DMWG June 20, 2010

Tutorial on Synchronized Phasor Measurements: Fundamentals and Applications

Sponsored by: Dynamic Performance Committee (Power System Dynamic Measurements Working Group)

Organizer: Joe Chow

This tutorial is intended for engineers in power companies considering infrastructure investment in synchrophasor technology. Topics covered include understanding phasors, the computation of phasors in phasor measurement units (PMUs), phasor data protocol and collection, approaches used by power companies to build wide-area measurement systems, and applications including adaptive protection, state estimations, and transfer path parameter calculations.

All presentations 35 minutes: 30 minutes for presentation and 5 minutes for questions and answers

8:00 Opening Remarks: Joe Chow

Part I. Phasor Measurement Fundamentals 1. 8:10 Introduction to Synchronized Phasor Measurements – Arun Phadke, Virginia Tech 2. 8:45 Phasor Measurement Unit Installation and Testing – Ken Martin, Electric Power Group 3. 9:20 Communication Issues in PMU Networks – Andrew Armenia and Joe Chow, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

9:55-10:10 Break

Part II. Developing Wide-Area Measurement Systems 4. 10:10 Western Interconnection Synchro-Phasor project – Dmitry Kosterev, BPA 5. 10:45 Developing Wide-Area Measurement Systems – The Nordic Power Grid: Kjetil Uhlen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Sintef Energy Research, Norway 6. 11:20 WACS Design at Hydro Quebec – Innocent Kamwa and Charles Cyr, Hydro Quebec, Canada 7. 11:55 Wide Area View for the Smart Grids – Yilu Liu, University of Tennessee

12:30 – 1:30 Lunch Break

Part III. Applications 8. 1:30 Adaptive Protection in Power Systems – James S. Thorp, Virginia Tech 9. 2:00 Modal Analysis of Ringdown Transients – Dan Trudnowski, Montana Tech 10. 2:30 Oscillation analysis: Ambient PMU Data – John Pierre, University of Wyoming 11. 3:00 Use of PMU Measurements for State Estimation– Ali Abur, Northeastern University 12. 3:30 Phasor-Only State Estimation – Luigi Vanfretti, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden 13. 4:00 A Network-Theoretic Approach for Dynamic Equivalencing of Large Power Systems using Distributed Synchrophasors – Aranya Chakrabortty, Texas Tech

4:30 Wrap up