TY - GEN
T1 - Conversion of Retired Coal-fired Plant to Synchronous Condenser to Support Weak AC Grid
AU - Kaur, Jagdeep
AU - Chaudhuri, Nilanjan Ray
N1 - Funding Information:
ACKNOWLEDGMENTNT Financial support from NSF under grant award ECCS 1656983 is acknowledged.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/12/21
Y1 - 2018/12/21
N2 - A proposal of using phased-out coal-fired generation as synchronous condensers in a power system with weak interconnection to large Type-3 wind farms exporting energy to remote load centers through Line Commutated Converter (LCC) High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) transmission is investigated. The frequency nadir (i.e, the minimum post-contingency frequency) and the rate of change of frequency in such systems following disturbances like loss of generation due to a single point failure are analyzed. LCC-HVDC rectifier is used for secondary frequency control in the weak AC system. Time-domain and frequency-domain analyses are performed on a 4-machine 2-area system connected to two remote wind farms on the rectifier side of the LCC-HVDC, which compare different scenarios and develop deeper insights into the root-cause of the frequency dynamics.
AB - A proposal of using phased-out coal-fired generation as synchronous condensers in a power system with weak interconnection to large Type-3 wind farms exporting energy to remote load centers through Line Commutated Converter (LCC) High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) transmission is investigated. The frequency nadir (i.e, the minimum post-contingency frequency) and the rate of change of frequency in such systems following disturbances like loss of generation due to a single point failure are analyzed. LCC-HVDC rectifier is used for secondary frequency control in the weak AC system. Time-domain and frequency-domain analyses are performed on a 4-machine 2-area system connected to two remote wind farms on the rectifier side of the LCC-HVDC, which compare different scenarios and develop deeper insights into the root-cause of the frequency dynamics.
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U2 - 10.1109/PESGM.2018.8585745
DO - 10.1109/PESGM.2018.8585745
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85060819269
T3 - IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting
BT - 2018 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PESGM 2018
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 2018 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PESGM 2018
Y2 - 5 August 2018 through 10 August 2018
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