Online Identification of Power System Equivalent Inertia Constant

This paper proposes a closed-loop identification method to estimate the equivalent inertia constant of a power system at the connection bus. A microperturbation is first performed with a well-designed multisine signal probed through any power electronic devices in the internal system. Then, responses of frequency and active power measured by the phase measurement unit at the connection bus are used for the closed-loop identification. Compared to the conventional transient signal based method, the proposed method has simple implementation and minimum impacts on the system security, and thus could be carried out in real-time to identify the time-varying and nonlinear equivalent inertia constant in modern power systems with complex heterogeneous components. The effectiveness of the proposed method is validated in an 8-generator 36-bus simulation system and an actual power system.