A simulation study of OBDD-based proper splitting strategies for power systems under consideration of transient stability

System splitting, also called controlled system islanding, can effectively prevent blackouts. Following the OBDD-based three-phase method given in for proper splitting strategies, which satisfy necessary steady-state constraints, This work studies the feasibility of the proper splitting strategies by means of power system transient simulations on the IEEE 118-bus system. Simulation results show that a considerable proportion of proper splitting strategies can successfully split the power system into stable islands. Furthermore, considering a general knowledge that a controlled power system can easily maintain its stability after a small disturbance, This work presents "threshold value constraint" to restrict the degrees of the disturbances caused by proper splitting strategies. An approach is proposed to select threshold values for the constraint. Further simulation results show that by checking the constraint for proper splitting strategies, feasible splitting strategies can be found, which can successfully split the system into islands satisfying transient stability constraints.