Australian Protection Symposium 2013

August 20-21, 2013 | Dockside, Darling Harbour, Sydney, Australia

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Australian Protection Symposium

The Australian Protection Symposium (APS) provides an important platform for the exchange of information and experiences within the world of electrical protection. In 2012, the APS successfully brought together 80 active protection industry members for two days of presentations and robust discussions. Rarely do these unique opportunities arise to hear from and share with leaders in the electrical protection industry. Experts from Australia and overseas combine to bring you their experiences and knowledge to further the understanding of issues relevant to this industry.

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Now in its 7th year, the APS will again bring together engineers and technicians from electrical utilities, consultants, service companies, industrial and mining industries as well as those employed in the design, construction, commissioning, maintenance and/or assessment of electrical protection systems to share and learn. This makes the APS a must attend event for all in the Electrical Protection Industry.

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Selection of Included Presentations

NEW POSSIBILITIES IN FIELD TESTING OF DISTRIBUTED PROTECTION SYSTEMS
Thomas Hensler; Christopher Pritchard; Boris Bastigkeit OMICRON

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Increasing complexity of our electrical power system requires highly selective protection schemes such as teleprotection or line differential protection. Testing a distributed protection system involves distributed end-to-end tests with synchronized injection. Such end-to-end tests are dependent on correct calculation of the voltages and currents being injected on both (or even multiple) ends. For the execution of an actual fault scenario (shot) a single software application which controls all test devices on both (or multiple) ends from a single PC is explored for convenience and productiveness compared to separate software applications, which have to be operated for synchronized injection manually. This paper will discuss these new possibilities.

SUBSTATION-LEVEL AUTOMATION - IEC 61850 APPROACH

Anisur Rahman ; Palak Shah - ABB Australia
In the last decades, utilities have been increasing their investment in Substation Automation Systems (SAS). The intention is to decrease the number of interruptions and its duration, detect faulty conditions quicker, perform selective fault tripping and restore power automatically. Challenges in substation level automation include total customer visibility of processes and a single interface to control power plant and substation equipment, gathering of data from protection & control IEDs with different communication protocols and effective information transfer. It is important to view the GOOSE connection diagram from HMI interface with a real-time diagnosis and event list, query historical events, build GOOSE testers, view reports and plot specific network load trend graphs. This presentation discusses the grid automation controller, automation platform and user interface solution for utility and industrial distribution substations with IEC61850 Data Model and Structure, GOOSE Analysis and overall benefits of using IEC61850 standard.

FAT TESTING OF IEC 61850 CONCEPTS

Ian Young; Greg Finlayson - Schneider Electric
This paper looks at the Proof of Concept (POC) approach used by a utility to create their first IEC 61850 substation. Due to project deadlines it was immediately apparent that the time available on site would be inadequate to fully test and understand all the new concepts being introduced by IEC 61850. A POC system, which could be used to customise the IEC 61850 solution to their needs, test overall performance and train staff, was required in a limited time. This led to an integrator being used. The final POC included 18 IEDs, 6 switches, RTU and a SNTP time clock. This paper looks at the various tests performed on the FAT including protection, network, time and SCADA. The value of the POC was confirmed with philosophical changes being applied to the GOOSE signals as a result of end user testing in a real environment. A network flaw was also detected on the POC and corrected before installation at site avoiding major site rework.

CASE STUDY: DESIGN AND LESSONS LEARNT FROM GENERATOR AND TRANSFORMER GROUP PROTECTION UPGRADE IN TO DIGITAL PROTECTION SYSTEM AT WALLERAWANG POWER STATION
Sy Bui Aurecon Usman Mahmood - Delta Electricity
Protection systems are an essential and critical part of any power network. Failure of a protection system when required to operate can have severe consequences. Integrity of a protection system is a combination of security and dependability. Generator and Transformer Group Protection Systems at Wallerawang Power Station were replaced in 2008. The new digital protection system offers increased dependability and additional benefits including data retrieval and diagnostics. In the early days of system operation, the unit experienced a few false trips. This case study aims to present lessons learned from the design process and early operational experiences and suggests ways to improve them when upgrading from an electro-mechanical system to a new digital protection system.

August 20-21, 2013 | Dockside, Darling Harbour, Sydney, Australia

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PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE OF A SELF-HEALING POWER SYSTEM BY MEANS OF THE ZONE CONCEPT

Jarkko Holmlund; Tapio Hakola; Antti Kostiainen ABB Oy Oleg Gulich Fortum Oyj
Reliability of supply can be improved in a fast and cost-efficient manner through increasing automation and fault location by dividing the power system into limited and manageable sections. The planned way to do this is the Zone Concept introduced in this paper. In the Zone Concept the power systems feeders are divided into zones based on consumption criticality and disturbance vulnerability. Benefits of the Zone Concept can be fully utilized by using remote-controlled switching devices in combination with a Distribution Management System (DMS). Measuring the fault current at the network breaker, line reclosers and remote controlled disconnectors enhances the fault localization provided by substation equipment. This paper describes the theoretical and practical aspects of implementing the Zone Concept in urban and rural power distribution systems and the benefits obtained. The paper also deals with feeder and substation automation issues in connection with the Zone Concept to enhance network SAIFI and SAIDI values by pushing development towards a self-healing power system.

CASE STUDY: CAUSE OF FAILURE AND DESIGN CHANGES OF CTs AT GENERATOR STAR POINT
Terry Foxcroft Snowy Hydro
Tumut 3 Power Station is the largest hydro power station in Australasia. Starting in 2011 the current transformers at the generator star point began to fail and catch fire. Current transformers were then replaced, and there appeared to be a common failure mode to all the failed current transformers. Current transformers went through several design stages until a final solution was implemented. This paper describes the causes of the failure and design changes required to remove the risk of future failure.

SYNCHROPHASORS APPLICATION FOR PROTECTION CAN WE USE THEM?

Alexander Apostolov PAC World
Development of multifunctional intelligent electronic devices for protection and other applications that perform synchrophasor calculations and the improvements in inter and intra-substation communications bring the industry to a time when many specialists are thinking about the use of synchrophasors for protection applications. This paper describes the introduction of two synchrophasor performance classes defined in IEEE PC37.118.1. Synchrophasors based applications to substation protection applications are later discussed. Examples include bus differential protection and reclosing with synchrocheck. Transmission line protection using synchrophasors for the calculation of the differential current is described. Further topics include the impact of loss of time synchronization in one of the substations, System Integrity Protection Schemes based on the use of synchrophasors, use and requirements for a hierarchical system of Phasor Data Concentrators, requirements for synchrophasors reporting rate, time synchronization and communication architecture and the testing of synchrophasors based protection systems.

CIRCUIT BREAKER FAIL PROTECTION SCHEME FOR MODERN SUBSTATIONS

Leonardo Torelli - Entura
The advanced capability of protection relays, the continuous and increased standardisation of substation design and the implementation of modern communication technologies provide several options to protection designers. This paper focuses on the selection of the circuit breaker fail protection scheme used by some of the Utilities in Australia. The analysis is conducted by referring to the cardinal principles of power protection: reliability, selectivity, sensitivity, cost and speed of operation. This paper investigates how the latest protection technologies have changed substation design but engineering basics are still a key drive for designers.

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