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Voltage control of distributed network with no infinite bus

Voltage control of distributed network with no infinite bus

Voltage control of distributed network with no infinite bus

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Hi,

I have the following voltage control problem for which I'd appreciate any opinions from other members in the group:

We have a power network consisting of 10 x 42.5MVA gas turbine generators (GTGs) which are distributed over four separate substations such that at there are three GTGs installed on the first, three on the second, two on the third and two on the fourth.  Each substation has a common 33kV bus and the substations are tied together via a 132kV bus so that power flow from one substation to another is possible (via 132/33 transformers) if there is more load on a substation than the local generation can supply.  (The 132k bus is NOT connected to a utility grid.)

My problem is that there does not appear to be obvious solution to controlling the voltage on the system and it is difficult to determine  whether the system will really behave as predicted in the modelling software.  

It appears that setting all generators to voltage control mode and allowing them to control the local 33kV bus to within 0.99 and 1.01pu whilst also allowing the local 33/132kV transformer to maintain the 33kV voltage at 1pu (but setting its relay bandwidth to +/- 1.5% so that it should not conflict with the generator voltage control) appears to maintain the 33kV and 132kV voltages to +/- 5% for a wide variety of loads / generator combinations.

Other options I'm looking at include using two generators to control the 132kV busbar voltage but then setting all other generators to run on voltage control as described above.

Any opinions on similar systems and experience of problems with the methods described above would be much appreciated!

Damian

RE: Voltage control of distributed network with no infinite bus

You may want to repost this in the Electric Power Engineering forum or the Power Generating Facility Engineering forum. Some of the experts in there do not necessarilly visit this forum and may be more familiar with your problem.

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