A Hybrid Identification Method for Subsynchronous Oscillation in Power Systems

Abstract

The increasing proportion of wind power integration in the power systems and the dynamic interaction of power electronic equipment lead to frequent subsynchronous oscillation, which seriously threatens the safety and stability of the system. Therefore, it is urgent to develop a high-precision and robust identification method. Traditional standalone identification methods are vulnerable to wind speed fluctuations and noise, resulting in unsatisfactory accuracy and robustness. To accurately extract the oscillation parameters from the active power signal, this paper proposes a hybrid method for identifying subsynchronous oscillation in power systems. First, the active power signal is preprocessed using the wavelet threshold denoising strategy, which effectively filters out noise through multi-scale decomposition and signal reconstruction. Second, VMD is applied to the preprocessed signal to decompose it into intrinsic mode functions, thereby achieving effective separation of different oscillatory characteristics. Finally, the fast Fourier transform is used to perform spectral analysis on each IMF to accurately capture the dominant frequency and amplitude of each oscillating component. On the four-machine two-area system with DFIG, the verification is carried out under the wind speeds of 9 m/s, 10.5 m/s and 12 m/s and the no noise, 60 dB and 40 dB noise conditions. SSO is excited by inserting 20 Hz, 30.5 Hz or 40 Hz subsynchronous oscillation components into the external part of the mechanical power input of the generator. The results show that the relative error of frequency identification of the proposed method is less than 0.0426% under all test conditions. The relative error of amplitude identification is less than 1.4155%. Compared with different methods, the proposed method exhibits excellent performance under noise conditions and has robustness to wind change and noise interference.