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Power Quality Monitoring
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Measure of disruptions in the power supply
Availability
Reliability
Power Quality Events recorded to an existing standard
Power System Analysis
What is Power Quality?
M571 Compact Disturbance Recorder
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Power Quality Standards
Some existing Power Quality standards
EN 50160 Standard (Europe)
IEEE 1159 Recommended Practice (North America)
NRS-048 standards (South Africa)
also ITIC (CBEMA) curve for computer equipment
Defining the technical criteria for voltage quality
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Power Quality definitions: Dips and Surges
Voltage dips
Amplitude and duration
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120
110%
100%
90%
Time
Surge/Swell - Above 110% of Nominal value
Dip/Sag - Below 90% of Nominal Value
Short time 1min to 60min
Very Short time 1 sec to 1min duration
RMS Value calculated over 10 minute period
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Power Quality definitions: DISDIP
Distribution of Dips Report
Tabular distribution of dip events
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ITIC CurvePower Quality Envelope
ITIC Curve: 1996
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50%
100%
150%
200%
250%
300%
350%
400%
450%
500%
0 3 20 500 10000
Rating
Time mS
Voltage tolerance
ITIC (CBEMA) Curve revised 1996
Single phase IT operating parameters
Swells or Overvoltage: rating very short over 110%(towards 0ms)
Sags or Undervoltage: rating very short under 70% (500ms) Financial Costs
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Power Quality definitions: Interruptions
Voltage interruptions
Amplitude and duration
Interruption below 1% of Nominal value EN50160
Interruption below 10% of Nominal value IEEE 1159
Time duration depends on equipment tolerance, generally more than 1 cycle
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20
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60
80
100
120
110%
100%
90%
10%
1%
InterruptionTime
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Power Quality definitions: Harmonics and Signalling voltages
Voltage harmonics
Losses proportional
to Frequency 2
Total Harmonic Distortion (THD%)
Measured according IEC 61000-4-7
Measure every 200ms using FFT, 10min RMS average
Signalling voltages, 3 sec RMS average
0%
2%
4%
6%
8%
10%
12%
50HZ
63HZ
100H
Z
153H
Z
200H
Z
Limit
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Power Quality definitions: Flicker
Voltage flicker
Severity
Time
Measured according IEC 61000-4-15, over a 2hour period (Plt) over a 10 min period (Pst)
Modulation of the RMS voltage that can be seen by the human eye ~8.8HZ
Classified by a severity index:1 = good
<1 = better
>1 = worse
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20
40
60
80
100
120
110%
100%
90%
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Power Quality definitions: Unbalance
Voltage unbalance
Percentage
Time
Where the voltage vectors do not add to zero
Where the voltage magnitudes are unequal
10 minute average of RMS values
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
110%
100%
90%
Time
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Power Quality definitions: Frequency
Frequency change
Swiss- Italian Fault September 2003
EN 50160 : 50 Hz +4% / -6%
NRS048 : ±2.5% for grid network
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Sources of poor Power Quality
Power Quality flows
Power Quality as a polluter
Sources:
Industrial sites
Domestic rural sites
Utility network
Exported to others
Imported from others
Circulate within the site
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Cause and Effect of poor Power Quality 1
Dips / Sags
Remote fault, load switching
Trips, process control restarting, motors stalling
Surges / Swells
Lightning strikes, arcing and switching
Trips, damage to insulation and winding, destruction of sensitive devices
Interruption
Faults, equipment failure, protection operation
Production down time
Financial costs
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Cause and Effect of poor Power Quality 2
Voltage Variation
Load variation (e.g. welding, furnaces..)
Trips, damage to insulation and winding
Harmonics and Interharmonics
Power electronics, non-linear loads; signalling voltages
Equipment mal-operation, damage to motors, generators and transformers
Flicker
Load variations at a particular frequency(e.g. arc furnaces..)
Noticable effects in the lighting
Financial costs
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Cause and Effect of poor Power Quality 3
Voltage Unbalance
Unbalanced Load variation
Overheating in motors and generators
Frequency
Loss of generation, governors
Generator trip (extreme)
Financial costs
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Why monitor Power Quality? 1
SUPPLIERS
Network Planning
• accurate forecast of demand
• load profiling
• optimise transformer load
• optimise PQ remedy location
Legislation (de-regulated energy markets)
Monitor Consumers
Proactively respond to complaints
Asset management and customer care
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Why monitor Power Quality? 2
CONSUMERS
Identify source of PQ problems
Reduce Financial Costs
• Lost production
• Replacement of equipment
Reduce Operational Costs
• Interruption of services
• Working environment (Flicker)
Compliance
• With supply agreements
Asset management and customer care
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Most prevalent Power Quality problems
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European Copper Institute (2001): 1400 sites in 8 countries
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Financial cost of poor Power Quality
Semi conductor Industry 3,800
Financial Trading 6,000 per hour
Computer centre 750
Telecommunications 30 per minute
Steel Works 350
Glass Industry 250
Typical financial loss per event € ‘ 000s
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Power Quality Benefits
SUB TRANSMISSION
DISTRIBUTION
SECONDARY DISTRIBUTION
LV NETWORK
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SECONDARY (RURAL)DISTRIBUTION
HeavyIndustry
Medium Industry
Light Industry
POW GEN
IPPPOW GEN
IPP
Renewable Sources/IPP/ Municipal
CO-GENDOMESTIC
URBANTRANSFORMERS
CHEMICAL PLANTS
STEEL WORKS
GRID LOAD FLOW IMPROVEMENT
END USER VOLTAGE IMPROVEMENT
DEFINED IN PQ STANDARDS
DEFINED BY PLANNING LEVELS
TRANSMISSION NETWORK
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Solutions: Improving Power Quality
UN-INTERRUPTIBLE POWER SUPPLIES
Dips, surges, spikes and interruptions
EARTHING PRACTICES
Harmonics
FILTERS (passive and active)
Harmonics
STATIC VAR COMPENSATION (SVC)
Dips, surges and Power Factor
FERRO-RESONANCE TRANSFORMERS (Stored Energy)
Dips, surges, spikes and interruptions
Important to place at the correct location
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M570 Compact Family Typical IED
Fixed option configurations
20A fault current
Up to 14 Channels
Optional 4 DI & 4 DO
Unlimited AO by Analog Output Controller
Optional Ethernet
70 Series Firmware
70 Series Software
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Magnitude- Duration list
Global view of the events over the
assessmentperiod
Win DR Manager (QR Monitor+ viewer)
Event viewing:
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1/2 cycle
Programmed thresholds
%RMS
Win DR Manager (QR Monitor+ viewer)
Event viewing:
Zoom of the events global view: 1/2 cycle
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Voltage
Frequency
Win DR Manager (QR Monitor+ viewer)
Trend viewing (average 10min)
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EN50160 viewing of history data(average 10 min)
Display of events during the assessment period.
Win DR Manager (QR Monitor+ viewer)
Trend viewing
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Simultaneous display of evolution of THD and the accordingly full harmonic content with peak detection :
THD evolution
Spectrum at time cursor position
Peak detection
Win DR Manager (QR Monitor+ viewer)
Trend viewing
Harmonic investigation
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TIHD
Inter-harmonics at cursor 1 position
06h00 22h30
Group 2(150-200Hz)
(average 10 min)
Win DR Manager (QR Monitor+ viewer)
Trend viewing
History viewing: inter-harmonic spectrum view
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Win DR Manager (QR Monitor+ viewer)
PQ report creation and generation
Creation
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Win DR Manager (QR Monitor+ viewer)
PQ report creation and generation
Creation: use of an existing profile (template)
Available actions
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Win DR Manager (QR Monitor+ viewer)
PQ report creation and generation
Generation: PQ report on a single unit
Events PQ reports
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Win DR Manager (QR Monitor+ viewer)
PQ report creation and generation
Generation: PQ report on a single unit
Events PQ reports
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Istat M2x3 Measurement Centre Family
M253 Network Analyser (Power Quality)
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PQ to EN50160
Permanent monitoring for up to 3 years
Monitoring parameters:
Frequency variations
Voltage variations
Voltage Dips
Voltage Interruptions
Voltage Unbalance
Transients
Flicker
THD
Harmonics
M253 Power Quality compliance monitoring
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True RMS measurements over 140 parameters
128 samples per cycle
Programmable analogue outputs
Measured parameters:
U, I, P, Q, S, PF, PA, f, φ
Maximum Demands
THD
Harmonics up to 63
Energy
Cost Management
Min / Max values
M253 Harmonic Measurements