TY - GEN
T1 - Impact of a surface nuclear blast on the transient stability of the power system
AU - Barrett, Christopher L.
AU - Centeno, Virgilio
AU - Eubank, Stephen
AU - Evrenosoğlu, Cansin Yaman
AU - Marathe, Achla
AU - Marathe, Madhav V.
AU - Mishra, Chetan
AU - Mortveit, Henning
AU - Pal, Anamitra
AU - Phadke, Arun
AU - Thorp, James
AU - Vullikanti, Anil
AU - Youssef, Mina
N1 - Funding Information:
Authors thank members of the Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory for their helpful suggestions and comments. This work has been partially supported by DTRA Grant HDTRA1-11-1-0016, DTRA CNIMS Contract HDTRA1-11-D-0016-0001, NSF ICES Grant CCF-1216000, NSF NetSE Grant CNS-1011769 and DOE Grant DE-SC0003957. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NSF, DOE and DoD DTRA.
Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - In this chapter, we study the consequences of an improvised nuclear detonation (IND) to the sub-transmission and distribution systems of Washington D.C. in the Eastern Interconnection (EI). We briefly discuss the geographical location of the blast and the interconnection of the power utility serving this area, with the neighboring power utilities. Analysis of the grid with respect to steady state stability as well as transient stability is performed to understand the impact of loss in load as a result of the blast. The steady state analysis alone does not offer a complete understanding of the loss of the neighboring substations. The transient stability analysis shows that for the simulated event, the system stabilizes approximately 7 s after the occurrence of the event. The stability of the system can be attributed to the fact that the drop in load was relatively small compared to the generation capacity of the EI.
AB - In this chapter, we study the consequences of an improvised nuclear detonation (IND) to the sub-transmission and distribution systems of Washington D.C. in the Eastern Interconnection (EI). We briefly discuss the geographical location of the blast and the interconnection of the power utility serving this area, with the neighboring power utilities. Analysis of the grid with respect to steady state stability as well as transient stability is performed to understand the impact of loss in load as a result of the blast. The steady state analysis alone does not offer a complete understanding of the loss of the neighboring substations. The transient stability analysis shows that for the simulated event, the system stabilizes approximately 7 s after the occurrence of the event. The stability of the system can be attributed to the fact that the drop in load was relatively small compared to the generation capacity of the EI.
KW - Eastern interconnection
KW - Improvised nuclear detonation
KW - Stability analysis
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-31664-2_16
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-31664-2_16
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84962420952
SN - 9783319316635
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 153
EP - 158
BT - Critical Information Infrastructures Security - 9th International Conference, CRITIS 2014, Revised Selected Papers
A2 - Panayiotou, Christos G.
A2 - Ellinas, Georgios
A2 - Kyriakides, Elias
A2 - Polycarpou, Marios M.
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 9th International Conference on Critical Information Infrastructures Security, CRITIS 2014
Y2 - 13 October 2014 through 15 October 2014
ER -