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Hybrid tools of generating unit simulation for proper tuning of automatic voltage regulators: concept, development and validation

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The penetration of renewable-based converter-interfaced generation and flexible alternating current transmission systems significantly changes properties and dynamic characteristics of modern electric power systems, which leads to the need to take measures to ensure security of their operation. These measures may consist in using the capabilities of new penetrated units or in adapting conventional means. Such adaptation consists in reconfiguration of control systems, development of new systems or approaches to settings determination, which include tuning of automatic voltage regulators with power system stabilizers of conventional synchronous generation. This paper proposes a new approach to tuning of automatic voltage regulators, based on the use of the most complete and reliable information about processes in modern power systems. This approach allows to get settings that are most adequate to practical conditions of operation as part of power systems. For this purpose, the hybrid real-time power system simulator and concept of hybrid modeling are used, and within this paper, and the hybrid modeling tools necessary for the tuning process have been developed. The result of the study is a comprehensive assessment of the reliability of the simulation results obtained using the developed tools, which allows to conclude about the possibility of their application.

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Abbreviations

ACS :

Automatic control system

ADC :

Analog-to-digital converters

AVR :

Automatic voltage regulator

CIG :

Converter-interfaced generation

CPU :

Central processing unit

DAC :

Digital-analog converter

EMT :

Electromagnetic transient

EPS :

Electric power system

FACTS :

Flexible alternating current transmission system

HCPAL :

Hybrid co-processor of auxiliary load

HCPES :

Hybrid co-processor of excitation system

HCPMM :

Hybrid co-processor of multi-mass shaft model

HCPPT :

Hybrid co-processor of power transformer

HCPSG :

Hybrid co-processor of synchronous generator

HRTSim :

Hybrid real-time power system simulator

MPU :

Microprocessor unit

NMEE :

Normalized maximum estimation error

NMSE :

Normalized mean squared error

PADC :

Processor of analog-to-digital conversion

PDQ :

Processor of dq transformation

PMB :

Physical model of breakers

PMFS :

Physical model of fault switches

PPCSP :

Peripheral processor of control systems and protection,

PSS :

Power system stabilizer

RTDS :

Real-time digital simulator

SP :

Specialized processor

SwPB :

Switching processor of breakers

SwPFS :

Switching processor of fault switches

SwPTC :

Switching processor of thyristor-based converters

VCC :

Voltage-to-current converter

VF :

Voltage follower

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    Alisher Askarov, Mikhail Andreev, Alexander Gusev & Vladimir Rudnik

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Askarov, A., Andreev, M., Gusev, A. et al. Hybrid tools of generating unit simulation for proper tuning of automatic voltage regulators: concept, development and validation. Electr Eng 104, 1591–1606 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00202-021-01419-x

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