Cooperative DMPC-Based Load Frequency Control of AC/DC Interconnected Power System with Solar Thermal Power Plant

Author(s):  
Xiaobing Liao ◽  
Kaipei Liu ◽  
Liang Qin ◽  
Ningbo Wang ◽  
Yanhong Ma ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 7522-7529
Author(s):  
D. V. Doan ◽  
K. Nguyen ◽  
Q. V. Thai

This study focuses on designing an effective intelligent control method to stabilize the net frequency against load variations in multi-control-area interconnected power systems. Conventional controllers (e.g. Integral, PI, and PID) achieve only poor control performance with high overshoots and long settling times. They could be replaced with intelligent regulators that can update controller parameters for better control quality. The control strategy is based on fuzzy logic, which is one of the most effective intelligent strategies and can be a perfect substitute for such conventional controllers when dealing with network frequency stability problems. This paper proposes a kind of fuzzy logic controller based on the PID principle with a 49-rule set suitable to completely solve the problem of load frequency control in a two-area thermal power system. Such a novel PID-like fuzzy logic controller with modified scaling factors can be applied in various practical scenarios of an interconnected power system, namely varying load change conditions, changing system parameters in the range of ±50%, and considering Governor Dead-Band (GDB) along with Generation Rate Constraint (GRC) nonlinearities and time delay. Through the simulation results implemented in Matlab/Simulink software, this study demonstrates the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed fuzzy logic controller over several counterparts in dealing with the load-frequency control of a practical interconnected power system considering the aforesaid conditions.


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Anh-Tuan Tran ◽  
Phong Thanh Tran ◽  
Van Van Huynh

This study investigates load frequency control based generalized extended state observer (GESO) for interconnected power systems subject to multi-kind of the power plant. First, the mathematical model of the interconnected power system is proposed based on the dynamic model of thermal power plant with reheat turbine and hydropower plant. Second, the GESO is designed to estimate the system states and disturbances. In addition, the problem of unmeasurable system states in the interconnected power network due to lack of sensor has been solved by using the proposed load frequency control based GESO. The numerical experiments are carried out by using MATLAB/ SIMULINK simulation. The simulation results point out that the proposed control approach has the capacity to handle the uncertainties and disturbances in the interconnected power system with better transient performances in comparison with the existing control approach. The relevant dynamic models have already been used for the simulation of the physical constraints of the governor dead band (GDB) and generation rate constraint (GRC) effect in the power plants. It is evident that the robustness of the suggested controller in terms of stability and effectiveness of the system. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited.


Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 1581
Author(s):  
Deepak Kumar Gupta ◽  
Amitkumar V. Jha ◽  
Bhargav Appasani ◽  
Avireni Srinivasulu ◽  
Nicu Bizon ◽  
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The automatic load frequency control for multi-area power systems has been a challenging task for power system engineers. The complexity of this task further increases with the incorporation of multiple sources of power generation. For multi-source power system, this paper presents a new heuristic-based hybrid optimization technique to achieve the objective of automatic load frequency control. In particular, the proposed optimization technique regulates the frequency deviation and the tie-line power in multi-source power system. The proposed optimization technique uses the main features of three different optimization techniques, namely, the Firefly Algorithm (FA), the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), and the Gravitational Search Algorithm (GSA). The proposed algorithm was used to tune the parameters of a Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) controller to achieve the automatic load frequency control of the multi-source power system. The integral time absolute error was used as the objective function. Moreover, the controller was also tuned to ensure that the tie-line power and the frequency of the multi-source power system were within the acceptable limits. A two-area power system was designed using MATLAB-Simulink tool, consisting of three types of power sources, viz., thermal power plant, hydro power plant, and gas-turbine power plant. The overall efficacy of the proposed algorithm was tested for two different case studies. In the first case study, both the areas were subjected to a load increment of 0.01 p.u. In the second case, the two areas were subjected to different load increments of 0.03 p.u and 0.02 p.u, respectively. Furthermore, the settling time and the peak overshoot were considered to measure the effect on the frequency deviation and on the tie-line response. For the first case study, the settling times for the frequency deviation in area-1, the frequency deviation in area-2, and the tie-line power flow were 8.5 s, 5.5 s, and 3.0 s, respectively. In comparison, these values were 8.7 s, 6.1 s, and 5.5 s, using PSO; 8.7 s, 7.2 s, and 6.5 s, using FA; and 9.0 s, 8.0 s, and 11.0 s using GSA. Similarly, for case study II, these values were: 5.5 s, 5.6 s, and 5.1 s, using the proposed algorithm; 6.2 s, 6.3 s, and 5.3 s, using PSO; 7.0 s, 6.5 s, and 10.0 s, using FA; and 8.5 s, 7.5 s, and 12.0 s, using GSA. Thus, the proposed algorithm performed better than the other techniques.


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