First Below Ground

Traction Substation at Church Road

(New Delhi) Receiving Substation
A case Study
By:

Anoop Kumar Gupta, Director (Electrical)

Mahendra Kumar, Chief General Manager

This presentation covers -

About DMRC
Progress/achievements so far
Status of Phase III
Operational Highlights

Power Supply Arrangement in DMRC

Power Supply requirement
Power System Architecture
Contract Demand and Energy Consumption

Construction of below ground Substation

Challenges faced
Layout Plan
Glimpses of the site
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About DMRC
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DELHI METRO RAIL CORPORATION (DMRC)

Set up in May95 under the Indian Company Act.
A joint venture between the GOI and the GNCT Delhi,
with equal equity.

DMRC has the responsibility for construction and

operation of Delhi Metro.
A Master Plan had been drawn up for Delhi Metro
expansion, consisting of 12 lines, covering 420 kms to
be completed by 2021 in four Phases.
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DMRC PROGRESS/ ACHIEVEMENTS SO FAR

Phase-I 65 kms Completed in 7 years and 3 months
(2 years &
9 months ahead of schedule).
Phase-II 125 kms -- Though double the length,
completed in half the period taken for Phase-I, and five
months ahead of schedule.
Phase III - 136 km Sanctioned in Sept 11 and has been
committed to the Govt. for completion in 4.5 years.
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Phase III
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STATUS OF PHASE-III
Further expansion by 136 kms. 110 km (50 km U/G) in
Delhi & 26 km in Haryana (14 km) Line-6 Badarpur to
YMCA Chowk, Faridabad & (12 km) Mundka to
Bahadurgarh.
The contracts are in place and the work is in progress.

For the first section Trial run was flagged off in

December 2013 for the CTST- Mandi house corridor
of phase III

STATUS OF PHASE-III

Phase-III likely to be completed by 2016

On completion of Phase-III Delhi will have a
metro network covering 326 kms.

Delhi is the fastest growing metro network

in the world outside China.

Operational Highlights

OPERATION HIGHLIGHTS
DMRC is having 142 Stations and 190 Km in operation. This is
including high speed Airport Express line having 6 stations
and 23 km section.
About 2800 train trips a day with 208 train sets (1100
Coaches) on 6 lines.
Each train used to consist of 4 coaches. With the increase in
commuters, the trains are progressively being lengthened to
6 coaches and finally to 8 coaches. We have already near
about 100 six car sets.
Average Ridership more than 2.3 million passengers per
10
day. (meaning about 1,00,000 vehicles off the road)
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OPERATION HIGHLIGHTS
Frequency during peak hours 2 m 40 sec on 2 out of 6 lines
(on other lines 3 to 5 mts).
DMRC has around 7,000 employees, besides contract staff.
Op. Ratio 62%
Fare : From
8/- to
30/-. The system is making an
operational profit from Day-1.
DMRC is able to service and pay back the loans despite no
subsidy from the Government and the Fare Structure being
lowest in the world except Kolkata.
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OPERATION HIGHLIGHTS
20% of DMRCs revenue is from Non-operational sources
mainly real estate development and advertisements.
The system is fully Barrier Free for Physically challenged.
The trains operate from 6 AM to 11 PM.
DMRC has introduced feeder bus short loop services to help
the commuters.
Punctuality measured with a least count of 60 sec and the
punctuality percentage has been above 99%.
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DELHI GATE

KARKAR DUMA

PREET VIHAR

NIRMAN VIHAR

JAMA MASJID

LAXMI NAGAR

LAL QUILA

YAMUNA BANK

DWARKA
DABRI MOR
DHAULA KUAN
DHSRATH PURI

DELHI AEROCITY

NOIDA CITY CENTRE

ASHRAM

SRINIVASPURI

PALAM

GOLF COURSE

BOTANICAL GARDEN

BOTANICAL GARDEN

DWARKA SEC 21

KALINDI KUNJ

PHASEI
PHASEII
PhaseIII
Total

=
=
=
=

65.1Km
125.0 Km
136.0 Km

326.0 Km

Power Supply Arrangements

in DMRC
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 Electricity is required for:

Running of trains,
Station services
Power requirements are determined by peak-hour demands
of power for traction and auxiliary applications.
Broad estimation of auxiliary and traction power demand is
made based on :
Regeneration by rolling stock Up to 35%
Elevated station load about 500 KW
underground station is assessed at about 3.2 MW

 From the reliability point of view Power supply at 220 kV, 132
kV or 66 kV level is taken from the Grid Sub Stations of
DTL/UPPCL/HVPN.
At the RSS it is stepped down to 25 kV to feed the OHE with
single phase traction transformers and 33 kV with 3 phase
auxiliary transformers to feed the auxiliary requirements. Both
are with 100% standby capacity.
33 kV is distributed through duplicate ring feeders along the
corridor and at every station it is stepped down to 400 volts
(3 phase supply) through dry type transformers. This
substation is termed as Auxiliary Substation (ASS) in our
system. This is distributed in the station to meet the power
supply requirements of the stations.

POWER SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE

DMRC is taking power supply through two incomers

through underground cables.
In case of failure in one incoming circuit the other
cable will be able to take full load.
Power failure from one RSS , adjacent RSS can take
full load
Failure of one transformer, the standby can take the
full load.
Thus adequate redundancy has been built in at all stages
from the reliability point of view
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POWER SUPPLY IN DMRC

Incoming power supply from Grid 220/132/66000KV

Transformers

25000
volts

33000
volts

33000
volts
To DMRC line

25000
volts

CONTRACT DEMAND
CONTRACT DEMAND & ENERGY CONSUMPTION SINCE 2006-07

S. No.

AS ON

1
2
3
4
5
6

31.03.2007
31.03.2008
31.03.2009
31.03.2010
31.03.2011
31.03.2012

CONTRACT DEMAND
in MVA
47
52
52
75.5
115
130

31.03.2013

138

193.6%

AS ON 01.08.2013

141

200%

% increase

10.6 %
10.6%
58.5%
144.6%
176.5%

ENERGY CONSUMPTION
% increase

AMOUNT PAID
in million

S.No

Financial Year

MU

2006-2007

189.52

2007-2008

199.61

10.5

514.80

2008-2009

220.14

16.15

707.20

2009-2010

254.49

34.33

832.29

2010-2011

422.73

123.05

1390.05

2011-2012

577.56

204.7

2139.24

2012-2013

596.69

214.84

3198.61

2013-14
upto Oct-13

410.33

271.17

2554.09

480.60

RSS IN PHASE I
LINE

Incoming
Voltage

RSS

LINE-1

KASHMERE GATE

220 kV

LINE-1

RITHALA

LINE-2

Rss in phase-1

66 kV

NEW DELHI

66 kV

LINE-3

DWARKA

66 kV

LINE-3

SUBHASH NAGAR

66 kV

LINE-3

INDRAPRASTHA

66 kV

TOTAL

6 SUBSTATIONS

RSS IN PHASE II
LINE

RSS

Incoming Voltage

LINE-2

JAHANGIRPURI,
CHHATARPUR
SUSHANT LOK (HCC)

66 kV
66 kV
66 kV

LINE-3

BOTANICAL GARDEN

132 kV

LINE-5

MUNDKA

66kV

LINE-6

SARITA VIHAR
PARK STREET (CTST)

66 kV
66 kV

AIRPORT LINE PARK STREET (CTST)

AIRPORT

66 kV
66 kV

TOTAL

8 SUBSTATIONS

STATUS OF RSS IN PHASE III

LINE

RSS

Incoming
Voltage

STATUS

LINE-5 MIE DEPOT RSS 132 kV Contract opening on 10.12.13

LINE-6 KASHMERE
GATE
FARIDABAD

220 kV Power from existing Cables of

Phase I RSS of DMRC
66 kV Work in process

LINE -7 MUKUNDPUR

66 kV

NEW Rss in phase-3

DHAULA KUAN

66 kV

INA

66 kV

VINOD NAGAR 66 kV
YAMUNA VIHAR 66 kV

Gopalpur DTL by 2016-17

contingency from JP RSS
One from Ridge valley + One
Park street
From RK Puram RSS of DMRC
for One Circuit
Two Circuits from Gazipur
Power not available at Harsh
Vihar DTL

To be contd.

Contd.

LINE
LINE -8

TOTAL

RSS

Incoming
Voltage

STATUS

KALKAJI

66 kV

One from Sarita Vihar DTL and

2nd LILO of Existing

RKPURAM

66 kV

One Ckt from Vasant Kunj and

second incomer being taken to
INA RSS

PALAM

66 kV

No Ckt from Papankalan 3 Existing Subhas nagar to be

made LILO and 2nd ckt when
PPN 3 comes up

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AUGMENTATION WORKS of RSS IN PHASE - III

LINE

RSS

LINE-2

JAHANGIRPURI
(One Trafo of 131 MVA -220/66 kV)

LINE-3

BOTANICAL GARDEN
(2 nos 25 kV bays added)

Construction of below
Ground Substation

Construction of the Sub-Station at Church Road

Line-6 and Airport Express Line in phase II were to be
fed from this RSS
The incoming supply was to come from Park Street
S/s of DTL 1.6 kms away
Plot size of 5000 sqmts
Tender was awarded for a normal RSS and materials
procured
Being close to Rastrapati Bhawan it required
clearance from Central vista Committee
CVC desired that no part of the substation should be
above ground, except boundary wall
To be contd

Contd

The building housing GIS Hall and Control room shall

be 0.3 m high only from the road level.
The top of the roof may be landscaped to present a
green appearance and the height of solid portion of
boundary wall should be 1m high only
Baffle wall only 1.2 m high from road level
The layout was redesigned with incoming 66 kV cable
gallery at -9 m, GIS hall at -7 m level and transformer
yard at -6m level.

LAYOUT PLAN

ELEVATION

ELEVATION

Challenges faced

Challenges faced
Maintaining the clearances both in the vertical as well as
horizontal direction in the transformer bay was required.
Ventilation for the underground substation- Forced
ventilation system for the equipment rooms was adopted Three AHUs (2 Main + 1 Standby) have been provided
considering 15 Air changes per hour.
Water drainage system for this catchment area. The cables
trenches were designed with hangers at a height of 300 mm
from the bottom on which the cables were laid and the
bottom portion was used for draining the water to the water
tank with natural gravity towards the water collection tank.
To be contd

Contd

Smoke detectors have been provided in the cable trenches in

the - 9 m area and the yard.

Precision type Floor mounted Air-conditioning system has

been provided for the cooling of Control & Relay room and
the server rooms with the arrangement of two main and one
standby AC units
Water pumping arrangement has been made such that the
system can pump out 1 lakh liters of water in one hour
keeping in account the catchment area. Automation has
been provided with three pumps. The first pump operates at
25%, second pump at 50% and the third pump at 85% of the
water being filled up in the water tank.
To be contd

Contd

The soil resistivity of the substation indicated that soil is

having three layers with upper layer having low resistivity,
middle layer having high resistivity and bottom layer again low
resistivity.
Upper strata is having low soil resistivity of 73 ohm-m, Middle
strata is having very high soil resistivity of 783 ohm-m and
Lower strata is again low resistivity of 63.2 ohm-m.
For better performance of grounding system, grid is placed in
low resistivity soil and analysis has been done using Auto Grid
Pro software package. Satellite earthing had to be adopted
since mother earth was not available for the electrodes
To be contd

Contd

A DG set of capacity 125 kVA has been provided at a higher

platform to meet out the emergency power requirement in
case of power supply failure to run the ancillary system of the
substation.
Substation Automation based on Intelligent Electronic Device
on IEC 61850 has been provided for control and protection of
the system.
This substation is first of its kind with unique layout below
ground level.
Each bay comprises of one circuit breaker and associated
disconnectors, earth switches and instrument transformers.
To be contd

Contd

At bay level, the IEDs provide all bay level functions like
control (commands outputs), monitoring (status indications,
measured values).
The IEDs are directly connected to the switchgear avoiding
the need for additional interposing of transducers.
Each bay control IED is independent of the others and its
functioning is not affected by any fault occurring in any of the
other bay control units of the substation.
The data exchange among bay level IEDs, and between bay
level and substation level take place via dual fiber-optic inter
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bay bus according to IEC 61850-8-1 protocol.

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Station Level
Human Machine Interface enables local station control and
monitoring through the vendor software package compatible
with IEC 61850.
DMRC Substation bays are limited the bay bus arrangement
provides independent station-to-bay and bay-to-bay data
exchange.
Substation Configuration Language (SCL) facilitates
integration of the system by the users/operators and can be
used without detailed knowledge of real-time systems.
An authorization mechanism has been provided to prevent
system access to unauthorized users

OCC Level

IEC 61850 signals are converted to IEC 608705-101 signals through a software based
gateway for communication from the substation
to the OCC.

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Glimpses of the Site

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Before execution of the Below ground

View of the Rashtrapati Bhawan

CLEARANCES

PLACEMENT OF THE DG SET

GIS Hall With Ventilation Arrangement

Views of landscape of the RSS

Full View of the RSS

CONCLUSION

Space has been a constraint for all the urban

cities. Now attempt is being made to
accommodate the RSS in a smaller space by using
GIS for the incomer yard, 33kV network and the
25 kV traction network. In one of the substations
even 25 kV AIS is being designed to make it
indoor below the control room from the cost
economics point of view . Study is under progress
to consider Hybrid Substation also where space is
a constraint.

Thank You !!

DMRC Ltd.
Metro Bhawan,
Fire Brigade Lane,
Barakhamba Road,
New Delhi - 110 003.

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