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Final Project: Executive Summary

Nolan Cardona, Keve Hughes, Cody Juracek, John Kivley, Mary Le, Russ Paulsen
College of Engineering, Iowa State University
EE 456: Power Systems Analysis I
Dr. Ian Dobson
November 25, 2020
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Introduction
For the project, we were given an existing power system called the Eagle Power System
consisting of three power generators and twelve loads. In addition to the three power generators,
nine loads are located in a rural setting with the remaining five loads in an urban setting; Figure
1 depicts the described power grid. There are two operating base voltages within this grid, the
majority of the grid functions on 161kV whereas stations 10; 13; 16; and 17 operate on 69kV,
with an operating base power of 100MVA. In order to properly step-down the voltage, there are
two transformer connections being made - one between buses 9-17 and the other between 15-16.
The purpose of this report is to modify the Eagle Power System by including a thirteenth load of
40MW - the ‘Steel Mill’; the blue lines in Figure 1 - with a 30% increase to all of the remaining
loads, and show what effects it may have on the power system altogether. In addition, simulate
several power outage and flow disruption scenarios and observe if the power system is able to
sustain such losses.

Figure 1: Eagle Power System Transmission Map

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Task 1
The first task involved setting up the base case of the Eagle Power system on PSSE. These are
the following parameters we entered into the system.

Bus Data:

Branch Data:
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The following excel spreadsheet shows our calculations for ‘Line R (pu)’; ‘Line X (pu)’; and
‘Charging B (pu)’:

Load Data:
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Generator Data:

Transformer Data:

The following data is from the power flow solution on PSSE for task 1 and is further discussed
in our closing remarks.
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Task 2
The next task involved modifying the system to incorporate a new 40-MW ‘Steel Mill’ load
along with a 30% increase in all base case loads.
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Task 3
With the new additions made to the Eagle Power System, we were then able to run a few
simulations of possible power outages and power lines being disrupted or switched off. First we
tested an N-1 contingency when power line 5-11 was switched off, then removed power
generator OWL in addition to 5-11 as an N-2 contingency and observed its effects.
By removing the power generator OWL, it changes the losses in the different bus lines as well as
the real, reactive, and apparent power values of the buses. The following data shows the effects
that occurred.
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N-1
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N-2
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Closing Remarks
Our plan of attack was to use the voltage and power data for power lines 1-14 and 2-14 we got
from Task 1, calculate their currents and impedances, then use KVL equations to determine and
set the impedances in power lines 14-18 and 2-18. From there, it’s a matter of running the
simulation a second time - with the modified 30% added loads - and observe the power system’s
behavior. With all of that complete, we then would run Task 3. We did successfully run a
simulation of Task 3, just without the Steel Mill, and observed the power system compensating
for the disrupted connections. We do theorize that with the Steel Mill we would need to adjust
the impedance in the power lines to compensate for any voltage discrepancies.