A combined cycle power plant, which combines a gas turbine and a steam turbine, can achieve high energy efficiency. Many combined cycle plants have been installed in the world. However, a large-scale blackout occurred in Malaysia in 1996. Combined cycle and gas turbine plants sequentially tripped out. The cause of this chain trip was thought to be a system frequency drop. Considering these backgrounds, it is important to study dynamic behavior of combined cycle plants. Several dynamic models of the combined cycle plant have been proposed. In our analysis, we use some of them and build a model for a single-shaft combined cycle plant. We execute numerical simulations to see how the combined cycle behaves when the system frequency drops. Index Terms-Combined cycle, dynamic models, gas turbine, plant trip-out, under frequency. Naoto Kakimoto (M'78) was born in 1952 in Japan. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1982. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at Kyoto University. His current interests are power system stabilities, power electronics devices, and distributed power generation. Dr. Kakimoto is a member of IEE of Japan. Kazuhiro Baba was born in 1978 in Japan. He received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 2002. His current interest is stability of combined cycle power plant. Mr. Baba is a member of IEE of Japan.

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