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PowerFlow1
1. DoMultipleChoiceproblems6.9through6.20and6.24onpages357358ofthetextbook,Fifth
Edition.
a. (6.9)Fillintheblank.TheswingbusorslackbusisareferencebusforwhichV1atangle1,
typically1.0at0degreesperunit,isinputdata.Forthisbus,thepowerflowprogram
computes_______________________________.
b. (6.10)Fillintheblank.Mostbusesinatypicalpowerflowprogramareloadbuses,for
whichPkandQkareinputdata.Forthesebuses,thepowerflowprogramcomputes
______________________.
c. (6.11)Fillintheblanks.Foravoltagecontrolledbusk,________________areinputdata,
whilethepowerflowprogramcomputes____________.
d. (6.12)Fillintheblanks.Whenthebuskisaloadbuswithnogenerationandinductiveload,
intermsofgenerationandload,Pk=_______andQk=________.
e. (6.13)Fillintheblanks.Startingfromasinglelinediagramofapowersystem,theinput
dataforapowerflowproblemconsistsof____________,______________,and
______________.
f. (6.14)NodalequationsI=YbusVareasetoflinearequationsanalogoustoy=Ax.
(a)True
(b)False
g. (6.15)Becauseofthenatureofthepowerflowbusdata,nodalequationsdonotdirectlyfit
thelinearequationformatandpowerflowequationsareactuallynonlinear.However,
GaussSeidelmethodcanbeusedforthepowerflowsolution.
(a)True
(b)False
h. (6.16)TheNewtonRaphsonmethodismostwellsuitedforsolvingthenonlinearpower
flowequations.
(a)True
(b)False
i. (6.17)Fillintheblank.Bydefault,PowerWorldSimulatoruses_____________methodfor
thepowerflowsolution.
j. (6.18)Fillintheblanks.Primemovercontrolofageneratorisresponsibleforasignificant
changein__________,whereasexcitationcontrolsignificantlychanges_____________.
k. (6.19)Choosetherightword.Fromthepowerflowstandpoint,theadditionofashunt
capacitorbanktoaloadbuscorrespondstotheadditionofa(positive/negative)reactive
load.
l. (6.20)Tapchangingandvoltagemagnituderegulatingtransformersareusedtocontrolbus
voltageandreactivepowerflowsonlinestowhichtheyareconnected.
(a)True
(b)False
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HomeworkSet#8
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PowerFlow1
m. (6.24)Whilethefastdecoupledpowerflowusuallytakesmoreiterationstoconverge,itis
usuallysignificantlyfasterthantheNewtonRaphsonmethod.
(a)True
(b)False
2. (6.28)ConsiderthesimplifiedelectricpowersystemshowninFigure6.17forwhichthepower
flowsolutioncanbeobtainedwithoutresortingtoiterativetechniques.
P2 = 1.5 pu
|V2| = 1.1 pu
V1 = 1/ 0
Y = 2 j4
Y = 3 - j6
P3 = -1.5 pu
Q3 = +0.8 pu
Figure 6.17
Power System for Problem 2 (6.28)
a. ComputetheelementsofthebusadmittancematrixYbus.
b. Calculatethephaseangle2byusingtherealpowerequationatbus2(voltagecontrolled
bus).
c. Determine|V3|and3byusingboththerealandreactivepowerequationsatbus3(load
bus).ThisshouldbereadilysolvedinMathCAD;
AnswersareV3=0.9723perunitand3=15.1.
d. Findtherealpowergeneratedatbus1(swingbus).
e. Evaluatethetotalrealpowerlossesinthesystem.
3. (6.30)Determinethebusadmittancematrix(Ybus)forthefollowingpowerthreephasesystem
(Figure6.18,Table6.9).Notethatsomeofthevalueshavealreadybeendeterminedforyou
(Table6.10).Assumeathreephase100MVAperunitbase.
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Table6.9
Bus Bus
Rpu
Xpu
Bpu
1
2
0.02
0.06
0.06
1
3
0.08
0.24
0.05
2
3
0.06
0.18
0.04
2
4
0.08
0.24
0.05
2
5
0.02
0.06
0.02
3
4
0.01
0.04
0.01
4
5
0.03
0.1
0.04
Table6.10
6.25j18.695 5+j15.00
1.25+j3.75
0
0
5+j15.00
4. (6.43)Forathreebuspowersystemassumebus1istheswingwithaperunitvoltageof1.0at
zerodegrees,bus2isaPQbuswithaperunitloadof2.0+j0.5,andbus3isaPVbuswith1.0
perunitgenerationanda1.0voltagesetpoint.Theperunitlineimpedancesarej0.1between
buses1and2,j0.4betweenbuses1and3,andj0.2betweenbuses2and3.Usingaflatstart,
usetheNewtonRaphsonapproachtodeterminethefirstiterationphasorvoltagesatbuses2
and3.
5. ForProblem4,determinetheseconditerationvoltagesatbuses2and3.
6. (6.45reduced)LoadPowersimulatorcaseExample6.11.RunoneiterationusingtheSingle
Solutionoption.Printoutthesystemonelinediagramafteroneiteration.SeeFigure6.4on
page338ofthetextbookfortheanswertothisproblem.Thepurposeofthisproblemismerely
togettheSimulatorloadedandoperating.Wewillusethesimulatorforotherproblemsonthe
nexthomeworkset.