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IDM+ and IQ+ Fault Monitoring and software platform

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IDM+ and IQ+

IDM+ is the next generation fault monitoring family from Qualitrol 3 versions available: 3U rack with 9 analogues and 32 digitals 6U rack with 18 analogue and 64 digitals 6U rack with 36 analogue and 128 digitals Functions include DFR with slow scan, TWS FL, PMU and PQ IDM+ will replace IDM over the next 2 years IQ+ is a new client server software package with full support for legacy IDM, DFR and BEN6000 devices Data stored on an SQL database IQ+ can run on laptops or can be spread across 3 different platforms; client, server and communication managers IQ+ will support legacy TWS and DSFL devices

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Complete Multi-Function Device Post Analysis Information

Fast transient fault recording
Disturbance Monitoring Equipment (DME) Dynamic System Monitoring (DSM)

Class A Power Quality (PQ) to IEC61000-4-30

Impedance and Travelling wave Fault Location (TWS) in one device

Sequence of Events display (SOE)

Real Time Data

Streamed Phasor Measurements (PMU) to IEEE C37.118.2005 Real time values sent to SCADA

Evolving into 61850 ready substation measurement box

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Complete Multi Function Device

Benefit Cost effective solution one box Vs many A one time simple installation for many functions saving project time and money Lower full life costs (service & maintenance etc..) Improved information for business decision making

One software package collects all data sets and saves it to an

SQL database. Engineers learn one software package rather than many.

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IDM+ General Features

22-bit analogue resolution providing extra dynamic range to provide high accuracy for
monitoring load currents as well as fault currents best in class. Fault recording sampling rates selectable up to 512 samples per cycle equivalent to 25.6KHz, 12.8KHz, 6.4KHz, 3.2KHz and 1.6KHz on 50Hz systems. Can monitor high

frequency transients from FACTs devices and switching capacitor banks.

Disturbance monitoring sampling rate selectable up to 2 samples per cycle equivalent to 6.25Hz, 12.5Hz, 25Hz, 50Hz or 100Hz on 50Hz systems. Exceeds US NERC requirements for system monitoring and allows accurate analyses of all system disturbances. Extremely high accuracy 0.1% on voltages and 0.1% on currents to meet PMU and PQ requirements Three models 9, 18 or 36 analogues, and 32, 64, 128 digital inputs for flexible deployment in bay based or centralised arrangements.
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IDM+ General Features

Linux Operating System

Full solid state device no fans and industrial compact flash (4 or 8Gbytes). Extreme reliability to match todays industry requirements.

Ethernet, serial communication and USB port available as standard - USB can be used to update device configuration, upgrade firmware or download data to a standard mass memory accessory (memory stick or portable hard drive).

Fast cross triggering over the network such that IDM+ devices on the same subnet can all record synchronised data to emulate a much larger recorder.

Clock synchronisation based on standard NTP protocol and separate 1pps. Slave units can be time locked to another IDM+ designated as master or an external source. IRIGB and IRIGJ can also be used if required.

Impedance based distance to fault results displayed on MMI display

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IDM+ General Features - Options

Class A Power Quality certified to IEC 61000-4-30 Volltage Dips, Swells and Interruptions Flicker Harmonic Analyses Continuous recording Embedded reports Phasor Measurement certified to IEEE C37.118 2005

Travelling Wave fault location - 2 circuits supported per 9 / 18 block of analogue inputs
Internal modem IP forwarding meaning one telephone line can support multiple devices Internal GPS receiver time synchronise the master device to 100ns. IEC61850 protocol to accept GOOSE DFR triggers, log digital status defined in the GOOSE message and send DFR comtrade files to third party software on recipt of the appropriate commands
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Compact and Cost effective 3U Version

Feature 3U high 19 wide - 9 Analogue and 32 digital channels for one or two circuits

Advantage Compact version with high ratio of digital to analogues Ideal for bay based distributed architecture or for small sub transmission sub stations DFR / slow scan monitoring for one or two curcuits

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Two 6U Variations
Feature 6U high 19 wide Options of : 18 Analog and 64 digital channels, or 36 Analog and 128 digital channels Advantage Ideal for centralised architecture with higher channel counts

Monitoring 2 to 5 circuits per 18 analogue

inputs Easy upgrade path from18 Analogue channel device to 36 Analogue channel device
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Analogue Inputs
Each input can be AC voltage, AC current or DC selected at
time of order

AC voltage range selected from 140V, 170V, 480V and 800V full scale deflection
AC current range selected from 10A, 20A, 50A and 100A full scale deflection (200A available on request) DC range selected from 12V, 120V, 240V, 480V, 4-20mA loop DC inputs can be used for monitoring circuit breaker trip coil current (to assist in condition based maintenance), s/s battery voltage or other transducer output
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Digital Inputs
Wide ranging input from 48 to 250VDC. (24 to 250VDC optional). Selectable De-bounce Channels grouped in multiples of 8 with one common. Each group isolated from the other.

Concept of feeders and busbars

A feeder is a 3 phase current group (3I) and a busbar is a 3 phase voltage group (3V). Other channels are classed stand alone Up to 2 x busbars and 3 x feeders can be set on 9 analogue channels and grouped into 2 circuits Cabling can be 3U3I or 3U3I3I (one or two circuits)

Calculated Channels
The FR engine calculates rms magnitude, phase angle, sequence components from each 3 phase group, single phase and three phase power from each circuit and system frequency.

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Triggering and Auto Com

Up to 32 analogue triggers threshold or rate of change triggers per physical or calculated channel A power swing trigger and Boolean combinations are available Each trigger can be assigned a weight Records can be automatically sent to IQ+ depending on weight

Clock Synchronisation
Devices can be set up on a master slave basis Master can be synchronised from GPS, IRIGB, IRIGJ or NTP 100ns accuracy obtained with GPS necessary for TWS and PMU applications 1pps option required with IRIGB, IRIGJ and NTP for 1 micro second accuracy
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Example of DFR data CVT Transient

Shows operation of overvoltage protection on CVT output. Too many occurrences indicate a potential problem

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Example slow scan data

Damped 100MW oscillation recorded on a 400kV transmission system - captured by a power swing trigger Damped power oscillation together with frequency transient

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Example of slow scan to evaluate a fault

Fault had an 8 second clearance time

CB1, CB5 and CB3 all operated within 120ms of fault inception CB2 remained closed and continued to back feed the fault until it self extinguished almost 3 seconds later. Back to Index A further 5 seconds after this CB2 finally operated.

Slow scan record of fault

D1

D1

D2

D3

D2

D3

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Options - TWS fault location in the IDM+

Additional card and licence allows FL on two circuits Clock accuracy 100ns (60m accuracy) Two digital inputs per line module used to flag a line trip FL triggers associated with a line trip are flagged as high priority and can set up an auto-call to IQ+ to enact a circuit poll DTF results can be filtered on high priority Result is that dispatch controllers can automatically see results from line trips on the screen within minutes of a fault Independent gain and trigger settings 16 bit analogue resolution Sample rates selectable from 20MHz, 10MHz, 5MHz, 2.5MHz or 1.25MHz Inputs from linear couplers as per DSFL / TWS Back to Index

Example of combining DFR and TWS FL data

Example of a fault analysis with a DFR and a travelling wave fault locator (TWS)

DFR sample rate 128 samples/cycle shows high frequency transient when fault arc first struck, Helps to characterise the fault type

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Options - PMU in the IDM+

Additional licence enables phasor measurement function A phasor is a magnitude and phase angle measurement Phasors generated for each analogue channel and streamed from the ethernet port to a third party PDC (phasor data concentrator) PMU function compliant with IEEE C37.118 2005 Max frame rate 25 or 30Hz for 50 or 60Hz power systems An 18 channel block can generate phasors from 5 circuits assuming a common busbar voltage. Future development (2012)
Increase max frame rates to 50 or 60Hz Add option for positive, negative and zero sequence phasors from 3 phase triplets Add up to 32 digital status inputs to the PMU data packets Add analogue set values (power, rms etc) to the PMU data packets Back to Index Add better dynamic response to respond to expected changes in the IEEE spec

Options Class A PQ in the IDM+

Additional licence enables PQ function Class A Power Quality IEC 61000-4-30 gap less measurements

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Options Class A PQ in the IDM+

Continuous recording up to 1014 parameters (min, max, avg) for 10min interval (frequency in 10 seconds, Plt 2 hours Continuous recording - free interval up to 256 parameters (min, max, avg) for customized time

interval (1 min 24 hours)

Triggered recordings when other PQ thresholds are exceeded Embedded reports in IDM+ - histograms, EN50160 based on

DSI logging
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IQ+ Master Station Software

Single software to support IDM+, TWS FL8 fault locators and all legacy PQ, DFR and TWS devices. Import facility to transfer existing data and settings from legacy software packages like Replay Plus, QIS and Base Station 2000 Design criteria is to provide information and not data Provision of automatic analyses and alerts via email Provision of standard PQ reports and custom reports already available Automatic analysis of DFR records will be available by the middle of 2011 Licensing will restrict access to data sets not required

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IQ+ replaces Replayplus

IQ+ is a new client server software package used to communicate with an IDMe. IQ+ also has full support for legacy IDM and LSU device

ReplayPlus

IQ+

Replaced by

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IQ+ Software deployments

Feature software configuration
Single PC deployment Client Client Manager / Server / Server deployment / additional Communication

deployment

Advantage
Software able to work for small monitoring systems as well as for big systems Data download workload can be split between different hardware servers

Benefit
Support for very big systems as well as small systems
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Parts of iQ+
iQ+ Server
1 application The iQ+ Server is the core of iQ+.
It downloads data from devices It writes and reads into the SQL database iQ+ Client applications log into the Server

iQ+ Communication Manager

1 or more applications Optional application to spread the data download workload for big systems

iQ+ Client
1 or more applications

Microsoft SQL 2005 or 2008 data base

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Single Machine Deployment

Single Machine Deployment Suitable for 1 50 devices Single User

iQ+ Client iQ+ Server Communicati on Manager SQL Server

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Distributed Deployment Single Server

iQ+ Client iQ+ Client
Single Server Deployment

1 3

Suitable for 1 50 devices

iQ+ Server Communication Manager SQL Server

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Distributed Deployment Separated SQL Server

iQ+ Client 1

SQL Database (Server 2)

Suitable for 50+ devices PC 1 & 2 iQ+ Client

iQ+ Client 2

TCP/IP

Server 1

Server 1 iQ+ Server with Communication Manager Server 2 SQL Server Database
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Distributed Deployment Multi-Communication Managers

iQ+ Client 1
TCP/IP

iQ+ Client 2

Suitable for 50+ devices PC 1 & 2 iQ+ Client Server 1 iQ+ Server with Communication Manager SQL Database Server 2 iQ+ Communication Manager Desktop (High end PC) iQ+ Communication Manager
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Server 2

Server 1
TCP/IP TCP/IP

Desktop

IQ+ Data Analysis

Features in data analysis
Triggered Recording Continuous Recording Reports PQ Overview Fault Location System Overview Health Check

Benefit
Easy to use
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IQ+ Architecture

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IQ+ Main Working Screen

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Main Screen explained

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IQ+ for FR

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DFR Viewer

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TWS FL Application

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PQ Application

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IQ+ Power system overview

Feature
Single screen power system overview (patent pending). Separate screen for DFR, FL and PQ activity

Advantage
Provides fast, customized information of entire power system in one single screen
Even for systems with hundreds of devices

Matrix with links to problem areas (color coded) of your entire power system. Particularly useful for PQ.
Compliance reports Sags/dips, swells, interruptions Steady state records

Benefit
Save time access new important data
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Power system overview - continued

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Red filed: threshold exceeded or report incompliant Green field: parameter or report within limits Yellow field: no data available (i.e. not recorded or not downloaded)

IQ+ Power system overview PQ Example Feature

Cross links from matrix to event list, open records then Cross links from matrix to 10 min PQ plot

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IQ+ Power System Overview FL example

Logs number of DTF results from each circuit over a given time period. Able to drill down from a red square to get more detail BENEFIT quickly see what circuits had fault activity and when.
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IQ+ System health check

Feature System health check Advantage Single screen summary of system and device health Communication data download okay? Time synchronization was time sync lost temporary? UPS status is UPS working? Power supply failure Was power supply down? Did device reboot? Internal memory - reached critical status (overload)? Percentage successful communication performance Notification via e-mail

Benefit Fix communication infrastructure problems before data is lost Conduct UPS maintenance when needed
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IQ+ System health check

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IQ+ Health Check drilling down to more detail

Logs abnormal occurrences: Clock synch issues Comms issues Standing alarms Able to drill down from a red square to get more detail BENEFIT identify and fix defects before important information is lost
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IDME Fault Monitoring and software platform

To be launched October 2011

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IDME Upgrade
IDME(evolution) is an upgrade path from an IDM to the next generation fault monitoring family from Qualitrol IDM T3 and T5 fault recorders can be upgraded to the IDME versions. Aim is to upgrade whilst maintaining existing field wiring

Upgrade

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IDME Upgrade
Upgrade from IDM to IDME involves replacing the following boards
CPU board Analogue board Digital (event) board Front panel MMI
VT/CT Boards and PSU retained

Re-calibration will be required after the upgrade

T3 CPU,Digital & Analog boards changed

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IDME Upgrade improve CT performance

For increased linearity and accuracy on current channels a Taehwatran TS16L split core CT can be fitted over the primary conductor and connected to the rear green connector bypassing the internal CT.

The original IDM internal CT can be left in service but not used no need to touch the original CT cabling
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IDME Upgrade alternative CT replacement

A project will be started to fit an IDM+ CT to an IDM VT / CT board.

This will provide improved CT performance without the need for external split core CTs BUT will require that the CT and VT wiring is disconnected from the rear of the IDM whilst the VT/CT board is modified or replaced. Some Utilities are OK with this arrangement as they can use test switches to short the CT wiring and can upgrade without the need for a line outage.

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