Automated Reporting and Modeling of Simulation Software

Maintaining an up-to-date short-circuit model is essential to obtain accurate study results for relay engineers. Manually building and maintaining a model is both time- and labor-intensive. As settings for new and existing devices are continually being issued, a tremendous amount of time may be past before those changes are properly reflected in the short-circuit software.

The CORE® Data Manager tools can also automatically create customized relay settings summary reports for large quantities of relay data, saving considerable time and engineering costs. Other components of the CORE® Data Manager include: Integrated Capacity Assessment Protection Report, Firmware ID Report, Minimum Trip Report, PRC-023 Compliance Evaluation, and CIP-010 Compliance Evaluation.​

Automated Data Import (ADI) Module

The ADI is one of the CORE® Data Manager modules that automatically extracts protection data from settings repositories, interprets protection settings and functions, and implement protection model into a short-circuit software tool. Utility’s protection philosophy is integrated into the ADI to enable the selection of protection schemes and the correct relay settings to be imported to the short-circuit model. The ADI can even implement complex communication-based protection schemes in several power systems protection software tools. ​

Relay mapping intelligence understands settings from many relay manufacturers: SEL (.RDB, .MDB), GE (.URS), ABB (.TPU), Siemens (XML), and many more.

Advanced Analysis and Tracking of Automated Protection Studies

In order to address the growing complexity of modern protective devices, Quanta Technology has developed the CORE® suite of software tools. The CORE® suite of tools addresses the new challenges related to Compliance, Operations, Reliability, and Engineering that are faced by transmission system operators due to the evolving nature of power grids and associated regulatory requirements. To maintain the reliability and resiliency of the grid, power system protection engineers must routinely simulate and analyze protection system behavior using protection simulation software applications. Comprehensive protection studies on a wide range of system conditions produce extensive amounts of raw data that quickly becomes overwhelming to comprehend. CORE® tools have been developed to address one of the main challenges faced by protection engineers when using the automation capabilities of software tools for conducting advanced studies: efficient processing and interpreting large volumes of data.

CORE® System Analyzer tools

Quanta Technology’s CORE® System Analyzer tool enables protection engineers to utilize protection software applications to their maximum capabilities through automated processing and interpretation of study data, providing the user with summarized results in a condensed, readable report. This tool allows protection engineers to focus on actual issues rather than performing hundreds of studies manually and managing massive data sets generated by simulation output. ​

The CORE® System Analyzer capabilities include protection settings review and compliance evaluation studies for both transmission and distribution utilities. ​ The CORE® System Analyzer interfaces with the major power systems simulation software applications used for protection studies including CAPE, ASPEN OneLiner, CYME, and Synergi Electric.​

CORE® System Analyzer Tracking Database​

The CORE®System Analyzer tool has the option of integrating a tracking database. This capability can be applied to provide an intelligent solution for organizing protection studies and to support regulatory compliance requirements such as NERC PRC-027-1.

The added features include: ​

• System equipment tracking using protection simulation software​
• Record-keeping of protection studies associated with each type of equipment​
• Enabling team members to access the study results concurrently and collaborate in analyzing the study results​
• Allowing utilities to perform wide-area protection coordination (WAPC) studies in-house​
• Support of NERC PRC-027-1 Compliance: tracking ​base-case fault currents, bus-fault comparison and coordination studies, and generation of audit-ready reports at any time. ​

Customized to Meet Your Requirements

Quanta Technology believes in providing solutions that directly align with customer needs and, therefore, allows for customization of CORE® System Analyzer tool. Customers have the option to customize its features specific to their internal processes and needs. ​