency of 50

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