Elizabeth A. Devore

In my power system stability class we spent a semester learning how industry handles and works to avoid power line/system stability issues. Throughout the course we discussed how protection devices (relays and breakers) are used to avoid damage to the system and widespread consumer outages. We learned that an important consideration for stability studies is the critical clearing time, or the maximum time a disturbance can be applied without losing system stability.

For our final project, we were asked to simulate multiple contingencies, or multiple critical clearing times, for a provided sixteen bus power system using PSS/E. PSS/E is a power system planning software that is used in the power industry for power flow analysis and system stability assessments.

This project not only applied what I learned in lecture, but also exposed me to software that I may use in the future.

 

More details about the project set-up and calculations can be found here.