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Blackout Prevention Methodologies: A Burning Topic of Research
Abstract
Black out means complete shutdown of electrical network due to some circumstances. A large scale power failure or power outage for a certain amount of time happens due to blackout. Black out is a huge threat for power system engineers since it cause huge obstacle and financial losses in human life and utilities. So, blackout must be prevented for the welfare of human and society. Therefore, black out prevention methodologies is a burning topic of research now days. In this paper, a study has been carried out on blackout. Specially different blackout phenomena across the globe, the causes behind the blackout and different black out prevention methodologies and their advantages and disadvantages are discussed. Among the blackout prevention methodologies auto-load shedding scheme, intelligent islanding scheme and hybrid scheme are thoroughly studied. Importance of critical element protection is also discussed. The power world simulation diagrams with simulator version 18, under critical elements under contingency with an IEEE-14 bus test system are also shown in this context. Results of frequency fluctuations with graph also shown in the paper. Instead of using any single particular method, hybrid method is suggested for getting better blackout prevention result is suggested at the end with a hope that it will be useful for power system engineers.
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