Power System Modeling, Computation, and Control

Provides students with an understanding of the modeling and practice in power system stability analysis and control design, as well as the computational tools used by commercial vendors

Bringing together wind, FACTS, HVDC, and several other modern elements, this book gives readers everything they need to know about power systems. It makes learning complex power system concepts, models, and dynamics simpler and more efficient while providing modern viewpoints of power system analysis.

Power System Modeling, Computation, and Control provides students with a new and detailed analysis of voltage stability; a simple example illustrating the BCU method of transient stability analysis; and one of only a few derivations of the transient synchronous machine model. It offers a discussion on reactive power consumption of induction motors during start-up to illustrate the low-voltage phenomenon observed in urban load centers. Damping controller designs using power system stabilizer, HVDC systems, static var compensator, and thyristor-controlled series compensation are also examined. In addition, there are chapters covering flexible AC transmission Systems (FACTS)―including both thyristor and voltage-sourced converter technology―and wind turbine generation and modeling.

• Simplifies the learning of complex power system concepts, models, and dynamics
• Provides chapters on power flow solution, voltage stability, simulation methods, transient stability, small signal stability, synchronous machine models (steady-state and dynamic models), excitation systems, and power system stabilizer design
• Includes advanced analysis of voltage stability, voltage recovery during motor starts, FACTS and their operation, damping control design using various control equipment, wind turbine models, and control
• Contains numerous examples, tables, figures of block diagrams, MATLAB plots, and problems involving real systems
• Written by experienced educators whose previous books and papers are used extensively by the international scientific community

Power System Modeling, Computation, and Control is an ideal textbook for graduate students of the subject, as well as for power system engineers and control design professionals.

JOE H. CHOW (周祖康), PHD, FIEEE, NAE, is Institute Professor of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA.

JUAN J. SANCHEZ-GASCA, PHD, FIEEE, is a Technical Director at GE Energy Consulting, Schenectady, NY, USA.