Nuclear plant requirements during power system restoration

Adibi, M. M.; Adsunski, G.; Jenkins, R. T.; Gill, Peter

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“…BS is the procedure to restore the electrical network from a total or partial shutdown without relying on the external transmission network [16]. Conventional BS service providers are hydroelectric power plants and thermal power plants provided by SG sets, larger gas turbines, or aero-derivative gas turbine generators [17][18][19][20][21][22]. These are characterized by long start-up times, which may delay the restoration process.…”

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Offshore Wind Farm Black Start Service Integration: Review and Outlook of Ongoing Research

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A review of the ongoing research on black start (BS) service integrated with offshore wind farms (OWFs) is presented in this paper. The overall goal is to firstly gain a better understanding of the BS capabilities required by modern power systems. Subsequently, the challenges faced by OWFs as novel BS service providers as well as an outlook on the ongoing research which may provide solutions to these are presented. OWFs have the potential to be a fast and environmentally friendly technology to provide BS services for power system restoration and, therefore, to ensure resiliency after blackouts. As a power electronic-based system, OWFs can be equipped with a self-starter in the system in order to perform BS. The self-start unit could be a synchronous generator (SG) or a power electronic unit such as a grid-forming (GFM) converter. Preliminary BS studies performed in PSCAD/EMTDC are presented in a simplified OWF system via an SG as the self-start unit. Consequently, technical challenges during the BS procedure in an OWF benchmark system are outlined via theoretical discussions and simulations results. This is useful to understand the threats to power electronics during BS. Finally, the most relevant GFM strategies in the state-of-the-art literature are presented and their application to OWF BS is discussed.

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Offshore Wind Farm Black Start Service Integration: Review and Outlook of Ongoing Research

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“…The answer from decades of operational experience is clear. Adibi et al 25 provided an analysis of NPP requirements during power system restoration as an activity of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Power System Restoration Working Group in 1995. Adibi and Fink 26 integrate some of the conclusions of Adibe et al into a broader discussion of postblackout Grid restoration procedures.…”

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Are Current U.S. Nuclear Power Plants Grid Resilience Assets?

Greene¹

2018

Nuclear Technology

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-This paper examines the concept of Grid resilience in the context of the North American electricity supply system and the role existing (Generation II) light water-cooled nuclear power plants (NPPs) play in enabling and enhancing Grid resilience. (Because of similarities in technology and plant design, it is likely that most of the discussion in the paper is also relevant to Generation III and Generation III+ light water NPP designs. The applicability of the analysis to Canadian CANDU and Russian VVER technology has not been assessed.) The paper asks and answers three compound questions: (1) what is Grid resilience, and what is a resilient Grid? (2) what is a resilient nuclear power plant (rNPP), and what are the basic functional requirements of rNPPs? and in light of the answers to these questions, (3) are today's U.S. NPPs significant Grid resilience assets? The conclusion reached is that existing U.S. commercial NPPs are safe and efficient capacity, energy, and reliability assets and they have demonstrated some Grid resilience benefit during regional weather events. However, today's NPPs do not deliver the Grid resilience benefits nuclear power can and should provide the nation. The author argues that nuclear power's unique fuel security (an attribute that could allow NPPs to energize the Grid during extended periods in which fuel could not be delivered to other types of power plants) is a compelling reason to develop future rNPPs that would deliver strategic Grid resilience benefits in the face of evolving hazards and threats to the U.S. Grid.

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Power System Control Under Cascading Failures

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Nuclear plant requirements during power system restoration

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Offshore Wind Farm Black Start Service Integration: Review and Outlook of Ongoing Research

Are Current U.S. Nuclear Power Plants Grid Resilience Assets?

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