SSSC (Static Synchronous Series Compensator) is a FACTS (Flexible Alternating Current Transmission System) device intended for control of power or energy flow in a grid. It is connected serially via a transformer, while also consisting of AC/DC and DC/AC converters and GTO thyristors. It injects voltage, properly sized and orientated, into the grid, given the current conditions. Problems can occur due to the fact that, in the proximity of the small voltage angles, an additional oscillation appears in a function of power in relation to voltage angle when SSSC is present, meaning that in parts of the statics, power and voltage angle differ in sign. Furthermore, when the voltages on both sides of SSSC are equally big, a step can appear in a graph.
The purpose of this diploma is to explore the dynamic phenomena after a short circuit when both power and angle oscillate through 0. This has been done using a Simulink simulation, made of combining previously made examples »power_turbine« and »power_SSSC«, to create a model containing everything needed. 7 simulations have been conducted, differing in the duration of the short circuit, magnitude of injected voltage UT and size of a generator. An additional example is showing the behaviour of the grid without the SSSC.
Upon completion, two main findings have been made:
- Generator always escapes when power and angle are signed differently after short circuit has ended, while it returns to its normal state, when they are not.
- There are situations, when the longer short circuit doesn’t necessarily mean a generators escape, and a shorter does. This is seen in some examples using a 200 MW generator, where short circuits shorter than 0.19 s don’t cause an escape, durations between 0.19 and 0.21 s do cause it, and durations from 0.21 to 0.26 s again don’t. Longer short circuits are too long to not cause an escape. Although this cannot be proven scientifically, using data gathered with these simulations, the likely cause for this is that, between the times of 0.19 to 0.21 s, the working point gets stuck in a part of the statics, where power and angle are signed differently, while shorter and longer durations cause the working point to either not reach this part of the statics, either it passes over it. Given the fact that this never occurs using a 500 MW generator, this phenomenon likely depends on the magnitude of power, rather than the width of the area with different negative angles.
If one was to expand this research, the analyses s would require a more advanced program, in order to get a more suiting explanation and proof for what is happening. Also it would provide an explanation for simulations with bigger UT, where the results have been unexpected.
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