Applications of Synchrophasors Technology in Smart Grid
Applications of Synchrophasors Technology in Smart Grid
Smart Grid
Marwan Ahmed AbdullahSufyan, MohdZuhaib ,MohdRihan (Senior Member
IEEE)
EED, Z.H.C.E.T Collage, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Aligarh, India
Email:[email protected],[email protected],
[email protected]
1 Introduction
The nature of the large interconnected modern power system is becoming complex
day by day due to the introduction of large dynamic loads, integration of renewable
energy resources like solar, wind etc. [1]. Several severe blackouts have been oc-
curred throughout the world the driving force of which remain unnoticed to the power
system operators to prevent their occurrences. These outages necessitates the precise
monitoring of critical grid parameters such as frequency deviation, power flows, vol-
tage, angle etc. Therefore, it is necessary for the utility to develop such a system that
can monitor, control and protect its element from generation to distribution [2-3].
In the past few years, the power system mainly depends on traditional supervisory
control and data acquisition system (SCADA) for processes and control. These mea-
surements are not time-stamped and are unable to capture the completed dynamic of
the grid. They have very slow data scanning rate of about once in 4 seconds. This can
lead to insufficient capturing of actual dynamics of the system due to slow scanning
rate, unsynchronized measurements etc. [4].
Towards this direction of achieving the total grid observability,synchrophasors tech-
nology is widely accepted across the world. This technology involves installation of
PMU across the grid that has very high sampling rate of about 25-60 samples per
second and makes it a highly suitable device to capture the accurate dynamics of the
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This paper discusses various applications that the synchrophasor based wide area
monitoring system offers to modern power system that includes real time monitoring
and control, modal analysis, dynamic state estimation, contingency analysis, system
planning etc. The rest of the paper is divided in to the following sections. Section 2
provides the basic concept of synchrophasors technology. Section 3 gives an over-
view of synchrophasor based wide area monitoring system. Section 4 discusses po-
tential synchrophasors applications in smart grid. Section 5 presents a case study of an
application of synchrophasors in Indian Power grid under fog condition. The conclu-
sion is drawn in section 6.
2 SynchrophasorsTechnology
X (t ) X m cos(t )
(1)
Where X is the amplitude signal, is the frequency in rad/s,ɸis the phase angle in
radian. The rms value of X is
X
The phasor of sinusoidal signal is given by X = m .
2
X X
X X r jX i m e j m (cos j sin )
2 2 (2)
From eq.1 and eq.2, the sinusoidal signal and its phasor representation is shown in
Fig.1. The positive angles are estimated in an opposite clockwise direction from the
actual center. Even if the frequency of a sine wave was applied in the phasor determi-
X
nation, the phase variation is (0), hence the phasor becomes= m .
2
3
Substation
Data Aggregation Tier
Sub- PDC Sub- PDC Data Management Data
Function
And Applications Storage Aggregate and concentrate data
Local storage (e.g.2 months
PMU model
Voltage Frontend
anti-aliasing
Current filter Phasors
Backend
Performance Frequency
Class filter
Re ROCOF
(P-class/
A/D
M-class
converter Im
Real/Reactive
power
sin cos
They align the phasor data achieving from multiple locations installed with PMUs to
capture the coherent picture of the system [15].They store the PMU data locally and
send it to super PDC installed at control center.
It is required to transfer huge data from PMUs to the PDC/control centers. The
performance of WAMS containing huge amount of data heavily rely on fast, reliable
and secure communication system. It help in developing suitable control action to
mitigate the faulty conditions. The various options available for efficient data transfer
are microwave, telephone lines,satellite,power line communication,optical fiber etc.
Fiber optic cable is widely accepted for this purpose due to its wide bandwidth,
fastpropagation speed and immune to electromagnetic interference [16].
Super PDC is used for time aligning huge dataset aggregating from PMUs and local
PDCs. It can simultaneously store and send PMU data to multiple locations. By using
multiple PDCs, customer can create multiple layers of concentration, within a
Synchrophasors data system. It is located at central location of the power grid such as
transmission system control center [15].
Once the coherent picture of the entire grid is obtained at the central PDC, some
application tools are required to perform certain functions like power flow analysis,
load scheduling, load forecasting, fault location, contingency analysis etc.
4 Synchrophasors applications
Synchrophasors technology enables the advantage of efficient resolution to
substantially improve transmission system planning maintenance, operation, and
energy trading. Synchrophasors can give precise grid operating states. They can give
enhanced computation of power flows, allowing higher power transfer and reduced
crowding payments [6, 17-18].Need of Synchrophasors includes
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Real-time control and monitoring assistance enable the power grid to remain under
safety margins in the event of fault, while operating close to its limits. A power sys-
tem equipped with PMUs enable it to operate at higher capacity, best economics, and
enhanced accuracy. Various monitoring and control applications that a WAMS offers
in the modern power system are summarizedin Table 2[19].
Off-line (Post-mortem Finding of all types of errors, fault clearing time and location,
analysis of faults) nature and time of errors, successful and unsuccessful system
reclosing, voltage recovery post-fault clearance
Real-Time Synchrophaser
Measurements
Utilizing PMU measurements for frequency and angle estimation is a general feature
of such a system to improve the observability of electric grid. It can also be useful in
distribution systems in light of the fact that the functions they have to perform are
much more complex compared to transmission System. This is because of the presence
of large intermittent renewable energy resource. These measurements are quite helpful
in developing plenty of application for proper functioning of smart grid [24-25].
captured in the events. It can be tackled by regulating the generator load. In Fig.6,
positive sequence voltage between Meerut and Bassishows failure in auto reclosure
attempt of 400 KV line, between Meerut and Muzaffarnagar. In Fig.7, PMU capture
positive sequence voltage between Moga and Bassiand have successful auto reclosure
attempt of 765KV line between Moga and Bhiwani[31-32].
Meerut PMU 2050-2150 hrs
Hissar PMU
Fig.5. Positive sequence voltage plots of Meerut and Hissar PMU (20:50-21:50 hrs)
400 KV Meerut-Muzaffarnagar
Autoreclose attempts that failed 23 KV finally tripped at 0736hrs
Fig.6.Positive sequence voltage plots of Meerut and Bassi PMU (Failed Auto reclosureof 400
kV Meerut-Muzaffarnagar)
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Moga PMU
765KV Moga-Bhiwani
tripped at 0006hrs
Bassi PMU
Fig.7.Positive sequence voltage plots of Moga and Bassi PMU (successful Auto reclosure of
765 kV Moga-Bhiwani)
Conclusion
This paper highlights the importance of synchrophasors based wide area monitoring
system in improving the situational awareness of grid operators of modern power sys-
tem. Various applications that the Synchrophasors based WAMS offer to the grid are
discussed. These includes real time monitoring and control, fault detection and isola-
tion, modal analysis, load scheduling, state estimation etc. A case study is also pre-
sented highlighting the utility of such a system in detecting and isolating the fault un-
der worse operating conditions.
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