Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.

Md Arif Khan

Gregary C Zweigle

Riley Grant Huddleston

Jared Kyle Bestebreur

Eric J Hewitt

Techniques and apparatus presented herein are directed toward monitoring an electric power delivery system to detect and locate a power generation event. A power generation event may include a tripped generator, a loss of a transmission line, or other loss of power generation. To detect the event, an analysis engine may receive and monitor input data. A detection signal may be generated based on the input data. Upon detecting the event, the analysis engine may determine a source and propagation of the event through the delivery system. Based on the source and propagation of the event, the analysis engine may determine the location of the event. The analysis engine may generate an overlay with the input data to provide the location and other information about the event to a user such that remedial action can be taken to resolve the event and restore the lost power generation.

Event analysis and display

Systems, methods, and devices are provided for dynamically generating a histogram for viewing via a user interface. Embodiments presented herein provide apparatus and techniques for generating a histogram and adjusting a view of the histogram without the computations being perceived by a user. To do so, histogram indices may be computed for various time intervals (e.g., minutes, hours, days, etc.) of input data. The indices may be used to generate a histogram for a time interval that may be larger than the interval used to compute the histogram indices. At the time period for the histogram displayed via the user interface is changed by the user, a dynamic histogram builder computes an adjusted histogram using histogram indices for the updated and/or changed time period. Embodiments herein provide techniques which reduce the time to compute the histogram and consume less computing resources to do so.

Dynamic histogram builder

A system includes a processor operatively coupled to memory. The processor performs operations that include obtaining electrical measurements of a power system. The processor determines a scaled energy value of a first set of the electrical measurements that are scaled with respect to a second set of electrical measurements. The processor determines that a potential ringdown event occurred by comparing the scaled energy value to a threshold energy value. The processor determines that the potential ringdown event is a confirmed ringdown event by comparing a scaled error value to a threshold error value. The processor generates one or more mode estimates from the confirmed ringdown event.

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Pullman, WA, United States of America

Md Arif Khan