Power System Impedance Estimation Using a Fast Voltage and Current Changes Measurements

Martin Kanálik, Anastázia Margitová, Ľubomír Beňa and Andrea Kanáliková
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Martin Kanálik: Department of Electric Power Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Technical University of Košice, Letná 9, 042 00 Košice, Slovakia
Anastázia Margitová: Department of Electric Power Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Technical University of Košice, Letná 9, 042 00 Košice, Slovakia
Ľubomír Beňa: Department of Power Electronics and Power Engineering, Rzeszow University of Technology, 35-959 Rzeszow, Poland
Andrea Kanáliková: Department of Applied Mathematics and Descriptive Geometry, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Institute of Technology, Economics and Management in Construction, Technical University of Košice, Vysokoškolská 4, 042 00 Košice, Slovakia

Energies, 2020, vol. 14, issue 1, 1-22

Abstract: Equivalent power system impedance is an important electrical quantity from many points of view. Areas in which this parameter plays an important role include, in particular: Voltage stability analysis, power quality, or fault condition analysis. Power system impedance estimation in real operation conditions can be performed by one of the non-invasive methods described by different authors. This paper aims to investigate and compare seven different methods for power system impedance estimation based on voltage and current variations measurement. After a brief description of selected methods, these methods were applied for power system impedance estimation in the case of two simple simulation tests and then in the case of three real measured data. Voltage and current changes used for power system impedance estimation in real conditions were measured in high voltage (HV) and medium voltage (MV) substations feeding steel mill with the electric arc furnace (EAF) operation. As the results presented in this paper have shown, not all of the methods analyzed are suitable for determining the power system impedance based on the fast step changes of voltage and current that occur, for example, during an EAF operation. Indeed, some of the tested methods were originally designed to determine the power system impedance from changes in voltages and currents recorded at steady state.

Keywords: power system impedance; Thevenin equivalent; system impedance measurement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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