Autonomous state estimation and its application to the autonomous operation of the distribution system with distributed generations

• Main Author: Choi, Sungyun
• Other Authors: Meliopoulos, A. P. Sakis
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: Georgia Institute of Technology 2014
• Subjects: State estimation; Autonomous operation; Distribution systems; Automatic control; Electric power distribution
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1853/50250

The objective of this thesis is to propose guidelines for advanced operation, control, and protection of the restructured distribution system by designing the architecture and functionality for autonomous operation of the distribution system with DGs. The proposed architecture consists of (1) autonomous state estimation and (2) applications that enable autonomous operation; in particular, three applications are discussed: setting-less component protection, instant-by-instant management, and short-term operational planning. Key elements of the proposed approach have been verified: (1) the proposed autonomous state estimation has been experimentally tested using laboratory test systems and (2) the feasibility of the setting-less component protection has been tested with numerical simulations.