Impact of SVC and PSS on Stability of

a Large Interconnected Power Plant 5000 MW

Three Machines Transmission System
Matlab/Simulink
Author: Saman Abbasian
The scope of this project is to investigate the impact of PSS and SVC static var compensator on
different faults situations such as 3LLL and LG in a large load centre of 5000 MW fed from power
plants 1000 MW and 500 MW respectively and a local generation of 5000 MW.

Transmission systems includes five overhead lines and the longest is between two substations B5 and
B2 around 600Km and all interconnected lines will be capable of carrying 1100 MW which is close to
SIL of the transmission lines.

In previous study it was shown in both ETAP and Simulink when the largest machines started up how
SVC can keep the voltage variations in an adjusted bandwidth with less overshoot to maintain the
stability of the system.

This model is purely focused on fault situations to observer how PSS with SVC helps to keep the
synchronism during fault and post fault condition.

Power System Components

Transformer T1 500 MVA Transmission lines
Transformer T2 1000 MVA L21 500km
Transformer T3 3000 MVA L31 400km
Generator G1 500MVA-PV L34 500km
Generator G2 1000MVA-SWING L45 480km
Generator G3 5000MVA-PV L52 600km
Case studies

1- Single phase fault at bus 5 at instant 5 and cleaning 5.1s no SVC with PSS
2- Single phase fault at bus 5 at instant 5 and cleaning 5.1s with SVC and PSS
3- Three phase fault at bus 5 at instant 5 and cleaning 5.1s no SVC with PSS
4- Three phase fault at bus 5 at instant 5 and cleaning 5.1s with SVC and PSS

Results:

Fig1: It shows that the system is unstable during the LG fault and post fault when SVC is not in
operation even with the presence of PSS

Fig2: It shows that the system is stable during the LG fault and post fault when SVC is in operation
with the presence of PSS

Fig3: It shows that the system is unstable during the 3LLL fault and post fault when SVC is not in
operation even with the presence of PSS

Fig4: It shows that the system is stable during the 3LLL fault and post fault when SVC is in operation
with the presence of PSS

Conclusion:

For both cases LG and 3LLL faults without SVC, system is unstable even when PSS is in operation on
the generators. It is obvious when a power system is large and long lines are interconnected, system
will get unstable even with a LG fault and rotor angles between three machines exceeds 90 degrees
and it results in losing their synchronism.

The graphs 2,4 respectively show that generator speeds and obviously generator G3 has a speed
increase during the fault since the electrical power is lower than its mechanical power and the speed
is oscillating at a low frequency 0.025Hz during the post fault until reaching to stability at 1p.u.

It is also obvious that when a SVC connected into the power system during the severe contingency, it
will inject the reactive power to the line to compensate the bus voltage variation compared with
reference voltage 1p.u. In addition, from plots 2 and 4, the voltage drop for a 3LLL is higher than the
LG fault.
Fig1: Single phase fault at bus 5 at instant 5 and cleaning 5.1s no SVC with PSS
Rotor angle variation

When LG happens

Voltage drop 0.6 p.u

when LG happens

Fig2: Single phase fault at bus 5 at instant 5 and cleaning 5.1s with SVC and PSS
Fig3: Three phase fault at bus 5 at instant 5 and cleaning 5.1s no SVC and PSS
 Rotor variations when
3LLL happens

Voltage drop 1.8 p.u

when 3LLL fault happens

Fig4: Three phase fault at bus 5 at instant 5 and cleaning 5.1s with SVC and PSS