INVESTIGATING THE SELECTION OF A SUITABLE SLACK BUS: A CASE STUDY OF THE MULTI-GENERATING STATIONS OF THE NIGERIAN 330-KV POWER SYSTEM NETWORK

Samuel, I. A. and Okwechime, Ngozi Marian and Abdulkareem, Ademola (2014) INVESTIGATING THE SELECTION OF A SUITABLE SLACK BUS: A CASE STUDY OF THE MULTI-GENERATING STATIONS OF THE NIGERIAN 330-KV POWER SYSTEM NETWORK. International Journal of Electrical Electronic Engineering Studies, 2 (1). pp. 1-12.

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Abstract

Slack bus is a bus with generating unit and used to balance the real power (P) and reactive power (Q) in the power system while performing load flow studies. This study therefore, investigated the best slack bus suitable to be used in the load flow study of the Nigerian 330-kVtransmission network with nine (9) generating stations. The method involve the load flow analysis of the existing network with Egbin, Shiroro and Kanji generating stations chosen as a slack bus at different instances and simulated using Newton-Rapson method and Gauss Seidel. This study revealed that the use of Egbin power station as a slack bus brought about the lowest power mismatch in the network. The result also indicated violation of voltages in some of the network and high reactive power loss

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Load flow, Slack bus, Grid, Matlab tool, Reactive power
Subjects:	T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
Divisions:	Faculty of Engineering, Science and Mathematics > School of Electronics and Computer Science
Depositing User:	Mrs Patricia Nwokealisi
Date Deposited:	21 Mar 2016 15:50
Last Modified:	21 Mar 2016 15:50
URI:	http://eprints.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/id/eprint/6498

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