Damped Nyquist Plot for a pole placement design of power system stabilizers

•Novel method for the design of power system stabilizers.•General method for sequential design of multiple PSSs in multiple scenarios.•The method is graphical and used together with new formulas for phase compensation.•Didactical results showing detailed application of the proposed methodology.•Real-life test system of the Brazilian Interconnected Power System. This paper proposes a new frequency domain control design method through the use of a modified Nyquist diagram with an embedded partial pole-placement capability. The proposed Damped Nyquist Plot (DNP) method evaluates the open loop transfer function (OLTF) along a line of constant damping ratio to provide a graphical tool to design power system stabilizers (PSS). The graphical tool shows how the closed loop poles move around this damping ratio line for different choices of PSS parameters, all of them placing a selected pair of complex-conjugate poles at the same desired point in the complex plane. New formulas are developed to determine the exact PSS parameters that promote the several possibilities of partial pole placement considering the parameter ranges used in tuning practice. These formulas can also be used for phase compensation of conventional methods of PSS design, such as GEP or Residue Angle Compensation. Multiple PSSs can be tuned using the DNP method sequentially. The proposed method is applied to two stabilization examples, the first of tutorial nature and the second is the large actual Brazilian Interconnected Power System.