Lesson Learned from Power System Design with PowerWorld Simulator

Complexity design of power system is probably one of the reluctances for undergraduate or graduate students to attend power engineering courses. However, using simulation tools will attract and encourage students to have their own design and model as well as its analysis. This paper presents a protocol model of 10-bus system with PowerWorld simulator includes load flow and fault analysis as design verifications. To obtain a reliable model, the basic knowledge of power system components following specific criteria must be fulfilled in the selection of initial data. In the verification stage, the proposed model has been tested with load flow method in the normal and contingency operations, then fault analysis is followed to simulate the proposed model responses in both three-phase and single-phase to ground faults. The measured parameters in these stages are focused on the bus voltage magnitude and its phase angle as one of the reference indicators for the state of power system operation.