New generation of Tavrida Electric User Software TELUS 3.0.

V.Ossipov - Product Specialist of Tavrida Electric Export

Abstract
Tavrida Electric (TEL) has developed a new
generation of Tavrida Electric User Software -
TELUS 3.0. This new version of TELUS
contains such features as Network editor, Fault
location, Autocoordination, Autocorrection,
Simulation, etc. This paper describes the basic
features of the TELUS 3.0.
Introduction
The Tavrida Electric User Software (TELUS)
system provides configuration and control of the
MPM (Main Processing Module) of recloser
Control cubicle features and functionality.
Compared to the previous version, this new
version of TELUS has been fundamentally
updated to help TELUS users solve the following
problems:
Complexity of protection setting
development.
Usually the development of protection device
settings is a multi-stage complex process that
demands a significant amount of highly skilled
specialists time. What Tavrida Electric wants to
introduce is a highly automated process that does
not require special skills to calculate special
modes of the network, fault modes, etc.
Testing of the
operation of
microprocessor
relays in a real
network
situations is
usually
impossible.
Tavrida Electric
has concentrated
on pre-installation
testing of
protection devices
with the entire system of protection elements and
their settings. This means that TEL has made it
possible to test the virtual (software) model of a
protection device with settings that have been
chosen, in any network fault situation.
Fault location problem
Up to 50% of the time required to restore normal
power delivery in case of a fault in a distribution
network is time required to find the fault. With
our new generation of Reclosers with RC-02
control cubicles and TELUS user software this
time can be reduced to an absolute minimum.
Complexity of in-field device setting writing
and log reading
The process of sending-receiving device settings
and logs was made as simple as possible.
Actually now these processes are nearly
transparent to the user.
Network editor
The protection settings automatic calculating
algorithms are included in the new version of the
Tavrida Electric user software TELUS 3.0. The
user is provided with a special visual-style editor
(Network editor), which allows him to draw
feeder schematics (Fig. 1) and specify the
protection
setting
calculating
criteria.
The
Network
editor
window
consists of
the toolbar
in the top
part of the
window and
the main
Fig. 1 Network editor window (example)
area for visual editing of the feeder diagram. The
diagram can be adjusted at any time by selecting
one or several objects (sources, wires, poles,
loads, fuses, capacitor banks, cables, step-up
transformers) with the mouse and dragging them
to any desired location. All links and lines
between objects change their direction
automatically.
The user can put an object on the diagram by
selecting the corresponding toolbar button and
clicking with the mouse on the diagram. After an
object is placed on the diagram, it has the default
values of all properties. The user is allowed to
edit the values of any setting of any object.
Protection settings
After these schematics are ready, the user can
start using the capability of automated setting
generation.
The settings of all protection elements of all
reclosers installed on the feeder can be found in
the Protection branch of the feeder. Protection
settings are stored as 4 independent groups of
settings (Fig. 2).
Any time one of the 4 groups is set as active,
others do not take part in the protection. Any
group can be selected as active either locally
(with the recloser control module MMI panel) or
remotely (with the SCADA system or remote
TELUS).
The settings of the group with the same number
as all reclosers of that feeder can be viewed or
edited in a single window. Group of protection
settings window consists of the 2 parts:
Autocoordination frame and Protection frame.
(Fig. 3)
Protection settings can be set-up under three
different modes: Independent, Autocoordination
and Autocorrection.
In the Independent mode, all settings of all
protection elements become fully editable
without restriction. Tests are automatically
performed and each value is checked to assure
that it fits into the valid range consistant with
each type of setting.
Autocoordination and Autocorrection modes
allow the set-up of protection settings of all
reclosers automatically or semi-automatically.
In the Autocoordination mode, it is only
required to specify the settings of automated
protection coordination between reclosers and

Fig. 2 Recloser settings window
Fig. 3 Protection settings window
(Autocoordination frame).
some criteria for the protection on the particular
feeder.
The settings which the autocoordination
algorithm has calculated become non-editable
and are marked with the blue labels.
Some settings cannot be calculated
automatically, as they are normally a matter of
preference, and rules of the particular distribution
network. They include the settings of the
extremely quick
OC3
(Overcurrent), EF3
(Earth fault)
elements, UF
(Underfrequency)
element, settings
of auto-reclose
elements (AR
OC/EF, AR SEF,
AR UV and AR
UF) and live-line
maintenance
supporting elements (OCLL, EFLL).
In the Autocorrection mode, the user can edit
almost all settings, but the autocoordination
algorithm will be called automatically for the
following:
the input will be checked to satisfy the valid
range for the setting edited;
some settings of the same recloser and of
other reclosers will possibly be automatically
adjusted to leave the rules of protection
coordination and zone reservation valid.
Settings which were automatically adjusted get a
yellow background.
In both the Autocoordination and the
Autocorrection modes, auto-reclose settings of
only one recloser are editable: the algorithm calls
the auto-reclose elements of all reclosers on a
feeder to have equal settings.
If, during the editing (with either Independent,
Autocoordination or Autocorrection mode), some
value was set, which is not compatible with some
other values of settings, the incompatible settings
are marked with red; the protection settings
group (if this group of settings is marked as In
use) in this case cannot be marked as Ready.
A new type of flexible time-current characteristic
(TCC) has been designed to support the
autocoordination algorithm. This characteristic
(named TEL A - TEL Automatic) is supported
by the new generation of Tavrida Electric
recloser control cubicles (RC02). It delivers
minimum possible
tripping times if
TCCs for
downstream
devices as well as
time and current
grades are known
(Fig.4 ).
The time-current
characteristics of
the slow, fast and
sensitive elements
of the overcurrent
and the earth-fault protections are then
automatically calculated almost immediately.
Simulation
When the schematic (or diagram) of a particular
feeder is ready and some protection settings are
selected (either automatically or manually), it is

Fig. 4 Set of slow phase current TTCs for
reclosers 1-4 calculated with the aid of the
autocoordination algorithm for the feeder
pictured in Fig. 1

Fig. 5 Phase A, B and C currents seen by R3 (Fig. 1) during
clearance of sustained downstream earth fault.
quite easy to see how the reclosers will act in
case of a fault. The user just selects the duration
of simulation, clicks the Simulation button and
the entire fault scenario is there: the user can see
currents, voltages, reclosers event logs, etc (Fig.
5).
After running a simulation, the dynamic behavior
of all devices (fuses and reclosers) for the
particular fault is calculated. By setting different
fault types at different locations, one can test the
correctness of recloser operation.
Fault location
Distance protection deals with a limited number
of simplified fault types. In reality, a short circuit
fault represents a dynamically changed set of six
non-zero conductivities (Fig. 6).
This assumption may result in substantial errors,
especially with fault evolution during its life.
Tavrida Electric has developed a new algorithm
that is based on the general representation of the
fault and is free of this disadvantage.
After one or several reclosers on the feeder see
the fault currents or voltages, the recloser which
is closest to the fault tries to struggle with it by
means of autoreclose cycles. If it fails, it comes
to the lockout state and sends the results of its
last measurements to the Control Room. The
TELUS software system predicts the possible
location of the fault and displays it on the feeder
diagram, along with the predicted values of
contact resistances in all phases.
Lets put the fault for example between A and B-
phase with a 1 Ohm resistance and see how the
fault could be identified by a Fault Location
algorithm. The algorithm sees 2 possible places
for a fault (Fig. 7), because for recloser R2 these
2 branches are equivalent, and it physically
cannot discriminate between these 2 places for
the fault. If the recloser is close to the fault, it is
not a big problem. In the worst case it still does
not need to search for the fault across the entire
feeder, but just check 2 places.
The tests show that under real-world conditions,
due to feeder loading fluctuations, measurement
errors and temperature changes, the worst error
in finding the fault location is 1 to 2 kilometers.
These results were obtained on feeders with a
backbone length of about 100 km. This system is
very good for fault isolation in distribution
systems that have wide load fluctuations and
complex feeder schematics (like in transmission
line systems where such algorithms are quite
common already).
This feature allows sending the mobile linesmen
to the known segment of 1 or 2 kilometers length
to fix the fault, which type is also already known.
This, instead of searching for an unknown fault
across the entire 100-kilometer feeder with all its
branches. In the case of normal temperature and

Fig. 6 Non-zero conductivities
determine fault type.


Fig. 7 Determination of fault location
normal load, the length of a
possible fault region diminishes to
a few dozen meters.
User-defined Signals editor
(UDDG)
The Tavrida Electric RC02
generation of recloser control boxes
supports generation of special
signals. Another graphical editor
for that purposes exists in TELUS.
It allows (easily just with your
mouse) the drawing of the
schematic of a special signal to be generated by
the RC.
For example, a simple circuit is shown (Fig. 8)
which generates an alarm signal when the current
in either of 3 phases exceeds the level of 50
Amps.
This signal can be assigned to be outputted either
though the SCADA system, through the I/O
modules, or both. Alternatively this signal can be
ordered to be stored in one of the recloser logs.
Conclusions
So, all the above stated problems can be solved
with the aid of this new generation of Tavrida
Electric User software, that provides the
following possibilities:
Enter the schematic of any feeder
Automatic calculation of recloser
protection settings with by hand
correction possibility
Electronic (software) simulation of
different fault types
Quite precise determination of fault
location
Simple procedure of composingspecial
signals to be generated by the RC






References
1. Chaly, K. Gutnik, A. Testoedov, A.
Astrakhantsev, Autocoordination of
protection settings of series reclosers.
Tavrida Electric, Moscow, Russia, Marshala
Birjuzova str, 1.
2. TELUS 03.01.00E User Guide




Fig. 8 UDDG editor window.