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Abstract—A novel Voltage Stability Toolbox(VST) is flexible tool to analyze power system voltage stability using
introduced, which is programmed using Matlab math language, bifurcation method.
and the features of its open source code and a complete set of Software toolboxes for power system analysis can be
user-friendly graphical interfaces are detailed. It implements basically divided into two classes of tools: commercial
standard Newton-Raphson (NR) and Newton-Raphson-Seydel
(NRS) convergent algorithms to analyze the voltage stability and
softwares and educational/research-aimed softwares. The
bifurcation of power system. The main functions of VST include former commonly used are PSS/E, ATP, PSCAD etc., those
power flow, time domain simulation, singularity analysis, softwares are typically well-tested and computationally
eigenvalue analysis, as well as static and dynamic bifurcation efficient. Despite their completeness, these softwares can
analysis. VST is a very helpful tool to understand voltage result cumbersome for educational and research purposes.
stability and nonlinear bifurcation phenomenon. Test results of For research purposes, the flexibility and the ability of easy
the application of this toolbox in a five-bus system with three
generators and IEEE 30-bus test system are presented to show
prototyping are often more crucial aspects than
the practicality and effectiveness of the VST. computational efficiency. On the other hand, there is a
variety of open source research tools based on Matlab, which
Index Terms-- voltage stability toolbox; Matlab; voltage are typically aimed at a specific aspect of power system
stability; bifurcation analysis analysis[6-7].
Some of the Matlab-based toolboxes are: Power System
I. INTRODUCTION Analysis Toolbox(PSAT)[6], Power System Toolbox(PST),
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bus 2 bus 4 bus 1
jX d jX d
G G
generator 2 generator 1
jX d Pd 4,Qd 4
bus 3
jX d
G
generator 3 Pd5,Qd5
bus 5
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amplitude, active power, reactive power, respectively. As shown in TABLE Ⅲ and TABLE Ⅳ, null space vector
of V7 and δ7 are more sensitive to the increasing α.
TABLE I SENSITIVITY OF REMEDIAL ACTION VECTOR VERSUS α
Similarly, remedial action vector of P7 and Q7 is more
OF FIVE-BUS SYSTEM
sensitive to the increasing α, which means node 7 is the
State variables P2 P3 P4 Q4 P5 Q5 critical node of the system at the load increase mode. The
Sensitivity of α 0.1254 0.5183 0.1762 0.0810 0.4200 0.7083 adjacent region of node 7 is the dangerous region of the
system; to analyze the change of the system variables around
TABLE Ⅱ SENSITIVITY OF NULL SPACE VERTOR VERSUS α OF node 7 can provide practical information of prevention and
FIVE-BUS SYSTEM remedial control for voltage stability.
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VI. BIOGRAPHIES
Yanfang Wei was born in HeNan, China, 1982. He received the B.S. and
M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Henan Polytechnic University, in
2006 and 2008, respectively. Now he is pursing the Ph.D. degree at Hohai
University, Nanjing, China.
His main research interests are power system analysis and its control.
Zhinong WEI was born in JiangSu, China, in 1962. He received the B.S.
degree from Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China in 1984 and M.S.
degree from Southeast University, Nanjing, China in 1987. He then received
his Ph.D. degree from Hohai University, Nanjing, China in 2004. He is now
a professor at Hohai University.
His research interests include state estimation, voltage stability, smart
distribution systems, optimization and planning, load forecasting and
integration of distributed generation into electric power systems.
Guoqiang SUN was born in JiangSu, China, in 1978. He received the B.S.,
M.S. and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Hohai University,
Nanjing, China, in 2001, 2005 and 2010, respectively. He is currently a
lecturer in the College of Energy and Electrical Engineering, at Hohai
University, China.
His main research interests are power system analysis and its control.
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