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Phasor Measurement Unit

This document discusses phasor measurement units (PMUs), which are devices that measure electrical waveforms on the power grid and provide time-synchronized phasor data. PMUs sample voltage and current waveforms much more frequently than traditional SCADA systems. They can provide real-time monitoring of the grid for applications like wide-area monitoring, visualization and control. The document covers the motivation for PMUs, how they work, their system architecture, applications, challenges and research opportunities.

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Phasor Measurement Unit

This document discusses phasor measurement units (PMUs), which are devices that measure electrical waveforms on the power grid and provide time-synchronized phasor data. PMUs sample voltage and current waveforms much more frequently than traditional SCADA systems. They can provide real-time monitoring of the grid for applications like wide-area monitoring, visualization and control. The document covers the motivation for PMUs, how they work, their system architecture, applications, challenges and research opportunities.

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Phasor Measurement Unit

or Synchrophasors
Dinesh Kajjam
Karthik Reddy Mekala
Contents

´  Motivation
´  SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition)
´  Phasor
´  Phasor Measurement Unit
´  Architecture
´  Working
´  Real Time Dynamics Monitoring System
´  Applications
´  Challenges
´  Research
Motivation:
´  Need for more electricity
´  Integration and management of renewable energy
´  Optimal use of ageing assets
´  Ensure reliability of supply
´  Energy efficiency and security
´  Dynamic operation of power system
Power System Operational Paradigm

´  Sense

´  Communicate

´  Compute

´  Visualize

´  Control

´  Situational Awareness and Decision Support


SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data
Acquisition)
•  SCADA system supervises, controls, optimizes and manages generation and
transmission systems.

ATTRIBUTE SCADA PMU

Resolution 1 sample every 2-4 10-60 samples per second


Seconds (steady State (Dynamic Observability)
Observability)
Measured Quantities Magnitude only Magnitude and phase
angle
Time Synchronization No Yes
Total Input/output Channels 100+ Analog & Digital ~10 Phasors, 16+ digital,
16+ analog
Focus Local monitoring and Wide area monitoring and
control control
Motivation: Estimation vs. Reality

Figure: Comparison of actual system dynamics and estimated result from


1996 WECC event
Phasor:
´  An AC waveform can be mathematically represented by the equation

´  In a phasor notation, this waveform is typically represented as


Phasor:
´  Rotating vector used to describe AC circuits which is characterized by
‘Magnitude’ & ‘Phase’

´  By definition they rotate counter-clockwise


Phasor Measurement Unit
´  A Synchrophasor is a phasor that is time stamped to an extremely precise and
accurate time reference.

´  Basically a solid-state relay or digital fault recorder with GPS clock.

´  Synchronized phasors (synchrophasors) provide a real-time measurement

of electrical quantities across the power system.

´  The resultant time tagged phasors can be transmitted to a local or remote
receiver at rates up to 60 samples per second.

´  Continuously measures voltages and current phasors and other key parameters
and transmits time stamped messages.
Phasor Measurement Unit - Connections

Current and potential transformer connections with PMU


Phasor Measurement Unit- Data Collection
Topology
Phasor Measurement Unit – System
Architecture
Phasor Measurement Unit
Phasor Data Concentrator:

´  Aligns information by time the incoming PMU messages from multiple
measuring devices and sends out the aggregated synchronized data set as
a single data stream.

´  Archive data and process the information.

´  Exchange records with PDCs at other locations.

Communication:

´  Links multiple PMUs to a PDC (or PDCs to other PDCs) for real time data
transfer.

´  Secure VPN connection from a communications center


Phasor Measurement Unit – Message
Information
´  The captured phasors are to be time-tagged based on the time of the UTC
time reference.

´  The Time Stamp is an 8-byte message consisting a 4 byte “Second Of


Century – SOC”, a 3-byte Fraction of Second and a 1-byte Time Quality
indicator.

´  The SOC time-tag counts the number of seconds that have occurred since
inception of PMU, With 3-bytes for the Fraction of Second, one second can
be broken down into 16,777,216 counts or about 59.6 nsec/count and the
Time Quality byte contains information about the status and relative
accuracy of the source clock
Phasor Measurement Unit – Performance
criteria
´  Accuracy for the Synchrophasor is measured by a value termed the “Total
Vector Error” or TVE.

´  TVE is defined as the square root of the difference squared between the
real and imaginary parts of the theoretical actual phasor and the
estimated phasor to the ratio of magnitude of the theoretical phasor and
presented as a percentage.

´  Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) that must maintain less than a 1% TVE
under conditions of ±5 Hz of off-nominal frequency, 10% Total Harmonic
Distortion, and 10% out-of-band influence signal distortion.
Phasor Measurement Unit – Performance
criteria
Phasor Measurement Unit - Measurements

PMUs measure (synchronously):

´  Positive sequence voltages and currents

´  Phase voltages and currents

´  Local frequency

´  Local rate of change of frequency

´  Circuit breaker and switch status


Real Time Dynamics Monitoring
System(RTDMS)
´  RTDMS is a Synchrophasor software application for providing real time, wide
area situational awareness to Operators, Reliability Coordinators, Planners
and Operating Engineers, as well as the capability to monitor and analyze
the dynamics of the power system.

´  RTDMS provides critical metrics of grid dynamics, like

´  Phase Angle Differences (Grid Stress)

´  Small Signal Stability (Oscillations & Damping)

´  Frequency Instability

´  Generation-Load Imbalance

´  Power-Angle Sensitivity

´  Power-Voltage Sensitivity


Real Time Dynamics Monitoring
System(RTDMS)

Figure: RTDMS application dashboard


Phasor Measurement Unit – Applications

´  Global behavior may be understood from local measurement

´  Phasor measurement data can be used to supplement/enhance existing


control center functions and provide new functionalities.

´  Phasor measurement data with GPS signal can provide synchronized
voltage and current phasor measurements across a wide region

´  By measuring the phase directly, the power transfer between buses can be
computed directly

´  High sampling rate (30 samples per second) Extended visibility: beyond
one’s own operating region

´  Disturbance monitoring –transient and steady-state responses


Phasor Measurement Unit - Challenges:

´  Visualization of PMU data – Difficult to visualize and manage large amounts
of data.

´  Communication of PMU data – Expensive communication network


required.

´  Optimal Placing of PMU’s.

´  High investment.

´  Diverse requirements from the utilities.

´  Communication delays.


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