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Simulation time of Doing Power Flow Cyclically

Hello everyone,

I met a time issue when doing the power flow cyclically. I use python 2.7.13 (in VS Code) to control PSS/E executing the power flow process cyclically and export the overloading report. During testing, I read the csv file of branch and set each branch out-of-service in each run.The number of branch is 1790, and I set executing the process for 12 times (which means "half a day"). Thus, I expect that it will export (12*1790) overloading reports and tell me which branches out-of-service will cause other branches overloading.

Then, I find that it takes for over 18 hours to complete the entire 12 times simulation. In first run, it took around 5 mins, then second run took 7 mins, and the simulation time in each run is irregularly and extremely increasing. The followings are the simulation time in per run (min): [4.454, 6.7685, 13.7459, 25.1792, 39.6676, 59.3887, 85.0343, 112.3582, 143.5624, 178.5427, 205.1365, 219.4923]

Since each run do the same work (csv file is same to verify each run gives the same results), I could not figure out the problem during simulation: 1) why each run took different time to export the report, and 2) the time is extremely increasing? Does anyone meet this problem before? and know the reason?

Simulation time of Doing Power Flow Cyclically

Hello everyone,

I met a time issue when doing the power flow cyclically. I use python 2.7.13 (in VS Code) to control PSS/E executing the power flow process cyclically and export the overloading report. During testing, I read the csv file of branch and set each branch out-of-service in each run.The number of branch is 1790, and I set executing the process for 12 times (which means "half a day"). Thus, I expect that it will export (12*1790) overloading reports and tell me which branches out-of-service will cause other branches overloading.

Then, I find that it takes for over 18 hours to complete the entire 12 times simulation. In first run, it took around 5 mins, then second run took 7 mins, and the simulation time in each run is irregularly and extremely increasing. The followings are the simulation time in per run (min): [4.454, 6.7685, 13.7459, 25.1792, 39.6676, 59.3887, 85.0343, 112.3582, 143.5624, 178.5427, 205.1365, 219.4923]

Since each run do the same work (csv file is same to verify each run gives the same results), I could not figure out the problem during simulation: 1) why each run took different time to export the report, and 2) the time is extremely increasing? Does anyone meet this problem before? and know the reason?