This project presents a new addon self tuning control scheme to supplement its conventional PI control system in damping low frequency inter area power oscillations. Low frequency (0.1 to 0.8 Hz) inter-area oscillations are often observed when power systems interconnected through weak tie lines are subjected to disturbances such as faults, line outages and sudden load changes. Power System stab...

This paper presents an alternate approach for designing power system stabilizers (PSS) based on variable structure control to enhance small signal stability of Single Machine Infinite-Bus Power System (SMIB). The state feedback gains and switching surface have been tuned using Global Optimization (multistart clustering GO) for an Eigen value based performance index. The robustness of the propos...

The use of power system stabilizers (PSSs) to damp power system swing mode of oscillations is of practical important. The authors purpose is to retune the power system stabilizer (PSS1A) parameters in Unitrol D produced by ABB– was installed in 1995 in Benghazi North Power Plants (BNPPs) at General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL). Power systems are steadily growing with larger capacity, so...

Due to increasing size and complexity of electric power systems. there has been an increasing interest in stabilization of such large-scale power systems. In the past fixed gain controllers were effectively used for damping out the low f r e quency oscillations. These stabilizers are designed based on linearized model of power systems for a particular operating and system condition. They are un...

An important issue related to power system stability is to properly damp low frequency oscillations. Traditionally, these oscillations have been damped by means of power system stabilizers. In recent years, FACTS devices equipped with a power oscillation damper have been also efficiently used for damping oscillations. This paper is a tutorial for designing such power oscillation damper. The pap...

Low frequency oscillations (LFOs) have a dramatic effect on small signal stability of a power system. As power system started to operate near its stability limits, LFOs might lead to system instability. Power system stabilizers (PSSs) are provided with automatic voltage regulator to damp such effects. In this paper, an interval type-2 fuzzy logic power system stabilizer (IT2FLPSS) is proposed a...