The power requirements imposed on an active vibration isolation system are quite important to the overall system design. In order to improve the efficiency of an active isolation system we analyze different feedback control strategies which will provide electrical energy regeneration. The active isolation system is modeled in a state-space form for two different types of actuators: a piezoelectric stack actuator and a linear electromagnetic (EM) actuator. During regenerative operation, the power is flowing from the mechanical disturbance through the electromechanical actuator and its switching drive into the electrical storage device (batteries or capacitors). We demonstrate that regeneration occurs when controlling one or both of the flow states (velocity and/or current). This regenerative control strategy affects the closed loop dynamics of the isolator which sees its damping reduced. / Master of Science

Submitted by Marina Teixeira Costa null (marinateixeiracosta@gmail.com) on 2017-02-14T14:27:15Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação MARINA 12.pdf: 1807218 bytes, checksum: 95bc28b832360cf51847512b47b234d8 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by LUIZA DE MENEZES ROMANETTO (luizamenezes@reitoria.unesp.br) on 2017-02-14T15:29:56Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 costa_mt_me_bauru.pdf: 1807218 bytes, checksum: 95bc28b832360cf51847512b47b234d8 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-02-14T15:29:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 costa_mt_me_bauru.pdf: 1807218 bytes, checksum: 95bc28b832360cf51847512b47b234d8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-12-16 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / O problema de Fluxo de Potência Ótimo determina a melhor condição de operação de um sistema elétrico de potência. Há diferentes classes de problemas de Fluxo de Potência Ótimo de acordo com os tipos de funções a serem otimizadas, e os conjuntos de controles e de restrições utilizados. Dentre elas, dá-se destaque ao problema de Fluxo de Potência Ótimo com Restrição de Segurança, o qual é uma importante ferramenta para os Operadores dos Sistemas de Transmissão, tanto para o planejamento operacional, quanto para a precificação da energia. Seu objetivo é minimizar os custos operacionais de geração de energia levando em consideração as restrições decorrentes da operação do sistema sob um conjunto de contingências. Ele é formulado como um problema de otimização não linear, não-convexo de grande porte, com variáveis contínuas e discretas. Neste trabalho investiga-se este problema em relação à sua formulação, dificuldades computacionais e método de solução. Para um tratamento do problema mais próximo à realidade adotam-se alguns controles como variáveis discretas, ou seja, os taps dos transformadores. Estes são tratados através de um método que penaliza a função objetivo quando as variáveis discretas assumem valores não discretos. Desta forma, o problema não linear discreto é transformado em um problema contínuo e o método Primal-Dual Barreira Logarítmica é utilizado em sua resolução. Testes computacionais são apresentados com o problema de Fluxo de Potência Ótimo com Restrição de Segurança associado ao sistema teste IEEE 14 barras em três etapas de teste. Os resultados obtidos e as comparações realizadas comprovam a eficiência do método de resolução escolhido / The Optimum Power Flow problem determines the best operating condition of an electric power system. There are different classes of Optimal Power Flow problems according to the types of functions to be optimized, and the sets of controls and constraints used. Among them, the problem of Optimal Power Flow with Security Constraint is highlighted, which is an important tool for the Transmission System operators, both for operational planning and for energy pricing. Its objective is to minimize the operational costs of power generation taking into account the constraints arising from the operation of the system under a set of contingencies. It is formulated as a nonlinear, nonconvex large optimization problem, of continuous and discrete variables. In this work, the problem in relation to its formulation, computational difficulties and solution method is investigated. For a treatment of the problem closest to the reality, some controls such as discrete variables, i.e. the taps of the transformers, are used. These are treated by a method that penalizes the objective function when the discrete variables assume non-discrete values. Thus, the discrete nonlinear problem is transformed into a continuous problem and the Primal-Dual Logarithmic Barrier method is used in its resolution. Computational tests are performed with the optimal power flow problem with security constraint associated with the test system of IEEE 14 bars in three test stages. The obtained results and the realized comparisons prove the efficiency of the chosen resolution method.

<p>In this thesis, controllers for power oscillation damping, transient stability improvement and power flow control by means of a Controlled Series Compensator (CSC) and and a Dynamic Power Flow Controller (DPFC) are proposed. These devices belong to the group of power system components referred to as Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS) devices. The developed controllers use only quantities measured locally at the FACTS device as inputs, thereby avoiding the risk of interrupted communications associated with the use of remote signals for control.</p><p>For power systems with one dominating, poorly damped inter-area power oscillation mode, it is shown that a simple generic system model can be used as a basis for damping- and power flow control design. The model for control of CSC includes two synchronous machine models representing the two grid areas participating in the oscillation and three reactance variables, representing the interconnecting transmission lines and the FACTS device. The model for control of DPFC is of the same type but it also includes the phase shift of the internal phase-shifting transformer of the DPFC.</p><p>The key parameters of the generic grid models are adaptively set during the controller operation by estimation from the step responses in the FACTS line power to the changes in the line series reactance inserted by the FACTS device. The power oscillation damping controller is based on a time-discrete, non-linear approach which aims to damp the power oscillations and set the desired power flow on the FACTS line by means of two step changes in the line reactance separated in time by half an oscillation cycle.</p><p>A verification of the proposed controllers was done by means of digital simulations using power system models of different complexities. The CSC and DPFC controllers were shown to significantly improve the small-signal- and transient stability in one four-machine system of a type commonly used to study inter-area oscillations. The CSC controller was also tested for 18 different contingencies in a 23-machine system, resulting in an improvement in both the system transient stability and the damping of the critical oscillation mode. </p>

This thesis studies different aspects of Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS) devices which are used to improve the power transfer capability and increase the controllability in electric power systems. In the thesis, different aspects on the usage and control of Dynamic Power Flow Controllers (DPFC) and related FACTS devices are studied. The DPFC is a combination of a Phase Shifting Transformer (PST) and a Thyristor Switched Series Capacitor (TSSC)/Thyristor Switched Series Reactor (TSSR). The thesis proposes and studies a new method, the Ideal Phase-Shifter (IPS) method, for selection and rating of Power Flow Controllers (PFC) in a power grid. The IPS method, which is based on steady-state calculations, is proposed as a first step in the design process for a PFC. The method uses the Power controller plane, introduced by Brochu et al in 1999. The IPS method extends the usage of decoupling methods in the Power controller plane to a power system of arbitrary size. The IPS method was in the thesis used to compare the ratings of different PFC:s required to improve the power transfer capability in two test systems. The studied devices were here the PST, the TSSC/TSSR and the DPFC. The thesis treats control of ideal Controlled Series Capacitors (CSC), TCSC, TSSC/TSSR, and DPFC. The goals of the FACTS controllers which are developed are Power Oscillation Damping (POD), fast power flow control, and transient stability improvement in the power system. New adaptive control strategies for POD and power flow control are proposed and studied in different models of power systems by time-domain simulations. A strategy for transient stability improvement is also proposed and studied. Additionally, different methods for study of Subsynchronous Resonance (SSR), which is associated with series compensation in power systems, are investigated. Here, four of the most common methods for frequency scanning to determine the electrical damping of subsynchronous oscillations in a power grid are studied. The study reveals significant differences of the electrical damping estimates of the studied standard methods when applied to a four-machine test system. / QC 20110819

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Submitted by isabela.moljf@hotmail.com (isabela.moljf@hotmail.com) on 2017-07-21T13:29:40Z No. of bitstreams: 1 paulosergiodecastronascimento.pdf: 3896961 bytes, checksum: 0b372ca459a14823ea250c1b708376af (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2017-08-08T18:15:52Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 paulosergiodecastronascimento.pdf: 3896961 bytes, checksum: 0b372ca459a14823ea250c1b708376af (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-08T18:15:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 paulosergiodecastronascimento.pdf: 3896961 bytes, checksum: 0b372ca459a14823ea250c1b708376af (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-04-18 / O Controle de Intercâmbio de Potência Reativa (CIPR) é uma metodologia cujo principal objetivo é manter o intercâmbio de potência reativa de uma área em um determinado valor especificado. Tal esquema tem potencial para subsidiar o estudo do suporte de potência reativa fornecido ou requerido por uma determinada área e seu impacto na operação do sistema. Além disso, tal estratégia de controle foi elaborada visando o desacoplamento de controle de tensão e potência reativa da área, de forma a permitir uma maior eficiência de estratégias de controle coordenado de tensão. A sistemática básica da formulação matemática que será apresentada, foi inspirada especialmente no método de controle de intercâmbio de potência ativa entre áreas, onde múltiplos geradores contribuem para controlar o intercâmbio de potencia ativa em valores especificados, conforme descrito em [1]. A principal contribuição deste trabalho está associada a uma nova formulação aumentada, onde apenas uma equação adicional é utilizada para representação do controle de intercâmbio de potência reativa. A metodologia propicia uma grande flexibilidade, permitindo não só a aplicação no CIPR, mas também na modelagem de outros tipos de controles que necessitam representar vários equipamentos simultaneamente. Para a aplicação deste trabalho, a metodologia representa os vários geradores participantes do CIPR, com acréscimo de apenas uma linha e uma coluna na matriz jacobiana, sendo esta a principal contribuição deste trabalho. Adicionalmente, a metodologia apresenta grande versatilidade na incorporação e/ou retirada dos equipamentos responsáveis pelo controle, representando de forma eficiente as limitações reais dos equipamentos. O modelo matemático proposto foi testado em diversos sistemas testes, obtendo-se bons resultados. As simulações realizadas foram validadas usando o programa Anarede de propriedade do Centro de Pesquisa de Energia Elétrica (CEPEL). Os modelos de fluxo de potência e o núcleo principal da metodologia proposta foram desenvolvidos em MATLAB, auxiliadas por diversos programas para formulação e verificação dos resultados. Sendo os principais destes: Mathematica, Anarede, PSIM, linguagem R, Rstudio. / Reactive Power Interchange Control (RPIC) is a methodology whose main objective is to maintain the reactive power interchange of an area at a specified value. Such a scheme has the potential to support the study of the reactive power support provided or required by a given area and its impact on the operation of the system. In addition, such control strategy was elaborated aiming at the decoupling of tension control and reactive power of the area, in order to allow greater efficiency of coordinated voltage control strategies. The basic mathematical formulation, which will be presented, was inspired by the method of control of active power interchange between areas, where multiple generators contribute to control the active power exchange in specified values, as described in [1]. The main contribution of this work is associated with a new augmented formulation, where only one additional equation is used to represent the reactive power exchange control between two areas. The methodology provides great flexibility, allowing not only the application in the RPIC, but in other to generally model control strategies, in which the contribution of more than one device for a given control strategy is required. For the application of this work, the modelling represents the various generators participating in the RPIC, in which only one additional line and column in the Jacobian matrix is required, being this formulation the main contribution of this work. In addition, the methodology presents great flexibility in the incorporation or removal of a control device, which has reached its corresponding limit. The proposed mathematical model was tested in several test systems, obtaining good results. The simulations were validated using the ANAREDE program owned by the Electric Energy Research Center (CEPEL). The power flow models and the main core of the proposed methodology were developed in MATLAB, aided by several programs for formulating and verifying the results. The main ones being: Mathematica, ANAREDE, PSIM, R language, Rstudio.

In this thesis, controllers for power oscillation damping, transient stability improvement and power flow control by means of a Controlled Series Compensator (CSC) and and a Dynamic Power Flow Controller (DPFC) are proposed. These devices belong to the group of power system components referred to as Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS) devices. The developed controllers use only quantities measured locally at the FACTS device as inputs, thereby avoiding the risk of interrupted communications associated with the use of remote signals for control. For power systems with one dominating, poorly damped inter-area power oscillation mode, it is shown that a simple generic system model can be used as a basis for damping- and power flow control design. The model for control of CSC includes two synchronous machine models representing the two grid areas participating in the oscillation and three reactance variables, representing the interconnecting transmission lines and the FACTS device. The model for control of DPFC is of the same type but it also includes the phase shift of the internal phase-shifting transformer of the DPFC. The key parameters of the generic grid models are adaptively set during the controller operation by estimation from the step responses in the FACTS line power to the changes in the line series reactance inserted by the FACTS device. The power oscillation damping controller is based on a time-discrete, non-linear approach which aims to damp the power oscillations and set the desired power flow on the FACTS line by means of two step changes in the line reactance separated in time by half an oscillation cycle. A verification of the proposed controllers was done by means of digital simulations using power system models of different complexities. The CSC and DPFC controllers were shown to significantly improve the small-signal- and transient stability in one four-machine system of a type commonly used to study inter-area oscillations. The CSC controller was also tested for 18 different contingencies in a 23-machine system, resulting in an improvement in both the system transient stability and the damping of the critical oscillation mode. / QC 20101112

Time-series power flow simulations are consecutive power flow calculations on each time step of a set of load and generation profiles that represent the time horizon under which a network needs to be analyzed. These simulations are one of the fundamental tools to carry out cost-benefit analyses of grid planing and operation strategies in the presence of distributed energy resources, unfortunately, their execution time is quite substantial. In the specific case of cost-benefit analyses the execution time of time-series power flow simulations can easily become excessive, as typical time horizons are in the order of a year and different scenarios need to be compared, which results in time-series simulations that require a rather large number of individual power flow calculations. It is often the case that only a set of aggregated simulation outputs is required for assessing grid operation costs, examples of which are total network losses, power exchange through MV/LV substation transformers, and total power provision from PV generators. Exploring alternatives to running time-series power flow simulations with complete input data that can produce approximations of the required results with a level of accuracy that is suitable for cost-benefit analyses but that require less time to compute can thus be beneficial. This thesis explores and compares different methods for shortening time-series power flow simulations based on reducing the amount of input data and thus the required number of individual power flow calculations, and focuses its attention on two of them: one consists in reducing the time resolution of the input profiles through downsampling while the other consists in finding similar time steps in the input profiles through vector quantization and simulating them only once. The results show that considerable execution time reductions and sufficiently accurate results can be obtained with both methods, but vector quantization requires much less data to produce the same level of accuracy as downsampling. Vector quantization delivers a far superior trade-off between data reduction, time savings, and accuracy when the simulations consider voltage control or when more than one simulation with the same input data is required, as in such cases the data reduction process can be carried out only once. One disadvantage of this method is that it does not reproduce peak values in the result profiles with accuracy, which is due to the way downsampling disregards certain time steps in the input profiles and to the averaging effect vector quantization has on the them. This disadvantage makes the simulations shortened through these methods less precise, for example, for detecting voltage violations.

This research proposes, implements and analyses a novel framework for multiobjective optimisation through evolutionary computing aimed at, but not restricted to, real-world problems in the engineering design domain. Evolutionary algorithms have been used to tackle a variety of non-linear multiobjective optimisation problems successfully, but their success is governed by key parameters which have been shown to be sensitive to the nature of the particular problem, incorporating concerns such as the number of objectives and variables, and the size and topology of the search space, making it hard to determine the best settings in advance. This work describes a real-encoded multi-objective optimising evolutionary algorithm framework, incorporating a genetic algorithm, that uses self-adaptive mutation and crossover in an attempt to avoid such problems, and which has been benchmarked against both standard optimisation test problems in the literature and a real-world airfoil optimisation case. For this last case, the minimisation of drag and maximisation of lift coefficients of a well documented standard airfoil, the framework is integrated with a freeform deformation tool to manage the changes to the section geometry, and XFoil, a tool which evaluates the airfoil in terms of its aerodynamic efficiency. The performance of the framework on this problem is compared with those of two other heuristic MOO algorithms known to perform well, the Multi-Objective Tabu Search (MOTS) and NSGA-II, showing that this framework achieves better or at least no worse convergence. The framework of this research is then considered as a candidate for smart (electricity) grid optimisation. Power networks can be improved in both technical and economical terms by the inclusion of distributed generation which may include renewable energy sources. The essential problem in national power networks is that of power flow and in particular, optimal power flow calculations of alternating (or possibly, direct) current. The aims of this work are to propose and investigate a method to assist in the determination of the composition of optimal or high-performing power networks in terms of the type, number and location of the distributed generators, and to analyse the multi-dimensional results of the evolutionary computation component in order to reveal relationships between the network design vector elements and to identify possible further methods of improving models in future work. The results indicate that the method used is a feasible one for the achievement of these goals, and also for determining optimal flow capacities of transmission lines connecting the bus bars in the network.

An approach to utilize Distributed Generation (DG) to minimize the total load shedding by analyzing the power system in Transactive energy framework is proposed. An algorithm to optimize power system in forward and spot markets to maximize an electric utility’s profit by optimizing purchase of power from DG is developed. The proposed algorithm is a multi-objective optimization with the main objective to maximize a utility’s profit by minimizing overall cost of production, load shedding, and purchase of power from distributed generators. This work also proposes a method to price power in forward and spot markets using existing LMP techniques. Transactive accounting has been performed to quantify the consumer payments in both markets. The algorithm is tested in two test systems; a 6-bus system and modified IEEE 14-bus system. The results show that by investing in DG, utility benefits from profit increase, load shedding reduction, and transmission line loading improvement.