Mitigating Subsynchronous Torsional Interaction Using Geometric Feature Extraction Method

Abstract

This paper proposes a method to mitigate subsynchronous torsional interaction detected during power system operation. This innovative method employs the delay reconstruction of the damping controller of a thyristor-controlled series compensator. This addresses the need to detect and manage stability and electromagnetic transients in power systems caused by the increasing use of fast-response power electronics. Previously, severe oscillation conditions could be avoided via analysis of the subsynchronous torsional interaction scenarios during the planning stage, enabling the suppression of oscillations. However, planning, modeling, and analysis for various scenarios becomes more difficult as the complexity of the power system increases, owing to the use of renewable energy and the incorporation of topology changes. Therefore, interest in measurement data-based real-time oscillation analysis has increased. The first step of the mitigation strategy proposed herein reconstructs nonlinear time-series data to detect subsynchronous torsional interaction in real time and generate alert signals. The second step of the strategy is that the controller mitigates oscillations by controlling the firing angle using the geometric feature extraction method. In this paper, the relaxation of the frequency oscillation in the subsynchronous region of about 22 Hz and about 18 Hz was verified through two simulation cases.