Amman Asia Electric Power Company

AAEPC ( IPP3 Power Plant)

Amman - Jordan

IPP3 Blackout Standard of operation (SOP)

Date : 1st June 2021
Omar Hindawi

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 • Blackout conditions for peak
plant as example (MV and LV) .

• Black-start DG set Auto

operation (peak plant as
example).

• Soft start operation.

• Engine mode operation.

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 Blackout conditions for peak plant (MV Blackout conditions
and LV).

• All six (6) MV breakers of outgoing

feeders in open condition, voltage
supervision not active.

• All six (6) MV basbar measuring relay

BAM90_ dead bus active.

• Both LV busbar BDP901 and BDP902

dead bus active.

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PEAK PLANT MV, LV SLD.

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BLACK START DG SET OPERATION

• Auto Starting sequence of Black-start DG set:

Black start DG set Auto operation (peak plant).
PLC will open following LV breakers to avoid automatic
• Conditions for starting black start in Auto mode: start of equipment:
1. Blackout status is active.
This sequence will start after 20s of activation blackout
2. BDP LV busbar energizing sequence is not active. condition.
3. Black start enable sequence is active in LV page from
• Q1 Till Q10.
WOIS station. • F9 F10 and F20 in BDP901.
• F11 F26 F30 and F39 in BDP901.
• F17 in BDP911B.
• F6 and F23 in BDP912.
• F2 F3 F4 and F18 in BDP913
• F20 in BDP914.
• F24 in BDP915.
• Q16 and Q25 in LV basbar to isolate black start
busbar BNA901
• Q15 and Q18 to isolate BDP901 and BDP902 busbar.

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BLACK START DG SET OPERATION
Black start DG set Auto operation (peak plant).
PLC will give black-start start command and after getting
running signal active PLC will close following breakers in
sequence.
• Q26 to energized BNA901 black-start busbar.
• Q12 and Q16 to start feeding BFA902.
• Q11 Q15 and Q17 to start feeding BDP901 from
BFA902.
• Q36 Q37 Q38 to charge DC system.
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Notes:
1. After this stage operator can run plant Auxiliary and
start one engine for dead busbar synchronization,
after that operator can charge auxiliary transformer for
auxiliary load supply,
2. If BFA902 energizing fail, PLC will give 30s delay to
energize BFA905, and it will follow-up closing Q14,
Q25, Q13 and Q18 for energization BFA902 then
close Q18 to feed BDP902.
BLACK START DG SET OPERATION

Black start DG set Q26 and Q133

Conditions for closing breaker in Auto mode:

1. BSDG in Auto position.
2. Incoming breakers between peak and base plant are
in open position (BNA901 and BNA902)
3. BSDG start is active.
4. BSDG running status active.
5. MCB of Black start in close position.
6. Voltage supervision status active.
7. Start stop fault alarm not active in BSDG.

Conditions for opening breaker in Auto mode:

1. Black start in stop condition.
2. MCB of Black start in open position.
3. Black start stop order active.

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SOFT START OPERATION

• Soft-start operation mode will enable to close outgoing • Soft-start operation mode will enable engine AVR
MV breaker even MV busbar is dead. excitation whenever generator breaker is close

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SOFT START OPERATION

• Conditions to enable soft-start operation: • Soft-starting energizing:

• Confirm that all outgoing feeders BAO901-BAO906 are
• Outgoing soft-start enable to be active from CFA901.
open and HV blackout condition is active by opening
• Both 400KV overhead line (OHL1 and OHL2) are open
OHL1 and OHL2.
from NEPCO side .
• Request NEPCO to close breaker for Step-up
transformer which operator plan to do soft-start for it.
• Close manually outgoing feeder BAO90_ for chosen
step-up transformer.
• Manually Close engine MV breaker BAE0_1, at least at
80% of engine nominal speed, and only after closing
generator breaker, generator AVR excitation will active.
• Monitor voltages in both end of step-up transformer.
• Switch off soft-start selector switch in CFA901 once
complete soft-start energizing.
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ENGINE OPERATION MODES

• All Engines will forcefully run into Island mode

operation if ANY if soft start operation is active, even
after closing MV and HV breaker.
• Island mode operation will disable KW mode
operation, engine load will follow available load from
grid and auxiliary.
• In case of running IPP3 for energizing total dead grid
operator has to keep engines running in Island mode.
• Changing back to KW mode that will enable KW
reference for each engine, so operator has to confirm
each KW reference of each engine before disabling
soft-start condition.
• Engines will back to normal KW mode operation after
operator disable all soft-start switch in CFA901 panel
and engine parallel with grid signal is active.

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