A contribution to the study of ill conditioned systems from the voltage stability problem standpoint

Author(s)

Eduardo David Meireles

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e de Computação
• Defense date: 2005-05-31

Examining board members

Carlos Alberto de Castro Junior; Carlos Alberto Favarin Murari; Vivaldo Fernando da Costa; Jose Luiz Rezende Pereira

• Advisor: Luiz Carlos Pereira da Silva; Carlos Alberto de Castro Junior

Abstract

A number of methods for computing the operating state of the so-called ill-conditioned systems can be found in the literature. A power system is called ill-conditioned if its model results in a set of equations for which the resolution presents numerical difficulties [1, 2]. Those methods also showed to be useful tools in situations where the operation is unfeasible, that is, situations in which the set of equations that represents the network do not present any solution. In these cases the conventional load flow methods diverge and do not provide any useful information about the system operating condition. On the other hand, specific load flow methods for ill-conditioned systems do provide such information, even in divergence situations, and the possible causes of the numerical problems may be inferred. Recently, the possibility that the alleged ill-conditioned systems are in fact systems operating close to or beyond their voltage stability limit was discussed [3]. Therefore, the ill-conditioning would be the result of voltage stability problems rather than ill-conditioning itself. According to [3], after a number of simulations no situations where found such that the system was indeed ill-conditioned and was operating in normal condition as far as voltage stability is concerned. The tests carried out in [3] used continuation load method [4]. The main goal of this work is to carry out some simulation tests to analyze and discuss the conclusion presented in [3]. Also, some additional simulations were done for other ill-conditioned systems shown in [2], among others. The conclusions of this work point towards the importance of a continuing effort in the development of efficient methods for solving ill-conditioned systems (AU)