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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"wide area measurements"”.
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Power System Disturbance Analysis and Detection Based on Wide-Area Measurements
Wide-area measurement systems (WAMS) enable the monitoring of overall bulk power systems and provide critical information for understanding and responding to power system disturbances and cascading failures. The North American Frequency Monitoring Network (FNET) takes GPS-synchronized wide-area …
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Identification, Analysis, and Control of Power System Events Using Wide-Area Frequency Measurements
… of introspection. Only recently have dynamic, wide-area time synchronized grid measurements brought to light the complex relationships between large machines thousands of miles apart. These measurements are invaluable to understanding the health of the system in real time, for disturbances to …
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The Frequency Monitor Network (FNET) Design and Situation Awareness Algorithm Development
Wide Area Measurements (WAMs) have been widely used in the energy management system (EMS) of power system for monitoring, operation and control. In recent years, the advent of synchronized Phasor Measurements Unit (PMU) has added another dimension to the field of wide-area measurement. However, the …
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Multiple Swing Out-of-Step Relaying
… transient stability in power systems using Wide Area Measurements. A correct identification of transiently stable and unstable power oscillations can be achieved with the use of the Out-of-Step protection technique presented in this document. The development of this idea is explained through …
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Implementation of the Security-Dependability Adaptive Voting Scheme
… the 21st century, the electricity demand worldwide continues to rapidly grow. The power systems that supply this growing demand continue to be pushed closer to their limits. When those limits are exceeded, system blackouts occur that have massive societal and economical impact. Power system …
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Methodology for a Security-Dependability Adaptive Protection Scheme based on Data Mining
… conditions. The proposed methodology is based on Wide Area Measurements (WAMs) obtained with the aid of Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs). A Data Mining algorithm known as Decision Trees is used to classify the power system state and to predict the optimal security/dependability bias of a critical …
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Synchronized Measurements And Applications During Power System Dynamics
Synchronized phasor measurements during dynamics tend to be affected by prevailing system frequency. Some major blackouts in power systems are indeed featured with very large frequency disturbance. Quantitative study done in this dissertation shows that small frequency disturbance may lead to …
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Intelligent Instability Detection for Islanding Prediction
The goal of the proposed procedure in this dissertation is the implementation of phasor measurement unit (PMU) based instability detection for islanding prediction procedures using decision tree and neural network modeling. The islanding in the power system define as a separation of the coherent …
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Centralized Control of Power System Stabilizers
This study takes advantage of wide area measurements to propose a centralized nonlinear controller that acts on power system stabilizers, to cooperatively increase the damping of problematic small signal oscillations all over the system. The structure based on decision trees results in a simple, …
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Evaluation and Standardizing of Phasor Data Concentrators
… region, their effects can be seen across large areas causing major blackouts. In order to isolate the fault, measurements taken at different times throughout the blackout need to be collected and analyzed. With each measurement device having its own time source, time alignment can be a quite …
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Wide Area System Islanding Detection, Classification, and State Evaluation Algorithm
… be one of the most severe<br />consequences of wide-area system failures. It might result in enormous losses to both the power utilities and the consumers. Even those relatively small and stable islanding events may largely disturb the consumers\' normal operation in the island. On the other …
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Communication Infrastructure for the Smart Grid: A Co-Simulation Based Study on Techniques to Improve the Power Transmission System Functions with Efficient Data Networks
… techniques in today's power system. As wide area measurements and control techniques are being developed and deployed for a more resilient power system, the role of communication networks is becoming prominent. Advanced communication infrastructure provides much wider system …
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Practical Implementation of a Security-Dependability Adaptive Voting Scheme Using Decision Trees
… Practicality was based on the latency of Wide Area Measurement (WAM) devices and the added latency of relay voting operation during Stressed conditions. Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs), Phasor Data Concentrators (PDCs), and relay operation delays were quantified to determine the benefits …
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Power Systems Analysis in the Power-Angle Domain
… and solved in the power-angle domain. With the widespread deployment of phasor measurement units and frequency data recorders the industry is looking for more real-time analytical tools to turn real-time wide-area measurements into useful information. Applications based on power-angle domain …
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Coordinated Control of Inter-area Oscillations using SMA and LMI
The traditional approach to damp inter-area oscillations is through the installation of Power System Stabilizers (PSSs) which provide damping control action through excitation control systems of the generating units. However, study of recent blackouts has shown that the control action provided by a …
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A Data Analytics Framework for Regional Voltage Control
Modern power grids are some of the largest and most complex engineered systems. Due to economic competition and deregulation, the power systems are operated closer their security limit. When the system is operating under a heavy loading condition, the unstable voltage condition may cause a …
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Enabling Communication and Networking Technologies for Smart Grid
… aging electric grid to a smart grid is an active area of research in industry and the government. One of the main objectives of the smart grid is to improve the efficiency of power generation, transmission and distribution and also to improve the stability and the reliability of the grid. In order …
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A Wide-Area Perspective on Power System Operation and Dynamics
Classically, wide-area synchronized power system monitoring has been an expensive task requiring significant investment in utility communications infrastructures for the service of relatively few costly sensors. The purpose of this research is to demonstrate the viability of power system monitoring …