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A. Steady State Stability

Power system stability refers to a system's ability to return to steady state following disturbances. It is categorized into steady state, transient, and dynamic stability. Steady state stability involves small, gradual changes and ensures voltages and phase angles remain within limits. Transient stability studies whether the system remains synchronized following major events like faults, by examining rotor angle changes. Dynamic stability investigates stability under continuous small disturbances from random load and generation fluctuations.

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A. Steady State Stability

Power system stability refers to a system's ability to return to steady state following disturbances. It is categorized into steady state, transient, and dynamic stability. Steady state stability involves small, gradual changes and ensures voltages and phase angles remain within limits. Transient stability studies whether the system remains synchronized following major events like faults, by examining rotor angle changes. Dynamic stability investigates stability under continuous small disturbances from random load and generation fluctuations.

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V.

STABILITY
The stability of a system refers to the ability of a system to return back to its steady
state when subjected to a disturbance. As mentioned before, power is
generated by synchronous generators that operate in synchronism with the
rest of the system. A generator is synchronized with a bus when both of them
have same frequency, voltage and phase sequence. We can thus define the
power system stability as the ability of the power system to return to
steady state without losing synchronism. Usually power system stability is
categorized into Steady State, Transient and Dynamic Stability.

A. Steady State Stability


Studies are restricted to small and gradual changes in the system operating
conditions. In this we basically concentrate on restricting the bus voltages close
to their nominal values. We also ensure that phase angles between two buses are
not too large and check for the overloading of the power equipment and
transmission lines. These checks are usually done using power flow studies.
B.Transient Stability:
Involves the study of the power system following a major disturbance.
Following a large disturbance the synchronous alternator the machine power
(load) angle changes due to sudden acceleration of the rotor shaft. The
objective of the transient stability study is to ascertain whether the load
angle returns to a steady value following the clearance of the disturbance.
Aim of transient Stability study
Transient stability studies are aimed at determining whether the system will
remain in synchronism following major
disturbances such as transmission system faults, sudden load changes, loss of
generating units or line switching.There are
so many factors which influence transient stability studies. The most predominant
factors are listed below.
1. Types of fault
2. Location of fault.

3. Severity of fault
4. Speed of clearing of fault.
C. Dynamic stability:
The ability of a power system to maintain stability under continuous small
disturbances is investigated under the name of Dynamic Stability (also known as
small-signal stability). These small disturbances occur due random fluctuations in
loads and generation levels. In an interconnected power system, these random
variations can lead catastrophic failure as this may force the rotor angle to increase
steadily.

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