C. Ucak et A. Pahwa, AN ANALYTICAL APPROACH FOR STEP-BY-STEP RESTORATION OF DISTRIBUTION-SYSTEMS FOLLOWING EXTENDED OUTAGES, IEEE transactions on power delivery, 9(3), 1994, pp. 1717-1723
Loss of diversity among loads may cause cold load pickup problems afte
r an extended outage in distribution systems. Thermostatically-control
led devices such as air-conditioners, heaters, heat pumps, water heate
rs etc. become the largest portion of load during restoration. In this
paper, an analytical approach for restoration of distribution systems
during cold load pickup is presented. A delayed exponential model is
used to represent the load during cold load pickup. A thermodynamic mo
del of transformers is used to determine the loading limits for this t
ype of load. Whenever loading limits are reached, sections are restore
d step-by-step. In step-by-step restoration, the sequence of sections
restored plays an important role in total restoration time. An optimal
restoration sequence of different sections of the distribution system
is determined for minimum total restoration time as well as minimum c
ustomer interruption duration.