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DIg Silent Power Factory Learning Tutorial

Advanced Power Systems (RMIT)

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DIgSILENT Power Factory Learning Tutorial

Objectives
Objectives of this Tutorial are;
a) To familiarise with the DIgSILENT Power Factory user environment,
b) To setup a simple network model in DIgSILENT Power Factory and conduct a load-
flow simulation.

Important! This Learning Tutorial is just a guide only. You should use your intuition and
intelligence to setup the network model and conduct the load-flow simulation in the
DIgSILENT Power Factory.

DIgSILENT Power Factory Structure

Opening the Data Manager

Data manager will enable to navigate between different projects.

Click on this icon to open

the data manager

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Data Manager – Project Tree

Project Tree of the Learning Tutorial

DIgSILENT Power Factory Main Screen

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Drawing Toolbar

All the devices required to create the single-line diagram (SLD) of the network model are
available in the Drawing Toolbar.

Output Window

Click here to access the output

window

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Setting-up a Network Model

In this exercise you will setup a simple network model and perform a load-flow simulation
for the following Network Model.

Creating a New Project

In order to setup a network model first you need to create a New Project.

New Project Can be created as: File>>New>Project

Provide a suitable name for the project.

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Grid

Grid is the drawing-broad where you can create your network model.

Placing the Power System Components

First, place all the components in the DIgSILENT PF drawing-board and construct the
network model graphically.

Hints:

Placing Busbars/ Terminals:

 First click on the busbar element in the drawing toolbar, and then place the element
by clicking on the area where you want to place it in the drawing-board.

Placing the Transmission Lines and Transformer elements:

 You can connect a Transmission Line or a Transformer element by first selecting
the object from the drawing toolbar and then left click on terminals that you wish to
connect the element.

 The method above connects an orthogonal line directly between the two terminals.
To create a more complicated route, you can left click at various ’way-points’ in the
drawing-board after selecting the first terminal.

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Setting-up the Parameters for Power System Devices/ Objects

The next step is to set-up the parameters for the various devices in the network model.
You need to double-click on each device to set the parameters. The Basic Data Tab
allows you to set-up the Type. Each component must have Type and type specifies the
general parameters of components.

Setting the Parameters for Synchronous Generators

Double-click on the Synchronous Generator Element to open the parameter page. When
you navigated to the Basic Data Tab, click on Type, and then click on New Project Type.

Now you can specify the details for the generator Type

Specify the MVA capacity of the generator and voltage at the generator terminals in the
Basic Data Tab. You don’t need to change any data in the Load Flow Tab unless the
generator reactance/resistance data is specified in the datasheet.

Once the parameters for the generator type are specified, the next step is to specify the
operating details for the synchronous generator. Now navigate to the synchronous
generator (Not Type!) Load Flow Tab.

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For the Slack Bus Generator (Bus 1) Specify the Following:

For the synchronous generator (Bus 4) at the PV bus, specify the following. Make sure
you specify the type for the Synchronous Generator as the PV bus.

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Setting the Parameters for the Busbar

Double-click on the Busbar Element to open the parameter page. Set the nominal voltage
for the busbar (It is not required to specify a Type for the busbar)

The following nominal voltages applies to the test system

Busbar Voltage

T1 110 kV

T2 110 kV

T3 110 kV

T4 6 kV

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Setting the Parameters for the Transmission Lines

Double-click on the Transmission Line Element to open the parameter page. Specify the
following details in the Basic Data Tab of the Line Type. Please note that you need to
specify the line parameters in Ω/km, therefore if the parameters are specified in per unit
you should convert them to Ω/km.

Specify the Susceptance in the Load Flow tab.

Important: If the total value of the line parameters is specified in the datasheet, assume
that value as the Ω/km specification. Therefore you can specify the line length as 1 km in
the Basic Data Tab of the line.
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Setting the Parameters for the Transformer

Double-click on the Transformer Element to open the parameter page. Specify the
following data in the Basic Data tab of the transformer type.

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Important: The resistance and the reactance of the transformer is specified in the positive
sequence impedance tab as short-circuit voltage (Uk), and X/R ratio. Those parameters
can be calculated from the given X (pu) and R(pu) values as follows:

Short-circuit voltage (Uk) = X 2


 R 2  100

X
X/R ratio =
R

Specifying the Tap settings for the Transformer

First setup the tap changer configuration in the Load Flow Tab in the Transformer Type.

Then based on your tap requirement set the tap value at the transformer Load Flow Tab. If
the tap setting is at the HV side and specifies as 0.975, the tap position should be -2 for
the above tap specification.

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Setting the Parameters for Loads

Double-click on the Load Element to open the parameter page. You can directly enter
active and reactive power in the Load Flow tab in the general load. It is not necessary to
specify any Type for the load.

Setting the Parameters for the Solar-PV

Double-click on the solar-PV model and then navigate to the Basic Data Tab. Then specify
the following parameters:

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Then navigate to the Load Flow Tab and specify the following:

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Conducting a Load-Flow Simulation

Now you have specified all the data for the test system and next step is to run the load
flow.

Click the load flow button in the

Make sure you set the calculationtoolbar
method as AC Load Flow, Balanced, Positive
Sequence!

The output window will display the progress of the load flow simulation.

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The results of the load flow can be obtained from the result boxes next to the object.
However in order to obtain complete system results you need to execute the following.

Click here to see the results

You can see the load-flow results in the output window

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Viewing and Copying Results of Individual Objects

The load-flow and parameter data for each power system device category can be directly
accessed through the object filter.

Click here for Object Filter

For example, I am going to view/copy the busbar voltages. Then click terminal icon ( )
and then navigate to Flexible Data Tab. Two examples are shown below:

Results for busbars (Terminals)

Results for Synchronous Generators

This tutorial has provided you with some basic functionalities of DIgSILENT Power
Factory, but it is a very powerful power system analysis tool and it has much more
functionalities and tools to investigate power system problems/ issues.

Written by:
Dr. Lasantha Meegahapola @ RMIT-SECE
lasantha.meegahapola@rmit.edu.au
March-2016

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