Exchange Platform

Author: n.sene
Type: Publication
Date: 2015-04-02

Power system islands, autonomous microgrids and relevant instrumentation

Description:
Unplanned power system islanding is usually seen as a major risky operating condition and specific countermeasures are applied in order to avoid it. However the capability of voluntary disconnection f... see morerom the external grid and autonomous operation is often a requirement for some industrial power systems and power plants. The panel session at the 2012 IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference on
“Power system islands, autonomous microgrids and relevant instrumentation” aims at providing an occasion to exchange ideas and experiences in order to envisage situations in which voluntary power system islanding may be useful and to define the instrumentation required for a reliable operation in islanded conditions. This paper, provided by the organizers, reviews some activities recently carried out on this topic at their institution.

Authors: A. Borghetti, L. Peretto

Tag(s): Power systems islanding, microgrids, measurements.

Author: n.sene
Type: Publication
Date: 2015-04-02

SITL and HLA Co-simulation Platforms: Tools for Analysis of the Integrated ICT and Electric Power System

Description:
Due to the necessity of developing analysis tools in the integrated ICT and power system domain, this paper describes and compares the architecture and configuration of two different ITC-power system ... see moreco-simulation approaches called SITL (System in the Loop) and HLA (High Level Architecture) Co-simulation platforms. Both platforms make use of the communication network simulator OPNET (Optimum Network Performance). As indicated by the names, the former operates in real time, in order to perform SITL simulations, whilst the latter is based on the HLA interface between OPNET and the power network simulation environment EMTP-rv (Electromagnetic Transient Program). We provide several details on their implementation and present their features by means of the results obtained for two test cases. The paper aims at clarifying the type of analysis that can be effectively carried out by using the two different platforms.

Authors: Riccardo Bottura, Davood Babazadeh, Kun Zhu, Alberto Borghetti, Lars Nordström, Carlo Alberto Nucci

EuroCon 2013 • 1-4 July 2013 • Zagreb, Croatia

Tag(s): Co-simulation, OPNET, EMTP, High level architecture, System in the loop, Smart grid, OPAL-RT.

Author: n.sene
Type: Publication
Date: 2015-04-02

lCT -power Co-simulation Platform for the Analysis of Communication-based Volt/Var Optimization in Distribution Feeders

Description:
The paper presents an ICT and power co-simulation platform for the analysis of the voltlvar control and relevant optimization in medium voltage distribution feeders, achieved by means of a system of d... see moreistributed controllers coordinated via a shared band-limited digital communication network. The platform has been built by realizing the interface between two specific simulation environments:
the Electromagnetic Transient Program EMTP-RV and the communication network simulator Opnet Modeller. The preliminary results provide basic indications on the expected performances of the considered communication-based strategies for ditJerent tratlic congestion levels and load/generation dynamic variations.

Authors: Riccardo Bottura, Alberto Borghetti, Fabio Napolitano, Carlo Alberto Nucci

Tag(s): Co-simulation, Networked Control Systems, Power distribution feeders, Voltlvar optimization.

Author: n.sene
Type: Publication
Date: 2015-04-02

Simulation of the Volt/Var Control in Distribution Feeders by Means of a Networked Multiagent System

Description:
The adoption of networked multiagent systems (MAS) has been recently proposed for the solution of the volt/var control (VVC) problem in distribution feeders. However, constraints and limitations due t... see moreo the communication network, to the dynamic behavior of power system components and regulators, as well as to the measurement uncertainties of the adopted sensors need to be specifically analyzed for the design of the MAS. For this purpose, a cosimulation platform has been built by the integration of two simulation tools:
1) the electromagnetic transient program EMTP-rv; and 2) the communication network simulator Riverbed-OPNET Modeler. This paper presents the modeling and simulation of an asynchronous leaderless MAS-based approach that coordinates the reactive power outputs of a set of power compensators equipped with phasor measurement units via a shared band-limited packet-switched digital communication network. The effects of communication network latency and packet loss on the VVC performances are analyzed for two unbalanced IEEE Test feeders equipped with on-load tap changer transformers. The paper compares the results obtained by using a transmission control protocol (TCP) and a user datagram protocol (UDP), for different levels of background traffic (BT) and different packet discard ratios (PDRs) in the communication links.

Authors: Riccardo Bottura, Student Member, IEEE, and Alberto Borghetti, Senior Member, IEEE

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS, VOL. 10, NO. 4, NOVEMBER 2014

Tag(s): Cosimulation, medium voltage distribution feeders, multiagent systems (MAS), networked control systems (NCS), phasor measurement unit (PMU), volt/var control (VVC).

Author: n.sene
Type: Publication
Date: 2015-04-01

DISPERSED ENERGY RESOURCES SCHEDULING FOR THE INTENTIONAL ISLANDING OPERATION OF DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS

Description:
The paper presents an algorithm for the automatic optimal scheduling of dispersed energy resources (DERs) and of under-load tap changers (ULTCs) position. The aim of the scheduling problem consists in... see more the minimization of the voltage deviations with respect the rated value, of the DERs production deviation with respect the maximum efficiency point, and of the network losses.
The system incorporates also a procedure to facilitate the intentional islanding maneuver of the distribution network. The adopted approach is based on iterative solution of linear-constrained multi-objective optimization problems. The nonlinear power flow relationships are linearized by means of the calculation of sensitivity coefficients to small variations of the control variables (namely, controllable DERs power outputs and ULTCs positions). The algorithm is implemented in Matlab environment to exploit different solvers and suitably interfaced with EMTP-RV for three-phase power flow detailed calculations. In particular, two optimization solvers are adopted: the least square method and the goal attainment approach. The relevant results are compared using the IEEE 34-node distribution feeder as test case.

Authors: A. Borghetti, C.A. Nucci, M. Paolone, M. Bosetti

Tag(s): Dispersed generation, active distribution networks, islanding operation.