vii TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 2 TITLE PAGE DECLARATION ii DEDICATION iii ACKNOWLEDGMENT iv ABSTRACT v ABSTRAK vi TABLE OF CONTENTS vii LIST OF TABLES x LIST OF FIGURES xi INTRODUCTION 1.1 Introduction 1 1.2 Problem Statement 2 1.3 Research Significant 3 1.4 Research Objectives 3 1.5 Research Methodology 4 1.6 Report Outline 5 LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 Introduction 6 2.2 Available Transfer Capability 6 2.2.1 Transfer Capability and Transmission Capacity 8 2.2.2 Limits of Transfer Capability 8 viii 2.3 Review Computation of ATC 10 2.4 Flexible AC Transmission System 11 2.4.1 Static Synchronous Compensator 13 2.4.2 Unified Power Flow Controller 14 2.5 Placement Strategy of FACTS 16 2.6 Review of Optimal Location Techniques 17 2.7 Power System Analysis Toolbox 17 2.8 3 18 METHODOLOGY 3.1 Introduction 20 3.2 Sensitivity Analysis Based on Loss Sensitive Index 20 3.2.1 LSI for STATCOM 21 3.2.2 LSI for UPFC 22 3.3 Criteria for Optimal Placement for UPFC and STATCOM 23 3.4 Continuation Power Flow 23 3.5 RPF and ATC 24 3.5.1 26 Matlab Code of RPF 3.6 Setting and Installing STATCOM and UPFC in PSAT 27 3.7 Project Process 29 3.8 4 Summary Summary 30 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 4.1 Introduction 32 4.2 Five Bus Test System 33 4.2.1 Comparison between LSI and CPF 33 4.2.2 Voltage and Real Power Profile 36 4.2.3 Computation of ATC 37 4.3 4.4 Fourteen Bus System 37 4.3.1 Comparison between LSI and CPF 38 4.3.2 Voltage and Real Power Profile 41 4.3.3 Computation of ATC 42 Twenty-Four Bus System 43 ix 4.5 5 4.4.1 LSI 44 4.4.2 Real Power Profile 45 4.4.3 Computation of ATC 46 Summary 46 CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE WORK 5.1 Conclusions 47 5.2 Future Work 48 REFERENCES Appendices A-C 49 52-70 x LIST OF TABLES TABLE NO. TITLE PAGE 4.1 LSI for STATCOM of 5-bus system 34 4.2 LSI for UPFC of 5-bus system 34 4.3 LSI for STATCOM of 14-bus system 39 4.4 LSI for UPFC of 14-bus system 39 4.5 LSI for STATCOM of 24-bus system 44 4.6 LSI for UPFC of 24-bus system 45 xi LIST OF FIGURES FIGURE NO. TITLE PAGE 2.1 Limits of Total Transfer Capability (TTC) 10 2.2 Thevenin equivalent circuit diagram of STATCOM (a) 13 STATCOM schematic diagram (b) STATCOM equivalent circuit 2.3 Voltage source model of UPFC 14 2.4 Main graphical user interface of PSAT 18 3.1 PV curve for 14-bus system 24 3.2 STATCOM at bus 1 27 3.3 UPFC between buses 3 to 2 28 3.4 STATCOM parameters block 28 3.5 UPFC parameters block 29 3.6 Flow chart of methodology 30 4.1 5-bus system 33 4.2 PV curve for 5-bus system 34 4.3 Loss for STATCOM 35 4.4 Loss for STATCOM 35 xii 4.5 Volt profile with and without FACTS 36 4.6 Active power profile with and without FACTS 36 4.7 ATC with STATCOM and UPFC 37 4.8 14-bus system 38 4.9 PV curve for 14-bus system 40 4.10 Loss for line 40 4.11 Volt profile with and without STATCOM 41 4.12 Volt profile with and without UPFC 41 4.13 Active power profile with and without FACTS 42 4.14 ATC with STATCOM and UPFC 42 4.15 24-bus system 43 4.16 Active power profile with and without FACTS 45 4.17 ATC with STATCOM and UPFC 46
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