NEURAL NETWORK FOR CONTINGENCY RANKING DYNAMIC SECURITY INDICES FOR USE UNDER FAULT CONDITIONS IN A POWER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM

Analysis and evaluation of outage effects on the dynamic security of power systems is made with a neural network using composite contingency severity indices. A preferably small number of indices describes the power system characteristics immediately post-contingency. These indices are then used as classifiers of the safety of the power system. Using the values of the severity indices, an artificial neural network distinguishes between safe, stable contingencies and potentially unstable contingencies. The severity of the contingency is evaluated based upon a relatively small fixed set of severity indices that are calculated based on a partial time domain simulation. Because a fixed set of severity indices is used, the size and architecture of the neural network is problem independent, thus permitting its use with large scale power systems. Further, the amount of required time domain simulation for the selection of the potentially harmful unstable contingencies is reduced by screening out benign, stable appearing contingencies. The network is trained off-line using training cases that concentrate around the security boundary to reduce the number of cases required to train the neural network.