Thesis
SEL protection and monitoring system
Other, Murdoch University
2013
Abstract
The protection of power distribution and transmission systems is a critical application in ensuring safe, reliable and efficient supply of electricity to the consumers. The protection allows for the mitigation of damage due to various network faults, preventing equipment damage and reducing downtime that can often result.
Within the University there is a collection of digital protective relays manufactured by Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, where the functionality, requirements and operational knowledge of the available devices remains largely unknown. Thus this thesis was tasked with drawing out this knowledge and providing a means of demonstrating the functions of the available devices.
In order to develop this understanding the project was divided into several components; familiarisation, investigation, Simulator development and operations testing.
The familiarisation and investigation components of the project allowed for acquisition of the required level of knowledge about the devices to enable development of a suitable Simulation platform to demonstrate the functional operations and applications of the available devices. This portion of the project yielded the required details about the scope of the protective functionality, the mechanisms and requirements to program this functionality and the operation requirements. This resulted in the construction of a hardware based Simulation platform, provided through Lab-Volt equipment, demonstrating the functional capability of the Transformer Protection Relay. The testing component provided a mechanism to ensure that the simulation and relay would demonstrate the available functionality as expected.
The simulation platform can be used to demonstrate the overcurrent and differential protection functionality along with providing an operable insight into the relay monitoring and metering capabilities. Hardware limitations prevented a truly realistic simulation being developed and tested, notably the low fault levels and restricted fault types available. However the construction of this Simulator has demonstrated the acquired knowledge of the relays and provided the groundwork to extend the Simulator to incorporate further relays and protective functionality.
Details
- Title
- SEL protection and monitoring system
- Authors/Creators
- Nicholas Kilburn
- Contributors
- Graeme Cole (Supervisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Murdoch University; Other
- Identifiers
- 991005543510207891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Engineering and Information Technology
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis
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