Distributed Emergency Frequency Control Considering Transient Stability Constraints in Multi-Infeed Hybrid AC-DC System

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel distributed emergency frequency control strategy for multi-infeed hybrid AC-DC systems, ensuring transient stability, frequency restoration, and improved control reliability through a general design method and stability analysis.

Contribution

It proposes a complementary distributed EFC strategy with semi- and fully-distributed control laws, guaranteeing transient stability and optimal frequency regulation in hybrid AC-DC systems.

Findings

The proposed control laws guarantee transient stability constraints.

The control strategy restores system frequency effectively.

The approach is validated through a case study.

Abstract

Due to possible emergency faults and frequency regulation reserve shortage in the multi-infeed hybrid AC-DC (MIDC) system, the emergency frequency control (EFC) with LCC-HVDC systems participating is important for system frequency stability. Nevertheless, the existing decentralized EFC strategies cannot guarantee the transient stability constraints of lines and cannot meet the frequency restoration requirement. To fill this gap, this paper proposes a complementary distributed EFC strategy. By selecting the semi-distributed or fully-distributed control law according to the state of AC system control center, the proposed distributed EFC can improve the control performance with a normal control center and enhance the control reliability in case of control center failure. Then, to derive the semi-distributed and fully-distributed control laws, a general design method is proposed by formulating an optimal EFC problem. Both of these two control laws can guarantee transient stability constraints, restore system frequency and achieve the defined optimal control objective. Moreover, the optimality of the closed-loop equilibrium is proven, and a Lyapunov analysis shows the asymptotic stability of the closed-loop system with the discontinuous control dynamics. A case study verifies the effectiveness of the proposed distributed EFC strategy.