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Electric power distribution systems of many commercial and industrial sites often employ variable frequency drives and other loads that internally utilize dc. Such loads are often based on front-end line-commutated rectifiers. The detailed switch-level models of such rectifier systems can be readily implemented using a number of widely available digital programs and transient simulation tools, including the Electromagnetic Transient (EMT)-based programs and Matlab/Simulink. To improve the simulation efficiency for the system-level transient studies with a large number of such subsystems, the so-called dynamic average models have been utilized. This paper presents the average-value modeling methodologies for the conventional three-phase (six-pulse) front-end rectifier loads. We demonstrate the system operation and the dynamic performance of the developed average models in discontinuous and continuous modes, as well as under balanced and unbalanced operation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This study presents a methodology for analysing the transient behaviour of harmonics associated with the interfacing of a synchronous generator and a transmission line. The algorithm is derived entirely in the dynamic harmonic domain that is based on an orthogonal basis and on operational matrices. The main characteristics of the proposed method are: its capability to accurately follow the harmonic content of a transient without the aid of a post-processing tool and its ability to serve as a visually active indicator of the steady-state and transient conditions in a signal. The proposed method is validated by comparing its results against those obtained through a time-domain technique. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Real-time testing of new and more sophisticated distributed resource interfaces during transients, representing the different physical parts (mechanical, thermal, hydraulic, chemical, electrical, electronics) of a nonconventional generator in a single platform, or analyzing the interactions of distribution systems with distributed generators, energy markets, and customer behaviors are scenarios that cannot be studied with current software packages. This paper analyzes the present status and discusses the future development of tools that could cope with these simulation challenges. This paper includes test cases that will illustrate the scope of some of these simulation tools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A fast and stable approach for the simulation of transformer nonlinearities during transient and unbalanced operating conditions is given. The proposed scheme implements separate magnetic and electric equivalent circuits. The solution of the transformer nonlinear mathematical model is carried out using the Newton-Raphson iterative method. Introducing the magnetic circuit nonlinearities into the model as either continuous or piecewise functions eliminated the difficulty of the Jacobian formation. The method was verified against experimental and computed results. The application of the Jacobian iterative method increased the stability and convergence of the solution as compared to a predictor corrector scheme. The proposed method was able to accurately simulate the transformer behaviour under switching and no-load conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes large-scale transient stability simulation based on the massively parallel architecture of multiple graphics processing units (GPUs). A robust and efficient instantaneous relaxation (IR)-based parallel processing technique which features implicit integration, full Newton iteration, and sparse LU-based linear solver is used to run the multiple GPUs simultaneously. This implementation highlights the combination of coarse-grained algorithm-level parallelism with fine-grained data-parallelism of the GPUs to accelerate large-scale transient stability simulation. Multithreaded parallel programming makes the entire implementation highly transparent, scalable, and efficient. Several large test systems are used for the simulation with a maximum size of 9,984 buses and 2,560 synchronous generators all modeled in detail resulting in matrices that are larger than 20\,000\times 20\,000. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]