Abstract

Controlling thermal power systems increases the overall system efficiency and satisfies the desired requirements. In such a large system, fuel reduction of even a small percentage leads to large energy saving. Hence, power systems are gaining significant attention from engineers and scientists.

In this thesis, the uncontrolled power system for single area, two area, and three area is modelled using state space representation. Frequency deviation is simulated using MATLAB and SIMULINK. PID control is added to the system to analyze the effect of conventional control on system output response. Adaptive fuzzy logic control is added to the uncontrolled system using MATLAB Fuzzy Inference System and its effect on the system output response is measured in terms of overshoot/undershoot percentage, settling time, and steady state frequency error. Effect of adaptive fuzzy logic control is analyzed on single area, two area, and three area power system. Tie-line power exchange among areas is investigated before and after implementation of PID and adaptive fuzzy logic control.

For the purpose of comparison in this thesis, a conventional PID control and an adaptive fuzzy logic control is applied to two different thermal power systems. The simulations demonstrate that adaptive fuzzy logic control is proved to be more efficient and reliable than conventional PID control in power system control problem.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Steam power plants--Automatic control; PID controllers; Fuzzy logic

Publication Date

9-2017

Document Type

Thesis

Student Type

Graduate

Degree Name

Electrical Engineering (MS)

Department, Program, or Center

Electrical Engineering (KGCOE)

Advisor

Abdulla Ismail

Advisor/Committee Member

Ziad El Khatib

Advisor/Committee Member

Rouba Borghol

Campus

RIT Dubai

Plan Codes

EEEE-MS

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