At present, it is very common to find renewable energy resources, especially wind power, connected to distribution systems. The impact of this wind power on voltage distribution levels has been addressed in the literature. The majority of this works deals with the determination of the maximum active and reactive power that is possible to be connected on a system load bus, until the voltage at t...

The frequent occurrence of voltage instability in a modern power system is alarming and thus, has been of great concern to power system utilities. In this paper, a new performance index based on the power flow solutions for voltage stability assessment of a power system is presented. First, the voltage deviation with respect to reactive power load variation at each load bus is found. Thereafter...

Frequency-dependent third and fourth moments of the Barkhausen signal from a soft amorphous ferromagnet are measured. The data indicate strong coupling between the power in different frequency bands. The sign of the time asymmetry of a third-order voltage correlation indicates that the high-frequency Barkhausen events, on average, systematically precede the low-frequency Barkhausen events. The ...

At present, it is very common to find renewable energy resources, especially wind power, connected to distribution systems. The impact of this wind power on voltage distribution levels has been addressed in the literature. The majority of this works deals with the determination of the maximum active and reactive power that is possible to be connected on a system load bus, until the voltage at t...

This paper proposes a Neural Network-Based method for on-line maximum loadability estimation, for an optimized power system voltage stability profile. A simulated annealing optimization technique for optimal voltage stability profile through out the whole power network was used. The minimization of the voltage stability index at each individual load bus as well as the global voltage stability i...

This paper presents a simple simulation approach to study static voltage stability in power systems. Symbolic and Optimization toolboxes in MATLAB are used to simulate load flow, continuation power flow and optimization techniques to easily assess and understand static voltage stability of power systems. P-V curves are constructed to calculate loadability margins. These margins are verified wit...

Mechanical and heat treatment affects microstructure, hardness, and residual stresses in the surface layer. Micromagnetic examination of the material can determine the correlation between the changes in microstructure or hardness and permeability and electrical conductivity of the material. With a defined analysis frequency fa and by monitoring the Barkhausen noise variations, the depth propert...

Synchronous machines installed in recently developed small-scale hydro power plants in Norway have relatively high values of the synchronous reactances, as well as the sub-transient and transient reactances. Typical synchronous reactance is 2 – 2.5 pu, but values up to 3.1 pu are experienced, which is 3 times the typical values for larger low-speed synchronous generators (with salient poles). H...

Static synchronous compensator (STATCOM) is a shunt connected voltage source converter (VSC), which can affect rapid control of reactive flow in the transmission line by controlling the generated a.c. voltage. The main aim of the paper is to design a power system installed with a Static synchronous compensator (STATCOM) and demonstrates the application of the linearised Phillips-heffron model i...