Title :
Practical aspects of testing Phasor Data Concentrators for wide area monitoring systems
Author :
Renal, Govind ; Kanabar, Mital ; Muthukrishnan, Vijayasarathi
Author_Institution :
Technol. - New Product Introduction (NPI) Dept., Gen. Electr. - Digital Energy, Markham, ON, Canada
Abstract :
K Phasor Data Concentrator or Phasor Data Concentrator (PDC) is the key building block of the Wide Area Measurement System (WAMS) architecture. This paper presents practical aspects of functional testing of a PDC based on industrial experience on product design and testing. The specific contributions presented in this paper are listed below: test setup to ensure that all requirements that guided the PDC´s design and development are met; key aspects to examine during validation of different PDC functions (i.e. acceptable data rates and formats, time alignment, wait time etc.); validation of the synchrophasor communication protocols implemented on PDC (i.e. IEEE 37.118 and IEC 61850-90-5); time synchronization (with UTC - Coordinated Universal Time or local time zone); Device diagnosis functions (i.e. event recorder/SOE - Sequence Of Events, remote device status etc.); performance and stress testing; and Negative testing concepts.
Keywords :
phasor measurement; product design; protocols; synchronisation; IEC 61850-90-5 standard; IEEE 37.118 standard; PDC; SOE; UTC; WAMS architecture; coordinated universal time; device diagnosis function; event recorder; negative testing concept; phasor data concentrator; product design; product testing; sequence of event; stress testing; synchrophasor communication protocol; wide area measurement system architecture; wide area monitoring system; IEEE C37.118; data concentrators; synchrophasor;
Conference_Titel :
Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), 2014 IEEE 27th Canadian Conference on
Conference_Location :
Toronto, ON
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-3099-9
DOI :
10.1109/CCECE.2014.6901061
