Educator's Corner
PowerWorld Simulator is ideally suited for teaching power systems
operations and analysis and for performing research. In fact, the
original version of the Simulator software was built as a tool for
teaching power systems and presenting power systems analysis results to
technical and non-technical audiences alike. Since that time,
Simulator has evolved into the highly powerful power systems analysis and
visualization platform that it is today.
Simulator has been, and continues to be, used effectively in
undergraduate and graduate level classes in power systems operation,
control, and analysis. Concepts are presented simply, yet the
software has sufficient detail to challenge advanced engineering students.
Simulator features especially well suited to teaching power systems
concepts include:
- Access to the power flow Jacobian and bus admittance matrix data
- Full AC and/or DC solutions
- Step through the solution process one iteration at a time
- PTDF, GSF, TLR, LODF, flow, voltage, and loss sensitivities
- Balanced and unbalanced fault analysis
- Automatic equivalent system creation
- Optimization and Security routines
- Difference flows tool (allows you to set a reference case for
comparison studies)
- Time Step Simulation allows you to simulate the evolution of a
system over time
- and many others...
This page is devoted to assisting educators in
formulating problems for students to solve using the PowerWorld Simulator
and to providing all interested people a glimpse of the potential of
PowerWorld products in illustrating important concepts of power system
operation. All of the example problems presented on this page can be
performed using the free PowerWorld
Simulator - Evaluation/Education Edition, which allows you to perform
analysis on systems
containing up to 12 buses, and includes most optional Simulator add-ons (ATC,
OPF, SCOPF,
and our PV/QV Curve Tool).
Please explore the links at the left to learn more about the
capabilities and potential uses of PowerWorld Simulator.
Example Problems
- Five Bus Homework Assignment
- Three Area System w/ Line Overloads
- Basic Introduction to B3Flat System
- More Advanced Work with B3 Flat
System
- Implication of Interarea
Transactions with B7Flat System
- Low Cost Operation of B7Flat System
Example Cases
- Six bus case from "Power
Generation, Operation and Control" by Allen J. Wood, Bruce F. Wollenberg,
John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1996 (Thanks to Prof. Benjamin Jeyasurya of
Memorial University of Newfoundland for this case).
We would
certainly welcome any other example problems that you would like to
contribute to this page. Please direct all such suggestions, as well as
any questions, to Professor Tom Overbye at overbye@powerworld.com.
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