ENEE14005 Capstone Power and Control Design Term 1 2017 Reinforcement of the Australian National Grid by Connecting SA Directly With Qld Due: 11:45 pm 31 may 2017 – This is the due date/time for your portfolio as well as the report, paper and video presentation Group/Individual: GROUP 2-3 persons Aim The aim of this project is to investigate options for connecting South Australia directly through to Queensland and the benefits which will result. Background The project is based on an idea presented at the 2016 IEEE PES Asia-Pacific Power and Energy Engineering Conference by Professor Simon Bartlett of the University of Queensland. This paper entitled and may be found using IEEE Xplore which CQU has a licence for, see http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/home.jsp This link would directly reinforce the national grid as well as connecting renewable resources in both states ( wind and some solar in SA and solar in Qld). You are to investigate three transmission options ⦁ HVAC ⦁ HVDC – Current Source Converter (CSC) ⦁ HVDC – Voltage Source Converter (VSC) Reporting on ⦁ Technical feasibility ⦁ Effect on voltages and losses ⦁ Effects on stability – critical clearing times and maximum power transfers ⦁ Effects on power quality, principally harmonics but other aspects such as flicker and phase imbalance should be considered. ⦁ Sustainability – Economic, Environmental and Social ( the triple bottom line) ⦁ The best option based on 1 and 2. The project is to be done in groups of 2-3 persons. Deliverables ⦁ Group Report of not more than thirty pages with the following structure ⦁ Executive summary of not more than two pages ⦁ Introduction and Background ⦁ Methodology ⦁ Results ( summary only, any raw data whould be in an appendix) ⦁ Discussion ⦁ Conclusions and recommendations ⦁ References ( Harvard system of referencing for the report) ⦁ Appendices. Note you must have a statement of contributions of each member of your group. This statement is to be signed by all group members. ⦁ Recorded Presentation ⦁ No more than 10 minutes ⦁ A powerpoint slide show with audio/video is acceptable ⦁ ALL group members are to participate ⦁ Paper A four page paper prepared in IEEE conference format, see https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html Note that the style of referencing not Harvard. Details of the format and a template in MS Word format can be found at the above link. Data and Software You are to use PSS/E Xplore which is a free download from https://w3.usa.siemens.com/smartgrid/us/en/transmission-grid/products/grid-analysis-tools/transmission-system-planning/pages/university-order.aspx Details of the installation and video tutorials on its use will be available on the unit Moodle site. A custom utility for converting PSS/E output files to CSV files will be provided on the Moodle site. This allows you to analyse results in either Excel or Matlab. Matlab will be useful and is available on University computers. Student versions can be purchased online but this is optional. If interested go to https://au.mathworks.com/academia/student_version.html?s_tid=srchtitle Note that PSS/E Xplore is a “cut-down”version of the industry version and is limited to 50 buses and about 10 synchronous generators. This is the reason you will be using a further reduced version of the reduced Australian grid model developed by the University of Adelaide. You are supplied with all the data needed to create the base load flow case described in the appendix. You will be able to access on Moodle the PSS/E .sav and .sld files for part of this system ( just Qld and NSW with the Snowy Mountains generator, SMEC, acting as the slack bus). In the first tutorial you will extend this to include the VIC and SA systems described in the appendix. If this is done correctly you should obtain the attached load flow results. Note that this system contains a bus SAWND ( bus 504) where wind generation will be placed. Note also that in the four state system the slack bus is at VGEN, bus 301.  Appendix – System Data and Base Case Load Flow Results This data is based on a system derived from the 14 generator reduced Australian system developed by the University of Adelaide in 2010 See http://www.eleceng.adelaide.edu.au/Groups/PCON/PowerSystems/IEEE/BenchmarkData/Simplified_14-Gen_System_Rev3_20100701.pdf Base Case Bus Voltages Base Case Generator Data – (Note Slack Bus is at bus 301 VGEN ) Load Data - based on 2010 Australian Peak Loads Transmission Line Data - All values in per unit on system base Transmission Line Data (cont.)  Base Case Reactive Compensation – This may need to be varied at times. Single Line Diagram of System from the SMEC Bus Northwards (This is a rough model of the Qld and NSW systems. The diagram is produced from a load flow run on the entire system) Single Line Diagram of System from SMEC Southwards – In the first tutorial you will develop the system south of the SMEC Bus