Stability of frequency regulation of pumped-storage plants with multiple units sharing common penstock and busbar

Asian Working Group- IAHR's Symposium on Hydraulic Machinery and Systems

Tang, Renbo^1 ; Yang, Jiandong^1 ; Yang, Weijia^1,2

State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan

430072, China^1

Division of Electricity, Department of Engineering Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala

SE-751 21, Sweden^2

关键词: Analysis and simulation;    Electrical coupling;    Frequency regulations;    Linear time invariant model;    Method of characteristics;    Operating stability;    Pumped storage plants;    Pumped-storage units;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/163/1/012094/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/163/1/012094

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Nowadays the frequency regulation of pumped-storage units becomes more and more important, due to the more complex structure of the grid and greater proportion of the renewable intermittent sources. The aim of this paper is to investigate the stability of pumped-storage plants (PSPs), and the subject of study is PSPs with surge tanks, shared water conduits and a common busbar. Firstly, the equations of each component in the system are deduced and simplified, to establish a linear time-invariant model by adopting the simplified transfer function (STF). A real Chinese PSP is taken as the engineering instance of this work, and simulation results of the STF model are validated with results of on-site measurements and computations based on the method of characteristics (MOC). Then, through both theoretical analysis and simulations, operating stability of the PSP system is studied under various islanded operating cases to reveal the influence of the hydraulic coupling and the electrical coupling. The results demonstrate the significant influence of the governor control modes and the parameter settings on stability of frequency regulation of the PSP. Suggestions of control strategy are also obtained.