Integrating a power quality monitoring system in a distribution control center

Author

Garcez, J.N. ; Bezerra, U.H. ; Castro, A.L.S. ; Alves, R.N.C. ; Lima, W.J.F. ; Castro, A.R.G. ; Maciel, J.H. ; Moscoso, M.N. ; Tenório, K. ; Tupiassu, A.A. ; Mesquita, J.E.

Author_Institution

Supervision & Control Syst. Group, NESC, Belem, Brazil

Volume

3

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Abstract

This paper describes a power quality monitoring system to be integrated in a distribution energy control center of a Brazilian electric utility. The monitoring system comprises several monitoring units located at individual service entrances connected to secondary master stations, modems and the host computer at the distribution energy control center. The hardware and software of the monitoring instrument are described as well as communication software between the monitoring units and the master station. The utility has evaluated the monitoring system, onsite, in a pilot project, with satisfactory results, assuring low cost, high performance, high reliability and capability of integration with the energy distribution control center

Keywords

computerised monitoring; power distribution control; power engineering computing; power supply quality; power system measurement; Brazil; distribution energy control center; electric utilities; power quality monitoring; Communication system control; Computerized monitoring; Control systems; Costs; Distributed computing; Hardware; Instruments; Modems; Power industry; Power quality;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Tech Proceedings, 2001 IEEE Porto

Conference_Location

Porto

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7139-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PTC.2001.964932

Filename

964932