Due to the increasing development of renewables in power systems,the requirements for phasor measurement units(PMUs)becomes higher.A PMU calibrator is an important tool to test and calibrate PMUs to ensure their measu...Due to the increasing development of renewables in power systems,the requirements for phasor measurement units(PMUs)becomes higher.A PMU calibrator is an important tool to test and calibrate PMUs to ensure their measurement performance.This device can provide accurate reference values for error analysis of PMUs.In this paper,a phasor algorithm with low computational complexity and high accuracy is proposed for the PMU calibrator.This method reduces the processor requirements and development costs of the calibrator,thereby facilitating its popularization.At first,an enhanced discrete Fourier transform(DFT)method is put forward:1)the frequency response of the windowed DFT method is analyzed to reveal its large measurement errors under dynamic conditions;2)the parameter requirements of the DFT window that is regarded as a lowpass filter are analyzed,and thus a lowpass filter with better filtering performance is designed as the window coefficients to improve the estimation accuracy.Then,based on the enhanced DFT algorithm,a calibrator algorithm framework consisting of two-stage filters and a signal recognition module is established.This algorithm can consider the anti-interference ability and dynamic measurement accuracy at a low reporting rate.Simulation and experimental test results show that the proposed calibrator algorithm provides high-accuracy measurements of the static and dynamic signals with low computational complexity.展开更多
Laboratory testing of phasor measurement units(PMUs)guarantees their performance under laboratory conditions.However,many factors may cause PMU measurement problems in actual power systems,resulting in the malfunction...Laboratory testing of phasor measurement units(PMUs)guarantees their performance under laboratory conditions.However,many factors may cause PMU measurement problems in actual power systems,resulting in the malfunction of PMU-based applications.Therefore,field PMUs need to be tested and calibrated to ensure their performance and data quality.In this paper(Part I),a general framework for the field PMU test and calibration in different scenarios is proposed.This framework consists of a PMU calibrator and an analysis center,where the PMU calibrator provides the reference values for PMU error analysis.Two steps are implemented to ensure the calibrator accuracy for complex field signals:①by analyzing the frequency-domain probability distribution of random noise,a Fourier-transform-based signal denoising method is proposed to improve the anti-interference capability of the PMU calibrator;and②a general synchrophasor estimation method based on complex bandpass filters is presented for accurate synchrophasor estimations in multiple scenarios.Simulation and experimental test results demonstrate that the PMU calibrator has a higher accuracy than that of other calibrator algorithms and is suitable for field PMU test.The analysis center for evaluating the performance of field PMUs and the applications of the proposed field PMU test system are provided in detail in Part II of the next-step research.展开更多
Synchrophasor measurement units(PMUs)provide synchronized measurement data for wide-area applications.To improve the effectiveness of synchrophasor-based applications,field PMUs must be tested to ensure their performa...Synchrophasor measurement units(PMUs)provide synchronized measurement data for wide-area applications.To improve the effectiveness of synchrophasor-based applications,field PMUs must be tested to ensure their performance and data quality.In the companion paper(Part I),we proposed a field PMU test and calibration framework consisting of a PMU calibrator and analysis center.Part I presents the development and test of the PMU calibrator.This paper focuses on the analysis center and field test applications.First,the critical component of the analysis center is the signal identification module,for which the step and oscillation signal identification methods are proposed.Here,the performance evaluation criteria of PMU in these two cases are different from others.The methods include a step signal detection method based on singular value decomposition(SVD),which has the capability of weak step detection to account for energy leakage of the signal during the step process,and an oscillation signal identification method based on SVD and fast Fourier transform,which can accurately extract oscillation components that benefit from the adaptive threshold setting method.Second,the analysis center software is implemented based on identification results.By integrating the PMU calibrator in Part I with the analysis center in Part II,we can examine in depth the field PMU test applications in three test scenarios,including standard,playback,and field signal test.Results demonstrate the effectiveness and applicability of the proposed field PMU test methods from both Parts I and II.展开更多
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基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(51627811,51725702).
文摘Due to the increasing development of renewables in power systems,the requirements for phasor measurement units(PMUs)becomes higher.A PMU calibrator is an important tool to test and calibrate PMUs to ensure their measurement performance.This device can provide accurate reference values for error analysis of PMUs.In this paper,a phasor algorithm with low computational complexity and high accuracy is proposed for the PMU calibrator.This method reduces the processor requirements and development costs of the calibrator,thereby facilitating its popularization.At first,an enhanced discrete Fourier transform(DFT)method is put forward:1)the frequency response of the windowed DFT method is analyzed to reveal its large measurement errors under dynamic conditions;2)the parameter requirements of the DFT window that is regarded as a lowpass filter are analyzed,and thus a lowpass filter with better filtering performance is designed as the window coefficients to improve the estimation accuracy.Then,based on the enhanced DFT algorithm,a calibrator algorithm framework consisting of two-stage filters and a signal recognition module is established.This algorithm can consider the anti-interference ability and dynamic measurement accuracy at a low reporting rate.Simulation and experimental test results show that the proposed calibrator algorithm provides high-accuracy measurements of the static and dynamic signals with low computational complexity.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51725702)。
文摘Laboratory testing of phasor measurement units(PMUs)guarantees their performance under laboratory conditions.However,many factors may cause PMU measurement problems in actual power systems,resulting in the malfunction of PMU-based applications.Therefore,field PMUs need to be tested and calibrated to ensure their performance and data quality.In this paper(Part I),a general framework for the field PMU test and calibration in different scenarios is proposed.This framework consists of a PMU calibrator and an analysis center,where the PMU calibrator provides the reference values for PMU error analysis.Two steps are implemented to ensure the calibrator accuracy for complex field signals:①by analyzing the frequency-domain probability distribution of random noise,a Fourier-transform-based signal denoising method is proposed to improve the anti-interference capability of the PMU calibrator;and②a general synchrophasor estimation method based on complex bandpass filters is presented for accurate synchrophasor estimations in multiple scenarios.Simulation and experimental test results demonstrate that the PMU calibrator has a higher accuracy than that of other calibrator algorithms and is suitable for field PMU test.The analysis center for evaluating the performance of field PMUs and the applications of the proposed field PMU test system are provided in detail in Part II of the next-step research.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51725702)。
文摘Synchrophasor measurement units(PMUs)provide synchronized measurement data for wide-area applications.To improve the effectiveness of synchrophasor-based applications,field PMUs must be tested to ensure their performance and data quality.In the companion paper(Part I),we proposed a field PMU test and calibration framework consisting of a PMU calibrator and analysis center.Part I presents the development and test of the PMU calibrator.This paper focuses on the analysis center and field test applications.First,the critical component of the analysis center is the signal identification module,for which the step and oscillation signal identification methods are proposed.Here,the performance evaluation criteria of PMU in these two cases are different from others.The methods include a step signal detection method based on singular value decomposition(SVD),which has the capability of weak step detection to account for energy leakage of the signal during the step process,and an oscillation signal identification method based on SVD and fast Fourier transform,which can accurately extract oscillation components that benefit from the adaptive threshold setting method.Second,the analysis center software is implemented based on identification results.By integrating the PMU calibrator in Part I with the analysis center in Part II,we can examine in depth the field PMU test applications in three test scenarios,including standard,playback,and field signal test.Results demonstrate the effectiveness and applicability of the proposed field PMU test methods from both Parts I and II.
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