Visible to the public High performance computation tools for real-time security assessment

TitleHigh performance computation tools for real-time security assessment
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2014
AuthorsDel Rosso, A., Liang Min, Chaoyang Jing
Conference NamePES General Meeting | Conference Exposition, 2014 IEEE
Date PublishedJuly
KeywordsAdams-Bashforth-Moulton predictor-corrector method, computation tools, computer software, computing machine, contingency analysis, CPU time, data visualisation, DE-OE0000628, decision making, dynamic simulation software, EPRI, ETMSP performance, extended transient midterm simulation program, hybrid measurement-based-simulation-based security-assessment tool, hybrid simulation-measurement-based tools, integration, MPI-based parallelization, operation security risk, phasor measurement, power engineering computing, power system, power system security, power system transient stability, power transmission control, predictor-corrector methods, SCADA, SCADA systems, SuperLU_MT library, U.S. Department of Energy grant
Abstract

This paper presents an overview of the research project "High-Performance Hybrid Simulation/Measurement-Based Tools for Proactive Operator Decision-Support", performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy grant DE-OE0000628. The objective of this project is to develop software tools to provide enhanced real-time situational awareness to support the decision making and system control actions of transmission operators. The integrated tool will combine high-performance dynamic simulation with synchrophasor measurement data to assess in real time system dynamic performance and operation security risk. The project includes: (i) The development of high-performance dynamic simulation software; (ii) the development of new computationally effective measurement-based tools to estimate operating margins of a power system in real time using measurement data from synchrophasors and SCADA; (iii) the development a hybrid framework integrating measurement-based and simulation-based approaches, and (iv) the use of cutting-edge visualization technology to display various system quantities and to visually process the results of the hybrid measurement-base/simulation-based security-assessment tool. Parallelization and high performance computing are utilized to enable ultrafast transient stability analysis that can be used in a real-time environment to quickly perform "what-if" simulations involving system dynamics phenomena. EPRI's Extended Transient Midterm Simulation Program (ETMSP) is modified and enhanced for this work. The contingency analysis is scaled for large-scale contingency analysis using MPI-based parallelization. Simulations of thousands of contingencies on a high performance computing machine are performed, and results show that parallelization over contingencies with MPI provides good scalability and computational gains. Different ways to reduce the I/O bottleneck have been also exprored. Thread-parallelization of the sparse linear solve is explored also through use of the SuperLU_MT library. Based on performance profiling results for the implicit method, the majority of CPU time is spent on the integration steps. Hence, in order to further improve the ETMSP performance, a variable time step control scheme for the original trapezoidal integration method has been developed and implemented. The Adams-Bashforth-Moulton predictor-corrector method was introduced and designed for ETMSP. Test results show superior performance with this method.

URLhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6939091/
DOI10.1109/PESGM.2014.6939091
Citation Key6939091