GPU-accelerated N-1 static security analysis based on fine-grained parallelism HELM. (October 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Chen, Weiran; Xu, Jin; Wang, Keyou
• Is Part Of: International journal of electrical power & energy systems. Volume 141(2022)
• Publication Date: 2022-10
• Subjects: Holomorphic embedding load flow method -- Graphics processing units -- N-1 static security analysis -- Connectivity test; Electrical engineering -- Periodicals; Electric power systems -- Periodicals; Électrotechnique -- Périodiques; Réseaux électriques (Énergie) -- Périodiques; Electric power systems; Electrical engineering; Periodicals; 621.3
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ijepes.2022.108074
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0142-0615

Abstract

Abstract: With the increment of scale of power system, the accuracy and efficiency requirements of N-1 static security analysis (SSA) keep increasing. In order to satisfy these requirements, this paper proposed a GPU-accelerated N-1 SSA method to reduce computation burden and ensure the accuracy of alternating current power flow (ACPF) and connectivity test simultaneously. First, in the algorithm, ACPF is performed by holomorphic embedding load flow method (HELM). The construction and solution of sparse linear system both adopts fine-grained parallelism. According to the mathematical lemma of combining linear equations, this paper performs fine-grained parallelism Padé approximation of HELM. Second, considering the high time complexity of the original search-based algorithm and adjacency matrix method which is not suitable for sparse graph, this paper proposes a GPU-accelerated Union Set algorithm. Its main advantage is lower time complexity compared to other graph theory methods. And most importantly, it is very suitable for parallelization. Shared memory can be used in this algorithm well. Therefore, it is not complicated to perform a block-level parallelism in GPU-accelerated Union Set. Finally, the overall framework of GPU-accelerated N-1 SSA method is shown in this paper. It has been tested on large-scale power systems of up to 2869 buses. The computation results are compared with MATPOWER and the execution times are compared with other mainstream method to show the improvement in performance. Highlights: Significant improvement in accuracy for power system N-1 static security analysis. GPU-based sparse linear system equations solver Fine-grained parallelism HELM to accelerated ACPF for N-1 static security analysis A block-level parallelism GPU-based Union Set algorithm to accelerate connectivity test.