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The Royal Commission (RC) power system in The load impedance is the combined
Yanbu Industrial City is interconnected with SEC- impedance of the induction motors and
WR System. other load.
The dynamic model of SEC-WR system developed The load model used for simulation of the
previously in (PSS/E) package by PTI & SEC-WR problem of the slow voltage recovery after faults,
Engineers, was used as a starting point for this in the PSS/E package is the CIM5BL load model
study. [4]. This model can be used to model either
single cage or double cage induction motor. The
The dynamic models of the generators, exciter & motor is modeled in the power flow as a bus load.
governor of the steam generating units at Rabigh This model may be applied to an individual load
Power Plant concluded from the field tests and or a subsystem of loads. The model includes a
measurements carried out in the plant, have been relay that can be used to trip the motor for an
used in this study [6]. undervoltage condition. The per unit voltage
level is specified, for which the relay begins
3.3 System Voltage Delayed Recovery: timing. The time in cycles is specified, for
which the voltage must remain below threshold in
The voltage recovery problem is that of repeated order for the relay to trip. The breaker time delay
occurrences of sustained low voltage following is specified also. It is possible also to disable the
faults on the sub-transmission or distribution relay operations.
system. The problem occurs in hot summer high
load season where a large percentage of the peak
load consists of air conditioning motors.
The impact of this incident was so sever. Voltage Fig (4) below, shows the sever dip in the voltage.
instability led to the only available automatic under It shows the delayed voltage recovery. This cause
voltage load shedding of 117MW in Jeddah the under voltage load shedding of 253MW in 5
associated with the tripping of generating units substations in Jeddah, but still the voltage
over a wide range of system from Makkah Al- recovered to a level insufficient to reaccelerate the
Mukarramah Jeddah in South and Yanbu in the motors of the airconditioners which continued to
North of the interconnected system. stall and demanding high current from the system.
After 3.7 sec the GT4 of TPS, and after 4.7 sec the
isolation of Taif occurred due to the tripping of
the MSR-TPS 110 KV circuits, followed by
tripping of all gas turbines in TPS, leading to
complete black out in Taif Area.
A comparison between the actual voltage recorded
by the Dynamic System Monitor (DSM), and the
simulation of the voltage profile at TPS for the
incident is shown in Fig (5) below.
FSL SVC
The same fault is described in item 3.5 above, Fig. (8) : SVC Output in RDS (DSP) and FSL S/S
repeated for SEC-WR Load and Netrwork
configuration for the case of year 2005.