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A Novel Approach to Interarea Oscillation Damping by Unified Power Flow Controllers Utilizing Ultracapacitors
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems
  • Mahyar Zarghami
  • Mariesa Crow, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Jagannathan Sarangapani, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Yilu Liu
  • Stan Atcitty
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)
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
2-1-2010
Publication Date
01 Feb 2010
Citation Information
Mahyar Zarghami, Mariesa Crow, Jagannathan Sarangapani, Yilu Liu, et al.. "A Novel Approach to Interarea Oscillation Damping by Unified Power Flow Controllers Utilizing Ultracapacitors" IEEE Transactions on Power Systems Vol. 25 Iss. 1 (2010) p. 404 - 412 ISSN: 0885-8950
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jagannathan-sarangapani/5/