Small signal stability constrained optimal power flow model based on trajectory optimization

The essence of traditional power system’s small signal stability analysis model using the eigenvalue analysis method is to analyze the time-invariant system obtained after the approximate linearization of the system, because it only considers the equilibrium state and therefore cannot consider the power system nonlinearity. In contrast, time-domain simulation can fully consider the system nonlinearity from the whole small signal dynamic period, because it considers not only the equilibrium state but also the state after the equilibrium point. On the basis of the time-domain simulation idea, this paper proposes an SSSC-OPF (small signal stability constrained-optimal power flow) based on optimizing the rotor angle trajectory. The objective function and the SSS constraint (small signal stability constraint) of the model are extracted from rotor angle curves of each generator, and the system stability is ensured by both in concert. Compared with the general SSSC-OPF model using the SSS constraint based on the eigenvalues, the proposed model can consider nonlinearity while avoiding the errors caused by the approximate linearization in the general SSSC-OPF model, and has a higher degree of generalizability. Finally, this paper performs the simulations in three test systems, the IEEE 9-bus test system, the IEEE 39-bus test system, and the IEEE 118-bus test system, and verifies the proposed model’s effectiveness by comparing the simulation results