System stability monitoring apparatus and method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10371592-B2
Application number	US-201415127822-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 19, 2014
Priority date	Mar 31, 2014
Publication date	Aug 6, 2019
Grant date	Aug 6, 2019

Abstract

When vibration information calculated using measurement information is classified using a distance between measurement points which is calculated using the point information, even in a case in which a plurality of vibration modes with close vibration frequencies are present at the same time, stability determination at a high speed and a high accuracy is realized. A system stability monitoring apparatus which monitors system stability of a power system includes a measurement information collecting unit that collects measurement information of a plurality of points in the power system, a vibration analyzing unit that calculates vibration information indicating vibration of a system state in the plurality of points using the measurement information, an information storage unit that stores point information including position information of the plurality of points, and a vibration classifying unit that classifies the vibration information based on the point information.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A system stability monitoring apparatus which monitors system stability of a power system comprising:
a measurement information collecting unit that collects measurement information of a plurality of points in the power system at a plurality of times;
a vibration analyzing unit that calculates vibration information at the plurality of points using the measurement information, the vibration information including a plurality of vibration frequencies, a plurality of attenuation coefficients, a plurality of amplitudes, and a plurality of initial phases;
an information storage unit that stores point information including position information for each of the plurality of points;
a vibration classifying unit that classifies the vibration information as a plurality of vibrations based on the point information to distinguish the plurality of vibrations at the plurality of points, where each of the vibrations includes at least one of the respective vibration frequencies, one or more points corresponding to at least one of the respective vibration frequencies, and respective attenuation coefficients, respective amplitudes and respective initial phases corresponding to the one or more of the points corresponding to the at least one of the respective vibration frequencies, and
the vibration classifying unit calculates a respective importance degree for each of the plurality of vibrations based on the respective amplitudes and the respective attenuation coefficients thereof; and
a display unit that displays the vibration information for at least a first vibration and a second vibration of the plurality of vibrations and displays a system diagram of the power system which includes a first region indicating the one or more points corresponding to the first vibration and a second region indicating the one or more points corresponding to the second vibration,
wherein the respective importance degree for the first vibration and the respective importance degree for the second vibration are higher than a predetermined value,
wherein the vibration classifying unit classifies the at least one of the respective vibration frequencies in a predetermined range as a same one of the vibrations.

2. The system stability monitoring apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the respective importance degree is calculated for each of the plurality of vibrations according to the equation:

S
i

=

max
j

⁢

(

a
ij

⁢

R
ij

)

+

max
j

⁢

(

b
ij

⁢

σ
ij

)

,

where S i is the respective importance degree of an i-th vibration, R ij is a j-th amplitude of the i-th vibration, σ ij is a j-th attenuation coefficient of the i-th vibration and a ij and b ij are predetermined coefficients.

3. The system stability monitoring apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein, based on past vibration information, the vibration classifying unit increases the respective importance degree in a case in which a change of the vibration information thereof is continuous over a predetermined period, or lowers the respective importance degree in a case in which the change of the vibration information thereof is not continuous over the predetermined period.

4. The system stability monitoring apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the vibration analyzing unit calculates the vibration information using any one method of a Fourier analysis, a wavelet analysis, a Purony's method, a Matrix Pencil method, and a Hankel Total Least Squares (HTLS) method.

5. The system stability monitoring apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the first region includes at least one point which is also included in the second region.

6. The system stability monitoring apparatus according to claim 5 ,
wherein the display unit displays the vibration information for at least the first vibration and the second vibration on a priority basis.

7. A system stability monitoring apparatus which monitors system stability of a power system comprising:
a measurement information collecting unit that collects measurement information at a plurality of points in the power system at a plurality of times, where each of the points is associated with a respective power generator, a respective load, or a respective phase modifier;
a vibration analyzing unit that calculates vibration information at the plurality of points using the measurement information, the vibration information including a plurality of vibration frequencies, a plurality of attenuation coefficients, a plurality of amplitudes, and a plurality of initial phases;
an information storage unit that stores point information including position information for each of the plurality of points;
a vibration classifying unit that classifies the vibration information as a plurality of vibrations based on the point information to distinguish the plurality of vibrations at the plurality of points, where each of the vibrations includes a respective vibration frequency, one or more points corresponding to the respective vibration frequency, and respective attenuation coefficients, respective amplitudes and respective initial phases corresponding to the one or more of the points corresponding to the respective vibration frequency; and
a display unit that displays the vibration information for at least a first vibration and a second vibration of the plurality of vibrations and displays a system diagram of the power system which includes a first region indicating the one or more points corresponding to the first vibration and a second region indicating the one or more points corresponding to the second vibration,
wherein the point information includes at least one of latitude information and longitude information of each the plurality of points, impedance information between the plurality of points, and characteristic information of at least one of the respective power generator, the respective load, and the respective phase modifier associated with the each of the plurality of points.

8. The system stability monitoring apparatus according to claim 7 ,
wherein, based on the impedance information and the characteristic information, the vibration classifying unit calculates a plurality of electrical distances between the plurality of points, and classifies the vibration information as the plurality of vibrations based on the plurality of electrical distances.

9. The system stability monitoring apparatus according to claim 7 ,

Assignees

• Hitachi Ltd

Inventors

• Yamazaki Jun
• Yatsu Masahiro
• Tobe Sumito
• Sato Yasuo
• Tomobe Osamu
• Kuroda Eisuke

Classifications

• H02J2101/28

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• H02J2101/24

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• H02J13/333

  the equipment forming part of substations · CPC title

• H02J13/10

  characterised by displaying of information or by user interaction, e.g. supervisory control and data acquisition [SCADA] systems · CPC title

• H02J13/1337 Primary

  involving the use of Internet protocols · CPC title