IJSEA Volume 10 Issue 11

Modelling of Electric Grid to Enhance Generated Power Evacuation

Donald Eloebhose, Nelson Ogbogu
10.7753/IJSEA1011.1003
keywords : Power World Simulator, Afam, Short circuit analysis, load flow analysis, contingency analysis, transient analysis.

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The study of evacuation of power from the power plants in Rivers State Nigeria, connecting to the 330kV transmission network of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN). The Power World Simulator Educational version was used in the modelling and simulation of the electric power grid. The study of load flow analysis, short circuit, transient and N-1 contingency analysis and their effect on the 330 kV/132kV transmission bus connected to the existing power plants in Rivers State Nigeria namely; Rivers IPP (180MW), Afam III (265.6MW), Afam IV & V (351.00 MW) and Afam VI G. S (650.00 MW) was carried out. From the short circuit study, it is observed that when a bus is faulted with a 3-phase fault, the three-phase voltages of the system drastically become zero in all the phases. The other buses of the network experience an increase in voltage and all the buses fed have the same effect as the bus under fault, though the effect is felt more on the buses. However, with the introduction of substation splitting at Afam III and ongoing Afam IV substations, the short circuit level will be reduced by 15%; leading to improvement in the overall system stability.
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Title = "Modelling of Electric Grid to Enhance Generated Power Evacuation",
Journal ="International Journal of Science and Engineering Applications (IJSEA)",
Volume = "10",
Issue ="11",
Pages ="163 - 173",
Year = "2021",
Authors ="Donald Eloebhose, Nelson Ogbogu"}