Abstract
dc:description.abstractClassically, 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 from very low voltage levels (120 V). Challenging the accepted norms in power system monitoring, the document will present the use of inexpensive GPS time synchronized sensors in mass numbers at the distribution level. In the past, such low level monitoring has been overlooked due to a perceived imbalance between the required investment and the usefulness of the resulting deluge of information. However, distribution level monitoring offers several advantages over bulk transmission system monitoring. First, practically everyone with access to electricity also has a measurement port into the electric power system. Second, internet access and GPS availability have become pedestrian commodities providing a communications and synchronization infrastructure for the transmission of low-voltage measurements. Third, these ubiquitous measurement points exist in an interconnected fashion irrespective of utility boundaries. This work offers insight into which parameters are meaningful to monitor at the distribution level and provides applications that add unprecedented value to the data extracted from this level. System models comprising the entire Eastern Interconnection are exploited in conjunction with a bounty of distribution level measurement data for the development of wide-area disturbance detection, classification, analysis, and location routines. The main contributions of this work are fivefold: the introduction of a novel power system disturbance detection algorithm; the development of a power system oscillation damping analysis methodology; the development of several parametric and non-parametric power system disturbance location methods, new methods of power system phenomena visualization, and the proposal and mapping of an online power system event reporting scheme.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph. D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- doctoral
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Department dc:contributor.department
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Grantor dc:publisher
- Virginia Tech
- Year dc:date.issued
- 2008
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Gardner, Robert Matthew
- Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
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- Liu, Yilu
- Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
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- Abbott, A. Lynn
- Mili, Lamine M.
- Thorp, James S.
- Russell, David L.
Subjects
dc:subject × 35- TDOA
- FNET
- FDR
- GPS
- Wide-Area monitoring
- wide-area measurements
- power system event
- power system
- load shedding
- generation trip
- eastern interconnection
- wams
- ems
- nerc
- ercot
- wecc
- parzen window
- interconnection islanding
- PMU
- half-plane method
- least squares
- event trigger
- generation-load mismatch
- electromechanical wave
- wave propagation
- time delay of arrival
- oscillation trigger
- modal analysis
- electric grid
- transmission network
- transmission system
- hypocenter
- frequency
- matrix pencil
- mahalanobis distance
Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- In Copyright
- Licence dc:rights.uri
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Dc Identifier Other
- etd-04112008-132017
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/26779