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National Grid, Scottish Power, Siemens and
ABB. Such collaborations will help support Project hightights university research with a multidisciplinary
and engage the development of innovative training environment, enabling researchers
research concepts. MIGRATE (Massive Integration of to develop knowledge in leading power
Power Electronic Devices) is a €r8.4 network research and then to use the
million Horizon zozo project to flnd solu- transferable skills in industrial applications
Current research interests tions to the challenges posed by the increas- for future energy provision.
ing penetration of power electronic devices The proiect: The Manchester RTDS
Testing at the faciLity is currentty focused on: into power systems. The Europe-wide effort PHIL testing platform integration with
o Wide area monitoring, protection and includes 23 partners such as system opera- IED DACs device architecture enables
controL assessment. tors, manufacturers and researchers. closed-loop testing of a microgrid, fault
The proiect: The Manchester RTDS will be location and isolation based on a "point-
Power and energy network topotogies of used to test wide-area monitoring system to-point" communication network bus.
smart grids with innovative concepts. (WAMS) applications for inertia and short The automation can also be designed for
circuit-level monitoring. This will support the automatic topology recognition and self-
IEC 61850-8-1/-9-2 process bus development of advanced system integrity healing microgrid architecture. In this
architectures for digitaI substation protection schemes that will combat wide- project, RTDS PHII simulates the analogue
automation of protection and controI area blackouts, and generate data about the signals used as inputs for driving control
devices. consequences of the increasing penetration signals for IED DACs, and physical latching
of power electronics on power quality, relays are connected to illustrate and
DNP3/IEC 5OB7O-5-1 04 SCADA system stability and system protection. monitor the control assignment results.
communication interface for power Scope of research: Hardware-in-the{oop Scope of research: The Manchester
distribution network modeL[ing and (HIL) testing is the best way to study the RTDS PHIL has an integrated interface
monitoring. performance of prototype methods for capability with multiple IED DACs to control
combating high-impact, low-probability latching relay systems along with DAC
IEEE C37.118.1/ RTDS/GTNET PMU events. The high-fldelity electromagnetic SCADA monitor and control automation.
synchrophasor data streaming and PMU- transient models available allow detailed Speciflcally, it can support the low-carbon
WAM controI and protection with phasor study of the possible interactions and transformation of power networks and
data concentrators. consequences for a
system with high drive future innovations of distributed
penetration of
power electronic devices. generation and smart energy transmission
HVDC for industry-standard mutti- Furthermore, the MMC support unit and distribution networks.
terminaI HVDCiM MC controls system. at Manchester allows these studies to
include VSC HVDC, which with increasing VISOR (Visualisation of Real Time
interconnection of neighbouring systems System Dynamics using Enhanced
and the potential for multi-terminal HVDC Monitoring) is a 87.6 million flagship
networks, will be one of the most signif,cant Network Innovation Competition project led
network technologies of the future. by SP Energy Networks to demonstrate the
flrst WAMS that will encompass the entire
DACfoTDTI/FIP (Distribution Auto- GB power system.
mation Control for Dynamic The prolect is underpinned by a data
Topology Identification and Fault acquisition infrastructure consisting of new
Isolation Process) is Manchester's monitoring units, data centres and dedicated
recent open innovation collaborative servers, all communicating through a new
research proiect and part of the EPSRC high-performance communication link
Centre for Doctoral Training in Power between the three transmission operators in
Networks. It combines the expertise of Scotland and England. The trial is intended
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to give the system operator the ability and and industrial partners including ABB, GE
confidence to use the full capacity of the (Alstom Grid), NR Electric and Siemens. The
network when more wind generation leads university will implement the platform and
to more volatile system flows, resulting in invite manufacturers to demonstrate their
greater operating margins to maintain and protection equipment or software tools.
manage network security. A conservative Scope of research: The Manchester RTDS
estimate of annual operational savings is is used to generate substation primary
€4 million. signals for merging units and to create
The WAM system will also give fault events for protection relays. The RTDS
transmission operators a risk-mitigating receives protection and control signals
measure in a
period of uncertainty to from the relays for closed-loop testing.
help safeguard the network against low- The VSATT platform helps utilities assess
probability high-impact events that may vendor interoperability on a station bus
result in partial or widespread system failure. using IEC 6185o-8-r GOOSE and MMS control
The proiect: This groundbreaking WAMS data exchange between bays supplied by
is the result of collaboration between different suppliers. Also, utilities can use
system designers, operators, developers the platform to carry out virtual site testing
and researchers, and will demonstrate for partner vendors, reducing the overall
applications that exploit real-time systems and a representative model of the GB technical and commercial risks associated
synchronised measurements to enhance transmission system. with real site testing. ru
our understanding of system dlmamics and Future scope: Beyond testing, the RTDS
sub-synchronous oscillations. A WAMS will be used to investigate the complex
can therefore reduce operational costs and interactions between the different Future Research
capital expenditure. VISOR is using the technologies controlled by the scheme to
Manchester RTDS to study the performance create an optimised controller that exploits The RTDS faciLities are used in various
of phasor measurement units - which are the unique advantages of each technology. ongoing research initiatives such as:
the predominant sensors in a WAMS - when . Devetopment of IEC 61850, C37.'1 1B
they are exposed to complex power system VSATT (Virtual Site Acceptance and IEC 60870 digitat substation
behaviour. Testing Training) is an E4o5,ooo Ofgem communication protoco[s.
Future scope: As well as this research, the Network Innovation Allowance-funded
Manchester RTDS is seen as an excellent project to develop a multi-vendor testing . DeveLopment of new concepts for WAM
resource for showcasing WAMS applications platform that will demonstrate the design protection/contro L.