Small hydro power plant automation

Oswaldo Kaschny
Schneider Electric Brazil
CDI Power
Small Hydroelectric: Power and Control solution

Measurement
board MV/HV Substation
Power control & supervision
meters - PLC
Operation And - Protection relays
quality - Power Meters
Centre

Turbine

Generation
Control
- PLC
- Speed drives
- Circuit breakers
- Power Meters
Auxiliaries
Flood gate Control Substation
- PLC - Transformers
- Speed drives and motor starters - Cubicles
- Circuit breakers - Protection relays
- Power Meters
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Integrated Schneider Electric Solution including

● Operation centre based on CITECT Scada

● Generator control
● Generator and Transformer protections
● Flood gate control
● MV/HV substation control and supervision
● Measurement boards
 Operation Center based on CITECT SCADA
CITECT DUAL WORKSTATION

● Two redundant Servers (Com. and

Database): data collection ETHERNET
(MODBUS PROTOCOL)
(Ethernet Network), storage and
management from the PLCs

CITECT
● Two Workstations for Hydroelectric PORTABLE
and Substation control and ENGINEERING
STATION
supervision; scanning Generators,
Transformers and Transmission
Lines; CITECT
COMMUNICATION AND
CITECT DATA BASE DUAL
COMMUNICATION
● One Portable Engineering Station: AND DATA BASE
SERVER

configuration and development of DUAL SERVER

MEASUREMENT
PRINTERS
new applications ION ENTERPRISE

● One ION ENTERPRISE Station:

Measurement supervision
SWITCH

● One Ethernet Network for

communication using Switches
with PLCs, RTU, Protection GPS
PLCs – RELAYS – Meters
Relays, Meters, GPS and printers.
 Generator Control
MAGELIS SWITCH
VIJEO SOFTWARE

● Generator solution based on

MODICOM PLC with local Magelis
HMI (Vijeo CITECT Operation
ETHERNET
Software) (MODBUS PROTOCOL)

MODBUS SERIAL NETWORK

GENERATOR
● Generators PLC responsible for: PLC
● Transfer field data to the
Operations Center (Ethernet
Network)
● Generator Units Supervision and
Control (Digital and Analog
Modules)
● Voltage Regulator and Speed MOTOR CIRCUIT
GENERATOR
Drives Supervision and Control SUPERVISION STARTERS STARTERS CONTROL BREAKERS
TESYS U TESYS U ALTIVAR
AND CONTROL
● Motor Starters and Frequency
VOLTAGE SPEED
Inverters Supervision and Control REGULATOR DRIVE

● Circuit Breakers Supervision and

Control PUMP PUMP PUMP

● Power Meters PM 820

Supervision
GENERATOR
 Generator and Transformer Protection

SWITCH

● Generator Protection based on

SEPAM digital protection relay (20,
40 and 80 ranges).

ETHERNET
(MODBUS
● Sepam Relays manage Generators PROTOCOL)
and transformers protection, data
transfer to Operations Center
(Ethernet Network)

● Sepam relays are easy to RELAYS

configure, programmable. They

provide sequence of events and GENERATOR GENERATOR TRANSFORMER TRANSFORMER
DIFFERENTIAL DIFFERENTIAL DIFFERENTIAL DIFFERENTIAL
oscillography. PROTECTION PROTECTION PROTECTION PROTECTION
(MAIN) (SECONDARY) (MAIN) (SECONDARY)
SEPAM G87 SEPAM G87 SEPAM T87 SEPAM G87
 Floodgate Control

Floodgate control solution consists in MODICON MAGELIS SWITCH

VIJEO SOFTWARE
PLCs with local Magelis HMI using Vijeo
CITECT Operation Software.

The Programmable Logical Controllers of ETHERNET

floodgates are responsible for: (MODBUS PROTOCOL)

● Field data transfer to the Operations Center FLOODGATE MODBUS SERIAL NETWORK
PLC
through Ethernet Network.
● Floodgates Supervision and Control
● Motor Starters Supervision and Control
● Circuit Breakers Supervision and Control

FLOODGATE MOTOR CIRCUIT

STARTERS STARTERS CONTROL BREAKERS
SUPERVISION TESYS U TESYS U ALTIVAR
AND CONTROL

MOTOR MOTOR MOTOR

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Substation Control

Substation control and protection based on MODICON PLC

and local HMI Magelis (Vijeo CITECT Operation Software) SWITCH

MAGELIS ETHERNET
VIJEO (MODBUS PROTOCOL)
SOFTWARE

Substation PLC manage:

● Transfer field data to the
Operations Center; SUBSTATION
PLC GENERATOR
● Supervision of Substation and SYNCHRONIZATION
Lines
● Circuit Breakers Supervision and
Control Power Meter
PM 820
● Supervision of Synchronization SUBSTATION
SUPERVISION
AND CONTROL
● Supervision of Power Meters
PM820.
Measurement boards
Measurement boards are based on ION 8600 Meters and
ION ENTERPRISE Monitoring Software
SWITCH
The ION 8600 Meters are in charge of:
● Gross and Net Measurement
ETHERNET
● Transfer measurement data towards
Operations Center;
● Transfer measurement data towards
the CCEE SERIAL

● Transfer measurement data towards CCEE

Utility Control Center UTILITIES

TRANSMISSION SERIAL GENERATOR

LINE MEASUREMEN
MEASUREMENT T
ION 8600 ION 8600
ION Enterprise Software allows:
- measurement data monitoring
- power quality assessment.