D.

1 Creating the Power System Components

The PowerFactory program allows the creation of new power system designs by creating all components
and manually connecting them to define the topology. The most convenient method of achieving this
is to use the interactive single line graphics. All component information is also accessible via a textual
database environment called ’Data Manager’
The single line graphics are used to create new power system components and to insert them into the
topological network. In this way, the power system database and its single line graphic are built together
in one step.
For example, editing the created power system components to set the voltage level or other electrical
parameters, may also be done from the single line graphic. This is achieved by double clicking the
graphical symbols. This will open the corresponding data dialogue of the power system component.
The following sections will illustrate this in more detail.
D.1.1 Creating Substations with Single Busbars
There are a lot of predefined busbar system arrangements in PowerFactory , for example single busbar
systems, single busbar systems with a tie circuit breaker, double busbar systems, double busbar systems
with a tie breaker and bypass busbar, and so on. All these systems consist of terminals, circuit
breakers and disconnectors.
Note: In PowerFactory Version 15 nodes are always represented by terminals (which is difference in
comparison to previous versions). A terminal may be part of a substation, e.g. in a single or
double busbar system. A new substation is created for each new ’busbar system’ by default. If
you use simple terminals instead of ’busbar systems’ to represent nodes, no substation element
will be created.
By clicking with the right mouse button on a terminal and selecting ’Show detailed Graphic of
Substation’ a new single line diagram with the detailed topology of the substation will be opened.
You can edit this graphic, if you want to change the topology of the substation. You can even add
new terminals to a substation.
When other power system elements, such as lines, transformers or loads (known generically as
edge and branch elements) are connected to a node, PowerFactory automatically inserts circuit
breaker models in order to open/close this connection. Cubicles with these circuit breakers may