US 2010/0146319 A1Published application

Method And Protection Device For A Power Network Accounting For Route Switching In A Telecommunication Network

AssigneeABB Technology AG

InventorsBertil Lundqvist, Bjorn Lexelius, Kent Wikstrom

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Abstract

A protection device for a power network performs a method to align measuring times of first and second measurements of an electric quantity, taken at different ends of a power network line transmitted with measuring times via a telecommunication network. In the method, a send transmission time from the local to remote end of the line and a receive transmission time from the remote to local end of the line are determined based on time signals from internal clocks. After a global time reference to synchronize the internal clocks is lost, a clock drift is determined between the internal clocks. The measuring times of the first and the second measurements are aligned using the send and receive transmission times as well as the clock drift. A sudden change in the clock drift is determined in order to recognize a route switching in the telecommunication network and the clock drift is corrected.

Claims7

Dependent claims

A method to align measuring times of a first and a second measurement of an electric quantity, where the first measurement

is taken at a local end of a line of a power network and
is transmitted by a first protection device together with a corresponding first measuring time expressed by a first internal clock via a telecommunication network to a remote end of the line and where the second measurement
is taken at the remote end of the line and
is transmitted by a second protection device together with a corresponding second measuring time expressed by a second internal clock via the telecommunication network to the local end of the line after the first measurement was received by the second protection device,
the method comprising the steps of
determining a send transmission time from the local to the remote end of the line,
determining a receive transmission time from the remote to the local end of the line,
aligning the measuring times of the first and the second measurements by expressing the measuring time of the second measurement in terms of the first internal clock using the send and receive transmission times, characterized in that
as long as the first and the second internal clock are synchronized by a global time reference a transmission difference is determined as difference between the send and the receive transmission times and the transmission difference is stored,
after losing the global time reference,
time signals generated by the first and the second internal clock are used to determine the send and receive transmission times,
a clock drift is determined between the first and the second internal clock from the transmission difference stored just before losing the global time reference and from the send and receive transmission times,
the measuring times are aligned by additionally taking into account the clock drift,
a sudden change in the clock drift is determined and the stored transmission difference is corrected using values of the clock drift determined just before and just after the sudden change.

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Protection device to protect a power network comprising

a measurement input interface to receive a first measurement of an electric quantity taken at a local end of a line of the power network,
a first internal clock,
a clock input interface to receive a signal from a global time reference to synchronize the first internal clock with,
a storage unit,
a control output interface to output a control signal to a protection actuator,
a bidirectional communication interface to a telecommunication network
to transmit the first measurement together with a corresponding first measuring time expressed by the first internal clock and
to receive a second measurement taken at a remote end of the line and transmitted after reception of the first measurement by a second protection device together with a corresponding second measuring time expressed by a second internal clock,
a processing unit which
determines a send transmission time from the local to the remote end of the line,
determines a receive transmission time from the remote to the local end of the power line,
aligns the measuring times of the first and the second measurements by expressing the measuring time of the second measurement in terms of the first internal clock using the send and receive transmission times and
characterized in that the processing unit
as long as the global time reference is available, determines a transmission difference as difference between the send and the receive transmission times and stores the transmission difference in the storage unit,
after the global time reference is lost,
uses time signals generated by the first internal clock and received from the second internal clock to determine the send and receive transmission times,
determines a clock drift between the first and the second internal clock from the transmission difference stored just before losing the global time reference and from the send and receive transmission times,
aligns the measuring times by additionally taking into account the clock drift,
determines a sudden change in the clock drift and corrects the stored transmission difference using values of the clock drift determined just before and just after the sudden change.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.