Qatar University

College of Engineering
Department of Electrical Engineering
ELEC 424 Operation of Power Systems
Fall 2020

Assignment_3 (chapter 7)
Due date: Thursday 24 September

Objective: Evaluate the security of a power system (CLO: c)

Instructor: Dr. Rashid Alammari, TA: Engineer Mazen Faiter

One problem, two parts (a) and (b) (15 + 5 marks) Total marks: 20

Instructions to students
You must clearly demonstrate your calculation for every step of the solution.

Problem (a) [15 marks]

For the system shown below,

a) Build the power transfer distribution factor (PTDF) matrix for transactions from
each generator to the load on bus 3. Fill-in the table (show your calculations for all
values).
Line Gen. at Bus 1 to Load at Gen. at Bus 2 to Load at Gen. at Bus 4 to Load at
Bus 3 Bus 3 Bus 3
1, 2
1, 3 0.586476
1, 4
2, 4 -0.060150
3, 4
 Part (b) [5 marks]

b) Calculate the line outage distribution factors (LODF) for an outage of line 1–3.
Fill-in the line outage table below.

You may use the following formula

Where
l = line where the power flow is being calculated
k = line being dropped
n, m = busses at the end of the line being dropped
PTDFn,m,l = power transfer distribution factor to calculate effect on line l from
injection of power into bus n and extraction from bus m.
PTDFn,m,k = power transfer distribution factor to calculate effect on line k from
injection of power into bus n and extraction from bus m.

Fill-in the table (show your calculations for all values).

Line Outage
Line Line outage at 1, 3

1, 2

1, 3

1, 4

2, 4

3, 4