High Speed Method for CCT Estimation: Fundamental, Implemention and Application in Real-Time Simulation

Abstract

AbstractThis paper proposes a hybrid method based on corrected kinetic energy to determine the critical clearing time. The proposed method structure has been implemented utilizing network preserving model to take details of power systems into consideration. To implement proposed method, the initial critical point is estimated using new concept of equal area criterion. Critical corrected kinetic energy is obtained using method which determines the amount of severity of generator contribution in a fault scenario. Due to the latter, the behavior of AVR and governor are taken into account. From initial and corrected kinetic energy of generators and consequently system, high precision critical clearing time is calculated. In order to validate the proposed method, some comprehensive case studies have been conducted on the IEEE9-bus, IEEE39-bus and IEEE68-bus test systems. Some comprehensiveness in considering the details, simplicity in implementation and low computational cost are the outstanding features of the proposed approach. Also, simulation results approve that the proposed approach can be used in real-time application without loss of any detail in transient stability assessment.