Power System State Estimation Using Phasor Measurement Units
Ibrahim Omar Habiballah, محمد فراز سهتو
كلية الهندسة-جامعة الملك فهد للبترول والمعادن · السعودية
The power system is growing rapidly in complexity while decision making for systemoperator for such huge system is still a big concern. System real time view is presented tothe operator through the help of several sensors (current transformers, potentialtransformers, bus injection and line power flow meters, and latest introduced phasormeasurement units). Measurement devices can have errors due to telemeter noises andmalfunctioning or could be missing because of accidental isolation of part of powersystem. State estimator filters out these noises and estimates the correct system statevariables (Voltage magnitudes and angles). Since the advancement of smart grid moredata is available and requirement of system’s state estimation accuracy is raised. Relevantresearch is focused on improving the accuracy of estimator in presence of different typeof bad data measurements. Phasor measurement units (PMU) provide complex voltageand current with higher reliability and accuracy improving the performance of stateestimators. This thesis has considered only the availability of complex voltage readingfrom PMU measurements. The impact of incorporating PMU’s on state estimation isinvestigated using three estimators: Weighted Least Square (WLS), IterativelyReweighted Least Square (IRLS), and Least Absolute Value (LAV) using IRLS. Theperformance of incorporating PMU in state estimators is tested under different bad-datascenarios: single, multiple non-interacting, and multiple interacting bad data. Thexviiistandard 6-bus test system will be used for validation purposes. The proposed estimatorwill be then tested on the IEEE 14-bus, IEEE 30-bus systems.