Callide C Power Station's generator protection system 'ride through capabilities' for various external faults

Mowat, David (2010) Callide C Power Station's generator protection system 'ride through capabilities' for various external faults. [USQ Project]

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[Abstract]: Callide C Power Station is half owned and operated by CS Energy. It was Australia’s first supercritical coal-fired power station and was commissioned in 2001. CS Energy is a registered participant in the National Electricity Market (NEM) and has a connection agreement with the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) with specified performance standards for Callide C Power
Station that it must be capable of delivering at all times.

Australia has the largest electrical network in the world by distance and it is the specified performance standards that entire system models and contingencies are based upon. Because of this importance, if there is an incident resulting from a non compliance from CS Energy, they can incur large fines from the Australian Energy Regulator (AER). One major aspect of compliance is the ability for a connected generator to ride through external faults and maintain system voltage and frequency while the fault is cleared.

This project aims at building a model to represent a Callide C Generator and Transformer and then simulating large faults of different durations at the connection point. Using the output waveforms from the model, convert the data into the industry standard COMTRADE files so the fault scenarios can be 'played' into the protection relays to determine their stability for each fault type, starting voltage and duration.


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Item Type: USQ Project
Refereed: No
Item Status: Live Archive
Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: Historic - Faculty of Engineering and Surveying - Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering (Up to 30 Jun 2013)
Supervisors: Ahfock, Tony
Date Deposited: 04 Mar 2011 04:59
Last Modified: 03 Jul 2013 00:32
Uncontrolled Keywords: power station; coal; Biloela; Queensland; Callide C Power Station; power transformers; surge current; current fault detection
Fields of Research (2008): 09 Engineering > 0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering > 090607 Power and Energy Systems Engineering (excl. Renewable Power)
09 Engineering > 0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering > 090601 Circuits and Systems
Fields of Research (2020): 40 ENGINEERING > 4008 Electrical engineering > 400805 Electrical energy transmission, networks and systems
40 ENGINEERING > 4008 Electrical engineering > 400801 Circuits and systems
URI: https://sear.unisq.edu.au/id/eprint/18572

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