Application of ambient analysis techniques for the estimation of electromechanical oscillations from measured PMU data in four different power systems

European Transactions on Electrical Power

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1640-1656

  Vanfretti, Luigi ^a   Dosiek, Luke ^b   Pierre, John W ^b   Trudnowski, Daniel ^c   Chow, Joe H ^d   García Valle, Rodrigo ^e   Aliyu, Usman ^f  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^c MONTANA TECH OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^d RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^f ABUBAKAR TAFAWA BALEWA UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

application of signal processing techniques; power system identification; power system measurements; power system monitoring; power system oscillations; power system parameter estimation; small signal stability; synchronized phasor measurements

Indexed keywords

POWER SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION; POWER SYSTEM MEASUREMENTS; POWER SYSTEM MONITORING; POWER SYSTEM OSCILLATIONS; POWER SYSTEM PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; SMALL SIGNAL STABILITY; SYNCHRONIZED PHASOR MEASUREMENTS;

CIRCUIT OSCILLATIONS; ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHASE MEASUREMENT; POWER GENERATION; POWER TRANSMISSION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT;

MONITORING;

EID: 79957532902     PISSN: 1430144X     EISSN: 15463109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etep.507     Document Type: Article

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