Automated Critical Clearing Time calculation for analyzing faults at Entergy
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Kolluri, Sharma; Li, Mei; Lazo, Adrian; Yu, Peng; Vaiman, Michael; Vaiman, Marianna
- Source
- 2016 IEEE/PES Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition (T&D) Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition (T&D), 2016 IEEE/PES. :1-5 May, 2016
- Subject
- Engineering Profession
General Topics for Engineers
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Computational modeling
Generators
Power system stability
Load modeling
Stability analysis
Circuit faults
Time-domain analysis
Transient stability analysis
critical clearing time
time domain simulation
protection system
three-phase and unbalanced faults
- Language
- ISSN
- 2160-8563
This paper describes the implementation of Critical Clearing Time (CCT) software at Entergy for transient stability analysis. The software utilizes a fast time-domain simulation method to compute critical clearing time under different fault conditions. The framework presented in this paper allows for automated critical clearing time computations that eliminates manual time-consuming cut-and-try critical clearing time calculations. The paper discusses how automatic CCT computations are applied at Entergy for addressing various protection system concerns.