Development of islanding early warning mechanism for power systems

Author

Tsai, Men-Shen

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Chinese Culture Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

22

Abstract

This paper discusses a computer algorithm which can be used to detect the conditions that will separate the power system into two or more islands. In order to provide an early warning mechanism for the dispatchers in the control center such that some actions can be taken before an islanding condition occurs, the proposed algorithm converts the power system topology into an undirected graph first. Based on the graph theory, the algorithm will indicate that outages occur on one or more of the transmission lines will lead to an islanding situation. The Tai-Power Company 345 kV and 161 kV systems will be used to validate the algorithm and evaluate the performance

Keywords

directed graphs; load dispatching; power system analysis computing; 161 kV; 345 kV; Tai-Power Company; computer algorithm; control center; dispatchers; graph theory; intelligent alarm processor; islanding condition; islanding early warning mechanism; outages occur; power system topology; power systems; undirected graph; Graph theory; Power engineering computing; Power system analysis computing; Power systems; Power transmission lines; Sparse matrices; Symmetric matrices; Topology; Transmission line matrix methods; Transmission line theory;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Engineering Society Summer Meeting, 2000. IEEE

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6420-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PESS.2000.867403

Filename

867403