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Modern Aspects of Power System Frequency Stability and Control

  • 1st Edition - May 4, 2019
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Andrew Dixon
  • Language: English

Modern Aspects of Power System Frequency Stability and Control describes recently-developed tools, analyses, developments and new approaches in power system frequency, stability… Read more

Description

Modern Aspects of Power System Frequency Stability and Control describes recently-developed tools, analyses, developments and new approaches in power system frequency, stability and control, filling a gap that, until the last few years, has been unavailable to power system engineers.

Key features

  • Deals with specific practical issues relating to power system frequency, control and stability
  • Focuses on low-inertia and smart grid systems
  • Describes the fundamental processes by which the frequency response requirements of power systems in daily operation are calculated, together with a description of the actual means of calculation of these requirements

Readership

Control and communication engineers, power engineers, undergraduate and postgraduate engineering students

Table of contents

Chapter 1: The Need for Frequency Control1.1 Summary of system requirements1.2 Intact system1.3 Loss of generation1.4 Loss of demand1.5 Monitoring of system frequency in real time1.6 Modern challenges in frequency control

Chapter 2: What can provide Frequency Control?2.1 Traditional providers of frequency control2.2 Frequency response2.3 Continuous response2.4 Step-change response2.5 New providers of frequency control2.6 The Issue of System Inertia

Chapter 3: Per Unit Systems for Frequency Analysis3.1 Per unit systems: individual machines3.2 Per unit systems and the power system at large

Chapter 4: Initial Analysis of the Frequency Control Problem: The Swing Equation4.1 Elements of the fundamental balance in the intact power system4.2 Imbalance following a system loss

Chapter 5: Techniques for Calculating Frequency Response Requirements5.1 Approaching the solution of the Swing Equation5.2 Frequency during normal operation5.3 The time periods of frequency evolution following a system loss5.4 Available solution techniques

Chapter 6: Analytical Solutions6.1 Solution by Laplace Transforms6.2 Direct solution of the differential equations6.3 Advantages and disadvantages of the methods

Chapter 7: Numerical Solutions7.1 The basic method7.2 Choice of time-step7.3 Choice of simulation time7.4 Advantages and disadvantages of the methods

Chapter 8: The Control Diagram Approach

Chapter 9: Applications9.1 Rate of Change of Frequency Assessment9.2 Response Requirements: Low Frequency9.3 Response Requirements: High Frequency9.4 Response Requirements during Normal Operation

Chapter 10: Challenges of Operating Systems with High Penetrations of Renewables (Low-Inertia Systems)

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: May 4, 2019
  • Language: English

About the author

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Andrew Dixon

Dr Andrew Dixon holds a Doctor’s Degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of St Andrews, Scotland, and a Master’s Degree in Electrical Power Systems Engineering with Distinction from the University of Bath, England. He joined the National Grid Company in 1990, working in a range of technical roles in various parts of the company. From 2010 – 2015 he was instrumental in writing and developing new tools for the National Control Centre, Wokingham, UK to assist Control Engineers, to enable them to calculate Frequency Response Requirements for the National Grid system in Britain. These frequency response tools have been incorporated into a suite in the UK National Control Room and are used daily.
Affiliations and expertise
Worked in the UK Transmission Industry in the field of power systems modelling for over 26 years

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