Power systems signal processing for smart grids

 Content: About the Authors xiii Preface xv  AccompanyingWebsite xxi  Acknowledgments xxiii  1 Introduction 1  1.1 Introduction 1  1.2 The Future Grid 2  1.3 Motivation and Objectives 3  1.4 Signal Processing Framework 4  1.5 Conclusions 8  References 10  2 Power Systems and Signal Processing 11  2.1 Introduction 11  2.2 Dynamic Overvoltage 12  2.2.1 Sustained Overvoltage 12  2.2.2 Lightning Surge 13  2.2.3 Switching Surges 15  2.2.4 Switching of Capacitor Banks 17  2.3 Fault Current and DC Component 21  2.4 Voltage Sags and Voltage Swells 25  2.5 Voltage Fluctuations 27  2.6 Voltage and Current Imbalance 29  2.7 Harmonics and Interharmonics 29  2.8 Inrush Current in Power Transformers 42  2.9 Over-Excitation of Transformers 45  2.10 Transients in Instrument Transformers 47  2.10.1 Current Transformer (CT) Saturation (Protection Services) 47  2.10.2 Capacitive Voltage Transformer (CVT) Transients 54  2.11 Ferroresonance 55  2.12 Frequency Variation 56  2.13 Other Kinds of Phenomena and their Signals 56  2.14 Conclusions 57  References 58  3 Transducers and Acquisition Systems 59  3.1 Introduction 59  3.2 Voltage Transformers (VTs) 60  3.3 Capacitor Voltage Transformers 64  3.4 Current Transformers 67  3.5 Non-Conventional Transducers 71  3.5.1 Resistive Voltage Divider 71  3.5.2 Optical Voltage Transducer 72  3.5.3 Rogowski Coil 73  3.5.4 Optical Current Transducer 74  3.6 Analog-to-Digital Conversion Processing 75  3.6.1 Supervision and Control 78  3.6.2 Protection 79  3.6.3 Power Quality 79  3.7 Mathematical Model for Noise 80  3.8 Sampling and the Anti-Aliasing Filtering 81  3.9 Sampling Rate for Power System Application 84  3.10 Smart-Grid Context and Conclusions 84  References 85  4 Discrete Transforms 87  4.1 Introduction 87  4.2 Representation of Periodic Signals using Fourier Series 87  4.2.1 Computation of Series Coefficients 90  4.2.2 The Exponential Fourier Series 92  4.2.3 Relationship between the Exponential and Trigonometric oefficients 93  4.2.4 Harmonics in Power Systems 95  4.2.5 Proprieties of a Fourier Series 97  4.3 A Fourier Transform 98  4.3.1 Introduction and Examples 98  4.3.2 Fourier Transform Properties 103  4.4 The Sampling Theorem 104  4.5 The Discrete-Time Fourier Transform 108  4.5.1 DTFT Pairs 109  4.5.2 Properties of DTFT 110  4.6 The Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) 110  4.6.1 Sampling the Fourier Transform 116  4.6.2 Discrete Fourier Transform Theorems 116  4.7 Recursive DFT 117  4.8 Filtering Interpretation of DFT 120  4.8.1 Frequency Response of DFT Filter 123  4.8.2 Asynchronous Sampling 124  4.9 The z-Transform 126  4.9.1 Rational z-Transforms 128  4.9.2 Stability of Rational Transfer Function 131  4.9.3 Some Common z-Transform Pairs 131  4.9.4 z-Transform Properties 133  4.10 Conclusions 133  References 133  5 Basic Power Systems Signal Processing 135  5.1 Introduction 135  5.2 Linear and Time-Invariant Systems 135  5.2.1 Frequency Response of LTI System 138  5.2.2 Linear Phase FIR Filter 140  5.3 Basic Digital System and Power System Applications 142  5.3.1 Moving Average Systems: Application 142  5.3.2 RMS Estimation 144  5.3.3 Trapezoidal Integration and Bilinear Transform 146  5.3.4 Differentiators Filters: Application 148  5.3.5 Simple Differentiator 151  5.4 Parametric Filters in Power System Applications 153  5.4.1 Filter Specification 154  5.4.2 First-Order Low-Pass Filter 155  5.4.3 First-Order High-Pass Filter 155  5.4.4 Bandstop IIR Digital Filter (The Notch Filter) 156  5.4.5 Total Harmonic Distortion in Time Domain (THD) 159  5.4.6 Signal Decomposition using a Notch Filter 161  5.5 Parametric Notch FIR Filters 161  5.6 Filter Design using MATLAB1 (FIR and IIR) 163  5.7 Sine and Cosine FIR Filters 163  5.8 Smart-Grid Context and Conclusions 165  References 166  6 Multirate Systems and Sampling Alterations 167  6.1 Introduction 167  6.2 Basic Blocks for Sampling Rate Alteration 167  6.2.1 Frequency Domain Interpretation 168  6.2.2 Up-Sampling in Frequency Domain 169  6.2.3 Down-Sampling in Frequency Domain 169  6.3 The Interpolator 170  6.3.1 The Input--Output Relation for the Interpolator 172  6.3.2 Multirate System as a Time-Varying System and Nobles Identities 172  6.4 The Decimator 174  6.4.1 Introduction 174  6.4.2 The Input--Output Relation for the Decimator 174  6.5 Fractional Sampling Rate Alteration 175  6.5.1 Resampling Using MATLAB1 175  6.6 Real-Time Sampling Rate Alteration 176  6.6.1 Spline Interpolation 177  6.6.2 Cubic B-Spline Interpolation 180  6.7 Conclusions 184  References 184  7 Estimation of Electrical Parameters 185  7.1 Introduction 185  7.2 Estimation Theory 185  7.3 Least-Squares Estimator 187  7.3.1 Linear Least-Squares 188  7.4 Frequency Estimation 191  7.4.1 Frequency Estimation Based on Zero Crossing (IEC61000-4-30) 192  7.4.2 Short-Term Frequency Estimator Based on Zero Crossing 195  7.4.3 Frequency Estimation Based on Phasor Rotation 198  7.4.4 Varying the DFT Window Size 200  7.4.5 Frequency Estimation Based on LSE 201  7.4.6 IIR Notch Filter 203  7.4.7 Small Coefficient and/or Small Arithmetic Errors 203  7.5 Phasor Estimation 205  7.5.1 Introduction 205  7.5.2 The PLL Structure 207  7.5.3 Kalman Filter Estimation 209  7.5.4 Example of Phasor Estimation using Kalman Filter 211  7.6 Phasor Estimation in Presence of DC Component 212  7.6.1 Mathematical Model for the Signal in Presence of DC Decaying 213  7.6.2 Mimic Method 214  7.6.3 Least-Squares Estimator (LSE) 215  7.6.4 Improved DTFT Estimation Method 216  7.7 Conclusions 224  References 224  8 Spectral Estimation 227  8.1 Introduction 227  8.2 Spectrum Estimation 227  8.2.1 Understanding Spectral Leakage 229  8.2.2 Interpolation in Frequency Domain: Single-Tone Signal 232  8.3 Windows 236  8.3.1 Frequency-Domain Windowing 236  8.4 Interpolation in Frequency Domain: Multitone Signal 240  8.5 Interharmonics 243  8.5.1 Typical Interhamonic Sources 246  8.5.2 The IEC Standard 61000-4-7 247  8.6 Interharmonic Detection and Estimation Based on IEC Standard 250  8.7 Parametric Methods for Spectral Estimation 254  8.7.1 Prony Method 254  8.7.2 Signal and Noise Subspace Techniques 262  8.8 Conclusions 269  References 270  9 Time-Frequency Signal Decomposition 271  9.1 Introduction 271  9.2 Short-Time Fourier Transform 274  9.2.1 Filter Banks Interpretation 274  9.2.2 Choosing the Window: Uncertainty Principle 276  9.2.3 The Time-Frequency Grid 279  9.3 Sliding Window DFT 280  9.3.1 Sliding Window DFT: Modified Structure 282  9.3.2 Power System Application 282  9.4 Filter Banks 284  9.4.1 Two-Channel Quadrature-Mirror Filter Bank 288  9.4.2 An Alias-Free Realization 290  9.4.3 A PR Condition 290  9.4.4 Finding the Filters from P(z) 292  9.4.5 General Filter Banks 294  9.4.6 Harmonic Decomposition Using PR Filter Banks 295  9.4.7 The Sampling Frequency 298  9.4.8 Extracting Even Harmonics 298  9.4.9 The Synthesis Filter Banks 300  9.5 Wavelet 300  9.5.1 Continuous Wavelet Transform 301  9.5.2 The Inverse Continuous Wavelet Transform 305  9.5.3 Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) 305  9.5.4 The Inverse Discrete Wavelet Transform 308  9.5.5 Discrete-Time Wavelet Transform 308  9.5.6 Design Issues in Wavelet Transform 313  9.5.7 Power System Application of Wavelet Transform 316  9.5.8 Real-Time Wavelet Implementation 318  9.6 Conclusions 319  References 319  10 Pattern Recognition 321  10.1 Introduction 321  10.2 The Basics of Pattern Recognition 322  10.2.1 Datasets 323  10.2.2 Supervised and Unsupervised Learning 323  10.3 Bayes Decision Theory 323  10.4 Feature Extraction on the Power Signal 324  10.4.1 Effective Value (RMS) 324  10.4.2 Discrete Fourier Transform 325  10.4.3 Wavelet Transform 325  10.4.4 Cumulants of Higher-Order Statistics 325  10.4.5 Principal Component Analysis 326  10.4.6 Normalization 327  10.4.7 Feature Selection 328  10.5 Classifiers 329  10.5.1 Minimum Distance Classifiers 329  10.5.2 Nearest Neighbor Classifier 329  10.5.3 The Perceptron 330  10.5.4 Least-Squares Methods 334  10.5.5 Multilayer Perceptron 337  10.5.6 Support Vector Machines 342  10.6 System Evaluation 348  10.6.1 Estimation of the Classification Error Probability 349  10.6.2Limited-Size Dataset 350  10.7 Pattern Recognition Examples in Power Systems 350  10.7.1 Power Quality Disturbance Classification 350  10.7.2 Load Forecasting in Electric Power Systems 351  10.7.3 Power System Security Assessment 353  10.8 Conclusions 353  References 353  11 Detection 355  11.1 Introduction 355  11.2 Why Signal Detection for Electric Power Systems? 355  11.3 Detection Theory Basics 356  11.3.1 Detection on the Bayesian Framework 356  11.3.2 Newman-Pearson Criterion 357  11.3.3 Receiving Operating Characteristics 358  11.3.4 Deterministic Signal Detection in White Gaussian Noise 358  11.3.5 Deterministic Signals with Unknown Parameters 363  11.4 Detection of Disturbances in Power Systems 368  11.4.1 The Power System Signal 368  11.4.2 Optimal Detection 369  11.4.3 Feature Extraction 370  11.4.4 Commonly Used Detection Algorithms 370  11.5 Examples 371  11.5.1 Transmission Lines Protection 371  11.5.2 Detection Algorithms Based on Estimation 373  11.5.3 Saturation Detection in Current Transformers 377  11.6 Smart-Grid Context and Conclusions 380  References 381  12 Wavelets Applied to Power Fluctuations 383  12.1 Introduction 383  12.2 Basic Theory 384  12.3 Application of Wavelets for Time-Varying Generation and Load Profiles 385  12.3.1 Fluctuation Analyses with FFT 385  12.3.2 Methodology 386  12.3.3 Load Fluctuations 387  12.3.4 Wind Farm Generation Fluctuations 389  12.3.5 Smart Microgrid 390  12.4 Conclusions 392  References 392  13 Time-Varying Harmonic and Asymmetry Unbalances 395  13.1 Introduction 395  13.2 Sequence Component Computation 396  13.3 Time-Varying Unbalance and Harmonic Frequencies 397  13.4 Computation of Time-Varying Unbalances and Asymmetries at Harmonic Frequencies 398  13.5 Examples 401  13.5.1 Inrush Current 401  13.5.2 Voltage Sag 404  13.5.3 Unbalance in Converters 407  13.6 Conclusions 410  References 411  Index 413
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              Featuring articles from a host of researchers from various areas of expertise,  Power Systems Signal Processing  presents a complete evaluation of spectral, probabilistic, time-frequency, and alternative methods applied to the analysis of time-varying waveform and harmonic distortions in power systems.                 Read more...