The following papers will be presented at the Conferences mentioned and will be subsequently available on this website:

 

Graceton Substation Required Disturbance Monitoring Equipment PRC-002-RFC-01  

(Winning Project - 2009 SEE Industry Excellence Awards)

by Michael S. Smith, Lead Engineer/Work Leader - Baltimore Gas and Electric

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Southeastern Electric Exchange Engineering & Operation Conference, Miami FL

 

Summary: Capitalizing on modern communication protocols in today’s IEDs allowed BGE to utilize a distributed fault recording design in efforts to meet required PRC monitoring.

 

Controlled Switching Systems (CSS)

by Tommy Salmon, Dominion Virginia Power & Bryan Gehringer, Bitronics, LLC

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Georgia Tech Fault and Disturbance Analysis Conference, Atlanta GA

 

Summary: In Controlled Switching Systems (CSS) used to operate transmission shunt capacitor banks, there is a need for a monitoring tool to gather forensic evidence of capacitor switching misoperations. This tool should integrate data available from the entire system – the controller, the breaker, protective relays, and the capacitor bank itself.  This paper describes the development of such a tool, problems that motivated taking action, misoperations that were diagnosed, equipment failures that may have been averted, and new challenges posed by wide deployment.