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6 POWER SYSTEM STABILITY
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unstable equilibrium since Sf) is neg:tlive there. So, this point is not a v�tlid
operating point.
The changing position of the generator rotor swinging with respect to the
innite bus may be visualized by an analogy. Consider a pendulum swinging
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om a pivot on a stationary frame, as shown in Fig. 16.7(a). Points a and c are
the
maximum points of the oscillation of the pendulum about the equilibrium
point b. Damping will eventually bring the pendulum to rest at b. Now imagine
a disk rotating in a clockwise direction about the pivot of the pendulum, as
shown in Fig. 16.7(b), and superimpose the motion of the pendulum on the
motion of the disk. When the pendulum is moving from a to c, the combined
angular velocity is slower than that of the disk. When the pendulum is moving
from c to a, the combined angular velocity is faster than that of the disk. At
points a and c the angular velocity of the pendulum alone is zero and the
combined angular velocity equals that of the disk. If the angular veloci ty of
the disk corresponds to the synchronous speed of the rotor, and if the motion of
the pendulum alone represents the swinging of the rotor with respect to an
innite bus, the superimposed motion of the pe ndulum on that of the disk
represents the actual angular motion of the rotOL
From the above discussion we cone! ude that the solut ion of Eq. (] 6.48)
represents sinusoidal oscillations, provided the synchronizing power coefcien t
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p is positive. The angular frequency of the undamped oscillations is given by
(16.49)
which corresponds to a frequency of oscillation given by
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16.50)
Example 16.6. The machine of Example 16.3 is operating at 0 = 28.44° when it is
subjected to a slight temporary electrical system disturbance. Determ
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ne the