• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers A
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• v.48 no.7
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• pp.824-831
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• 1999

This paper presents new methods to resolve the important limits in the decoupled UPFC model for power flow, by which conventional power flow program can be performed with addition of two buses per one UPFC. In order to operate UPFC to the desired value, the series voltage and shunt current of UPFC should be computed. So a method of calculating these by simple equations after power flow is derived. However, the calculated magnitude of series voltage and/or shunt current of UPFC may not be allowed because of the UPFC limit \ulcorner to the ratings of inverters. In this case, the active power and the reactive power (or the voltage magnitude) of UPFC buses should be revised to resolve the limit. This paper proposes the Newton Raphson method to resolve these limits. Particularly, when resolving the series voltage magnitude, three strategies are proposed according to the priority of the active power and the reactive power (or the voltage magnitude).

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers A
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• v.49 no.11
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• pp.531-535
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• 2000

A method to compute the reactive powers of the added buses by the decoupled UPFC model for the optimal voltage profile is presented, by which the voltage magnitudes of PQ buses can get closer to the reference value(usually one p.u.). The performance index for assessing how much the voltage magnitude is closer to the reference value is defined as the squared sum of the present voltage minus the reference voltage multiplied by the weighting number associated with the relative importance of the buses. Numerical example in a 10-unit 39-bus power system with 2 UPFC's shows that the performance index can be very much reduced by operating many UPFC's with the reactive powers for the optimal voltage profile proposed in this paper.

• KIEE International Transactions on Power Engineering
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• v.12A no.1
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• pp.31-35
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• 2002

This paper presents a new operation scheme of UPFC to minimize both generation costs and active power losses in a normal operation state of power system. In a normal operation, cost minimization is a matter of primary concern among operating objectives. This paper considers two kinds of costs, generation costs and transmission losses. The total generation cost of active powers can be minimized by optimal power flow, and active power losses in the transmission system can be also minimized by power flow control of UPFC incorporated with minimization of generation costs. In order to determine amounts of active power reference of each UPFC required for the cost minimization, an iterative optimization algorithm based on the power flow calculation using the decoupled UPFC model is proposed. For verification of the proposed method, intensive studies have been performed on a 3-unit 6-bus system equipped with a UPFC.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers A
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• v.50 no.8
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• pp.388-394
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• 2001

This paper presents how to determine the optimal operating points of Unified Power Flow controllers (UPFC) the line flow control of which can enhance system security level. In order to analyze the effect of these devices on the power system, the decoupled model has been employed as a mathematical model of UPFC for power flow analysis. The security index that indicates the level of congestion of transmission line has been proposed and minimized by iterative method. The sensitivity of objective function for control variables of and UPFC has been derived, and it represents the change in the security index for a given set of changes in real power outputs of UPFC. The proposed algorithm with sensitivity analysis gives the optimal set of operating points of multiple UPECs that reduces the index or increases the security margin and Marquart method has been adopted as an optimization method because of stable convergence. The algorithm is verified by the 10-unit 39-bus New England system that includes multiple FACTS devices. The simulation results show that the power flow congestion can be relieved in normal state and the security margin can be guaranteed even in a fault condition by the cooperative operation of multiple UPECs.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1999.07c
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• pp.1290-1292
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• 1999

In this paper. continuation power flow for Power system including UPFC has been performed. The decoupled model, by which power flow can be performed without any modification of conventional power flow program is used as steady-state model. A numerical example has been given to analyze the influence on the voltage stability by UPFC.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2002.07a
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• pp.277-279
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• 2002

본 논문은 UPFC(Unified Power Flow Controi)의 유효전력 및 무효전력의 제어를 통해 시스템의 레벨을 향상시키기 위한 운용 알고리즘을 제시한다. 전력 계통에서 UPFC의 효과 분석하기 위해 분리형 모델(decoupled model)을 이용하였다. 본 논문에서는 계통의 조류 및 전압을 이용한 안전도 지수가 제시되었고, 이를 반복계산(iterative method)을 통해 최소화하였다. 이를 위해 각 안전도 지수의 민감도 벡터가 최소화되는 방향으로 UPFC의 운전점을 찾고, 이로써 시스템의 안전도를 증대시킨다. 제안된 알고리즘은 다기의 UPFC를 대상으로 IEEE 30 모선에 적용하여 시스템 안전도 레벨을 검토하였다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2000.07a
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• pp.265-267
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• 2000

A method to compute the reactive powers of the added buses by the decoupled UPFC model for the optimal voltage profile is presented, by which the voltage magnitudes of PQ buses can get closer to the reference value(usually one p.u.). The performance index for assessing how much the voltage magnitude is closer to the reference value is defined as the squared sum of the present voltage minus the reference voltage multiplied by the weighting number associated with the relative importance of the buses. Numerical example in a 10-unit 39-bus power system with 2 UPFC's shows that the performance index can be very much reduced by operating multi UPFC's with the reactive powers for the optimal voltage profile proposed in this paper.