Elipse Power Renewable

Disturbance records from intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) are key sources of information for understanding system behavior and spotting problems on the power network. Engineering teams use these files after the fact for deeper analysis of disturbances, and ADMS and EMS solutions can process them automatically to identify faults and network dynamics.

Each IED vendor usually supplies its own tool for collecting oscillography data, so a utility may have to use several tools from different vendors to perform the same task. Since not all devices generate files in a widely used standard such as COMTRADE, and proprietary systems often cannot automate the process, retrieving oscillography data can be difficult and costly.

Over time, these files grow in both size and number, making it harder to match a given failure to its original record. Disturbance repositories are often created without backup or retention policies, which makes retrieval even harder.

Elipse Power Disturbance Manager is designed specifically for collecting, storing, and analyzing oscillography data from any IED vendor. Data can be collected through different protocols and media. The files are cataloged in an SQL database, COMTRADE files are saved to any repository on the network, and records can be viewed and analyzed in E3 Viewer or any COMTRADE-compatible third-party tool.

Benefits

• Shorter commissioning, with manual disturbance-retrieval tasks automated
• Fewer errors and easier maintenance, with collection unified and automated on a single platform
• Better-organized data for further analysis and reports
• Flexible integration with other processes and systems, such as bidirectional SCADA/EMS/ADMS communication
• More accurate fault detection and location when integrated with the FLISR module