AEL-GAD-01S Pumping Storage Power Plant Application, with SCADA

PUMPING STORAGE POWER PLANT APPLICATION, WITH SCADA - AEL-GAD-01S

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The Pumping Storage Power Plant Application, with SCADA, "AEL-GAD-01S", has been developed by Edibon to study the pumped storage power stations and their applications.

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General Description

The Pumping Storage Power Plant Application, with SCADA, "AEL-GAD-01S", has been developed by Edibon to study the pumped storage power stations and their applications.

Pumping Storage Power Plants Applications are a type of hydroelectric energy storage used by electric power systems for load balancing. The method stores energy in the form of gravitational potential energy of water, pumped from a lower elevation reservoir to a higher elevation. Low-cost off-peak electric power is used to run the pumps. During periods of high electrical demand, the stored water is released through turbines to produce electric power. Although the losses of the pumping process makes the plant a net consumer of energy overall, the system increases revenue by selling more electricity during periods of peak demand, when electricity prices are highest.

The AEL-GAD-01S includes all the necessary modules to simulate and study the operation of a hydroelectric pumping power plants and it different elements. This application includes a synchronous generator, a servo machine and an electric motor with dynamic brake.

The generator in combination with the servo machine allows us to simulate and control the generation through the multifunction relay/ controller as if it was a real representation of the generation stage of a hydroelectric power plant. Furthermore, the squirrel cage induction motor and the dynamic brake system, in addition to the frequency control we apply over it, allows us to represent the pumping stage of a pumped storage power plant. As a whole, this application permits simulating in a laboratory scale a real pumped storage plant.

The energy produced by the synchronous generator is consumed by a three-phase induction motor with a dynamic brake which in conjunction with the SCADA let us represent simulated energy demand curves as a real portrayal of the energy consumption of a population nucleus or a whole electric system.

Control modules are included in order to accomplish a safe synchronization, protection and accuracy control.

This application includes an SCADA Control Software to simulate how the electrical energy is produced and stored. This software permits understand how the potential energy of water is converted into electrical power which is then fed back into the grid.

In addition, the SCADA control software includes programming functions for optimum management of the pumping station. This software allows the representation of a real demand curve (simulated) for subsequent energy planning from it, thus reproducing the energy management of a real network.

The "GAD-01S-UB" is the base unit of the "AEL-GAD-01S" application.

Exercises and guided practices

GUIDED PRACTICAL EXERCISES INCLUDED IN THE MANUAL

  1. How pumping storage power plants operate.
  2. Characteristic curves and electrical machines performances.
  3. Hydropower plant functioning as generator.
  4. Hydropower plant functioning as pumped storage plant.
  5. Study of the power consumption curves and the regulation of a hydroelectric plant involves in the grid.
  6. Start and synchronization of synchronous generator.
  7. Power regulation: both in generator and motor modes.
  8. Semi-automatic active and reactive power control.
  9. Smart grid integration of pumped storage power plants.
  10. Fully-automatic compensation for externally measured active and reactive power.
  11. SCADA open and closed-loop system control.
  12. Transference of manual to automatic voltage regulation operations.
  13. Transference of manual to automatic frequency regulation operations.
  14. Studying of the power factor regulation of synchronous generator in parallel grid operation.
  15. Studying of turbine regulation (frequency control) in parallel grid mode.
  16. Analysis of active and reactive power.
  17. Automatic control of active power.
  18. Studying of the micro-grids.
  19. Overcurrent protection.
  20. Overvoltage and undervoltage protection of the synchronous generator.
  21. Reverse power protection.
  22. Plotting of the demand curve forecast with SCADA software for the subsequent planning of the production capacity of a pumping hydroelectric plant.
  23. Operations as a power grid manager for demand/generation planning. Parameterization of the maximum and minimum power thresholds of the hydroelectric plant for energy injection at peak times and for pumping at off-peak times.
  24. Smart energy management for monitoring changes in the actual demand curve. Regulation performed by the pumping hydroelectric plant in the system for changes in the demand curve.

Some practical exercises possibilities with the base unit GAD-01S-UB and the basic synchroscope:

  1. Visualization of parameters through a synchroscope for the study of the synchronism condition between the generator and the grid.

Some practical exercises possibilities with the base unit GAD-01S-UB and GAD-01S-K1:

  1. Study of the consumption of isolated loads from the three stagesof a resistive commutable load.
  2. Study of the consumption of isolated loads from the three stages of an inductive commutable load.
  3. Study of the consumption of isolated loads from the three stages of a capacitive commutable load.
  4. Compensation of reactive power and adjustment of the power factor by means of a capacitive commutable load bank.

MORE PRACTICAL EXERCISES TO BE DONE WITH THE UNIT

  1. Many students view results simultaneously. To view all results in real time in the classroom by means of a projector or an electronic whiteboard.
  2. The Computer Control System with SCADA allows a real industrial simulation.
  3. This unit is totally safe as uses mechanical, electrical and electronic, and software safety devices.
  4. This unit can be used for doing applied research.
  5. This unit can be used for giving training courses to Industries even to other Technical Education Institutions.
  6. Several other exercises can be done and designed by the user.

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