M. Tech. Electrical Engineering / Investigates the growing consensus that significant advantages can be achieved through the automation of distribution feeder switches In order to ensure quality and reliability of supply to single phase consumers by electrical utilities, a need arose to minimize unbalance. it is then postulated the unbalance due to uneven distribution of single-phase loads at the secondary side of the distribution network can be minimized using automatic and remote sensing technology.

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This research work deals with the application of the phase shifting transformer in improving the steady state performance and voltage stability of transmission network that has transmission lines at different voltage levels running in parallel to each other. Transmission power system networks are usually developed using lines built at a certain voltage level initially. As power demand requirements increase, building of the new lines at the same voltage level becomes necessary. However, lesser and lesser improvements in transfer capacity are realised when the additional lines are built. This prompts utilities to consider higher voltages for future lines as these have a higher transfer capacity. Utilities usually lay, i.e., they build in parallel, newer, higher voltage transmission lines along side the existing lower voltage ones. Power flow in power system is mainly influenced by impedances of equipment. If the combined impedance of the existing, lower voltage transmission system is relatively less than the impedance of the newer, higher voltage ones, power may primarily flow through it rather than via the newer, parallel higher voltage transmission network. This may lead to a serious underutilisation of the newer infrastructure with a higher transmission capacity. Transmission networks similar to the one described above are common throughout the world. This study was undertaken towards finding solutions to the problem of under utilisation of such transmission lines. The study was performed by first reviewing the literature on the use of phase shifting transformers to redirect power flow in transmission networks throughout the world. This was followed by analysis of the theory on how and what determines the power flow in power networks. Several simulations of varying the phase of the phase shifting transformer were performed on the Cape network, as a case study, to investigate the impact on the power flow distribution and voltage stability performance of the 765 kV and 400 kV transmission lines carrying power to the Western Cape. In this dissertation, it has been demonstrated that a phase shifting transformer can be used to alter the power flow patterns so that power flows are restructured or redistributed, such that power which originally flowed via the low impedance, lower voltage system is transferred to the parallel higher voltage transmission system of lines. It is shown that once the power flows are redistributed, steady state and voltage stability performance of the total system can be enhanced and an increase in its power transfer capacity can be realised. / Thesis (M.Sc.Eng.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2011.

This thesis proposes, analyses and implements a fast and accurate real-time power system disturbances identification method based on an enhanced linear least squares algorithm for mitigation and monitoring of various power quality problems such as current harmonics, grid unbalances and voltage dips. The enhanced algorithm imposes less real-time computational burden on processing the system and is thus called ???efficient least squares algorithm???. The proposed efficient least squares algorithm does not require matrix inversion operation and contains only real numbers. The number of required real-time matrix multiplications is also reduced in the proposed method by pre-performing some of the matrix multiplications to form a constant matrix. The proposed efficient least squares algorithm extracts instantaneous sine and cosine terms of the fundamental and harmonic components by simply multiplying a set of sampled input data by the pre-calculated constant matrix. A power signal processing system based on the proposed efficient least squares algorithm is presented in this thesis. This power signal processing system derives various power system quantities that are used for real-time monitoring and disturbance mitigation. These power system quantities include constituent components, symmetrical components and various power measurements. The properties of the proposed power signal processing system was studied using modelling and practical implementation in a digital signal processor. These studies demonstrated that the proposed method is capable of extracting time varying power system quantities quickly and accurately. The dynamic response time of the proposed method was less than half that of a fundamental cycle. Moreover, the proposed method showed less sensitivity to noise pollution and small variations in fundamental frequency. The performance of the proposed power signal processing system was compared to that of the popular DFT/FFT methods using computer simulations. The simulation results confirmed the superior performance of the proposed method under both transient and steady-state conditions. In order to investigate the practicability of the method, the proposed power signal processing system was applied to two real-life disturbance mitigation applications namely, an active power filter (APF) and a distribution synchronous static compensator (D-STATCOM). The validity and performance of the proposed signal processing system in both disturbance mitigations applications were investigated by simulation and experimental studies. The extensive modelling and experimental studies confirmed that the proposed signal processing system can be used for practical real-time applications which require fast disturbance identification such as mitigation control and power quality monitoring of power systems

Thesis (M.S.)--Ohio State University, 2008. / Title from first page of PDF file. Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-154).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 127-140) Also available in print.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 127-140) Also available online.

Thesis (Ph.D.) -- Mississippi State University. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--Mississippi State University. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. / Title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references.

É notável que o Sistema Elétrico de Potência (SEP) está constantemente exposto a adversidades ocasionadas por forças da natureza ou desgastes naturais de seus componentes. A localização com certa exatidão de uma falta no Sistema de Transmissão de Energia Elétrica (STEE), ocasionada por uma destas adversidades, contribui para a confiabilidade e segurança da operação do SEP. Neste contexto, este trabalho apresenta um método computacional de Localização de Faltas (LDF), desenvolvido em ambiente MATLAB®, baseado na Impedância Aparente (IA), utilizando dados de apenas um terminal, sendo o equacionamento desenvolvido em componentes simétricas. Este método tem como dados de entrada as componentes fundamentais de tensão e corrente do terminal local e a Potência de Curto Circuito (SCC) do sistema equivalente conectado ao terminal remoto. Para validar o método proposto foram realizadas diversas simulações para todos os tipos de faltas shunt, contemplando inúmeras condições destas, utilizando para isso, o programa computacional ATP-EMTP, alimentado com dados de parâmetros reais de um sistema de transmissão. Objetivando analisar a eficiência deste método, realizou-se a comparação de seus resultados com os resultados obtidos por um método estado-da-arte. A partir de análises e comparações, os resultados alcançados pertencentes ao método de LDF proposto, apresentam-se promissores para a LDF em sistemas de transmissão. / Electric Power Systems (EPS) are constantly exposed to adversities caused by forces of nature and components lifetime. The precise fault location in the Transmission System (TEPS), caused by these adversities, contributes to the reliability and safety the operation of the EPS. In this context, this work presents a computational method for fault location (FL), developed in MATLAB ® environment, based on the Apparent Impedance (AI) of the transmission line. The proposed method uses only one terminal data and is developed in symmetrical components equations. This method has as input data the fundamental components of voltage and current of the local terminal and the short circuit power (SCP) of the equivalent system connected to the remote terminal. The proposed method is validated through several simulations for all fault types, covering many fault conditions, making use of the software ATP-EMTP, fed with data from the actual parameters of a real life transmission system. Aiming to analyze the efficiency of this method, a comparison was made against the an state-of-the-art method. From analysis and comparison of the results obtained, is observed that the proposed scheme is capable to obtain precise fault location estimations and presents as promising method for the FL in transmission systems.