Validating a real-time PMU-based application for monitoring of sub-synchronous wind farm oscillations

Baudette, Maxime; Vanfretti, Luigi; Del-Rosario, Gerard; Ruiz-Alvarez, Albert; Domínguez‐García, José Luis; Al-Khatib, Iyad; Almas, Muhammad Shoaib; Cairó, Ignasi; Gjerde, J.O.

doi:10.1109/isgt.2014.6816444

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“…One setup involved the use of a real-time digital simulator with a model reproducing the sub-synchronous oscillatory phenomenon [18], [19]. In the second setup, the simulator was replaced by power emulators, producing real power oscillations [20].…”

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“…Figure 1 presents a comparison between SCADA and PMU measurements for this phenomenon. The utilization of PMUs enables observability for phenomena occurring at frequencies up to [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25] Hz across wide geographical regions, opening new wide perspectives for monitoring and control applications based on synchrophasors. These new tools will help in acquiring a better knowledge on the challenges brought by the increase of intermittent energy sources.…”

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A PMU-based fast real-time sub-synchronous oscillation detection application

Vanfretti

Baudette

Dominguez-Garciaz

et al. 2015

2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC)

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The share of wind power has strongly increased in electricity production, raising several issues concerning its integration to power grids. Unexpected dynamic phenomena, such as oscillatory events around 13 Hz have been recorded in the US by Oklahoma Gas & Electric (OG&E). Such interactions differ from traditional and well studied inter-area oscillations, and the ability to detect them is beyond the measurement capabilities of most of the existing measurement equipment and monitoring tools in Energy Management Systems (EMS) systems.This paper presents the development and implementation of algorithms for PMU-based real-time fast sub-synchronous oscillation detection, focusing on the aforementioned case.The paper focuses on the tool itself and its algorithms, briefly presents an approach carried out for testing and validating it. Experience from the use of the tool at OG&E is also described.

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Section: B Resultsmentioning

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A PMU-based fast real-time sub-synchronous oscillation detection application

Vanfretti

Baudette

Dominguez-Garciaz

et al. 2015

2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC)

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“…Note that since the oscillation is kept constant, the resulting energy calculation is almost constant once the low frequency oscillation is detected. It can also be seen in the graphical display that the severity of the fault is flagged as "Danger", since the amplitude of the oscillation has gone beyond the configured threshold [15]. Figure 10 shows an estimated frequency around 1.1 Hz.…”

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Validation experiment design of a PMU-based application for detection of sub-synchronous oscillations

Domínguez‐García

Baudette

Del-Rosario

et al. 2015

2015 IEEE 15th International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC)

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This paper presents an approach to design laboratory experiments able to test the functional performance of a PMU-based application. The function of this application is to detect sub-synchronous oscillatory dynamics product of wind farm-to-grid interactions.The designed experiments are carried out in operation conditions similar to those that the PMU-based application would experience in field implementations, while the approach adopted for experiment design takes into account technical limitations of laboratory equipment.The experiments are performed in a laboratory which has been equipped with synchrophasor technology for the purposes of this work. Real PMU devices physically connected on a small replica of a three-phase low voltage micro-grid where oscillations can be systematically injected.

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“…The BFE software tool was utilized to develop a monitoring tool capable of detecting and providing alarms for subsynchronous wind farm in the transmission networks due to high penetration of the wind based electric generation. The developed monitoring tool was validated by using real-measurements from Oklahoma and Electric (OG&E) [17] through hardware-in-the-loop real-time simulation testing in KTH SmarTS-Lab [18] and hardware-based emulation at IREC's microgrid laboratory [19]. In addition, the application's functionality was appraised against OG&Es own in-house software in [20].…”

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BabelFish—Tools for IEEE C37.118.2-compliant real-time synchrophasor data mediation

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BabelFish (BF) is a real-time data mediator for development and fast prototyping of synchrophasor applications. BF is compliant with the synchrophasor data transmission IEEE Std C37.118.2-2011. BF establishes a TCP/IP connection with any Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) or Phasor Data Concentrator (PDC) stream and parses the IEEE Std C37.118.2-2011 frames in real-time to provide access to raw numerical data in the LabVIEW environment. Furthermore, BF allows the user to select ‘‘data-of-interest’’and transmit it to either a local or remote application using the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) in order to support both unicast and multicast communication. In the power systems Wide Area Monitoring Protection and Control (WAMPAC) domain, BF provides the first Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) for the purpose of giving the users tools for fast prototyping of new applications processing PMU measurements in their chosen environment, thus liberating them of time consuming synchrophasor data handling and allowing them to develop applications in a modular fashion, without a need of a large and monolithic synchrophasor software environment.

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Validating a real-time PMU-based application for monitoring of sub-synchronous wind farm oscillations

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A PMU-based fast real-time sub-synchronous oscillation detection application

A PMU-based fast real-time sub-synchronous oscillation detection application

Validation experiment design of a PMU-based application for detection of sub-synchronous oscillations

BabelFish—Tools for IEEE C37.118.2-compliant real-time synchrophasor data mediation

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