New techniques incorporating computational intelligence based for voltage stability evaluation and improvement in power system / Nur Fadilah Ab Aziz

Recently, there are still many cases of voltage collapse incidents occur all around the world. This is due to the reason that most power systems today are being operated very close to their stability limits because of the exponentially growing demands, the desires to obtain maximum economic benefits and environmental constraints. Therefore, this thesis presents novel techniques for voltage stability evaluation and enhancement in power system. Firstly, a new bus voltage stability index named as Voltage Stability Condition Indicator (VSCI) was developed. The competency of VSCI was corroborated in three tasks; weak bus identification, automatic line outage contingency ranking and weak area identification. In addition, a new method to detect weak areas in a system termed as Weak Area Clustering Margin (WACM) was also developed. In the first part of study, all methods were tested on IEEE 30-bus and IEEE 118-bus test system. Secondly, a new voltage stability prediction technique utilising state of the art machine learning, Support Vector Machine (SVM) was developed.