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Impact of Negative Reactance on Definiteness of B-Matrix and Feasibility of DC Power Flow
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
  • Tao Ding
  • Rui Bo, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Yongheng Yang
  • Frede Blaabjerg
Abstract

This paper reports an essential phenomenon on the existence of "negative reactance in practical power system models. The negative reactance issue is important, as it could affect the definiteness of the B admittance matrix of power networks and the feasibility of DC power flow. With the graph theory, the B matrix can be treated as a Laplacian matrix. Several theorems and corollaries are given with proof to study the definiteness of the Laplacian matrix with negative weights. Based upon these theorems, the exploration in this paper demonstrates that the negative reactance may even result in "physical dis-connectivity" and make the linear system singular, so that the DC power flow will be infeasible. The results on several test systems show that the location and value of the negative reactance affect the DC power flow feasibility.

Department(s)
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Center/Lab(s)
Intelligent Systems Center
Keywords and Phrases
  • Eigenvalues and Eigenfunctions,
  • Flow Graphs,
  • Graph Theory,
  • Laplace Transforms,
  • Linear Systems,
  • Matrix Algebra,
  • Admittance Matrices,
  • DC Power Flow,
  • Eigen-Value,
  • Laplacian Matrices,
  • Negative Reactance,
  • Power Networks,
  • Power System Model,
  • Test Systems,
  • Electric Load Flow,
  • Eigenvalue.,
  • Laplacian Matrix
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2017 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), All rights reserved.
Publication Date
3-1-2019
Publication Date
01 Mar 2019
Citation Information
Tao Ding, Rui Bo, Yongheng Yang and Frede Blaabjerg. "Impact of Negative Reactance on Definiteness of B-Matrix and Feasibility of DC Power Flow" IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid Vol. 10 Iss. 2 (2019) p. 1725 - 1734 ISSN: 1949-3053
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/rui-bo/39/