A Rapid Active Power Regulating Technique for A Virtual Small-hydro Cluster. (May 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Jialiang, Fang; Weiqiang, Zha; Zhi, Li; Xinghai, Zhang; Shichun, Li; Hongyan, Tang; Xiaolin, Lei
• Is Part Of: IOP conference series. Volume 146(2018)
• Publication Date: 2018-05
• Subjects: Earth sciences -- Periodicals; Environmental sciences -- Congresses; Environmental sciences -- Periodicals; 550.5
• DOI: 10.1088/1755-1315/146/1/012054
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1755-1307

Abstract

Abstract: A rapid active power regulating technique for a virtual small-hydro cluster is studied in this paper. The virtual small-hydro cluster consists of several decentralized small-hydro power stations, which quickly responds to the active power target instructions of real-time dispatch and AGC. Furthermore, the power fluctuation of the delivery cross-section caused by intermittent power source in short-term scale can be efficiently smoothed. When any tie line transmission power reaches its thermal stability limit, the active power target instructions is allocated according to the sensitivity priority of small-hydro power plants to threshold-crossing lines among the small-hydro cluster. When all the tie lines transmission powers are within their thermal stability limits, the active power target instruction is allocated on the basis of the priority of the summation of product of tie line power variations and sensitivity of small-hydro power stations to tie lines. Under the constraint of fulfilling the active power target instructions, the simulation results show that the adopted control strategy and allocation algorithm can effectively decrease the power fluctuation of each tie line.