Institute of Power Systems

«PROSTOR.GPFC»
Software program
version 1.2.0

DESCRIPTION

2021
Table of contents

Terms and descriptions...............................................................................................................................3

About Company...........................................................................................................................................3
Software Purpose........................................................................................................................................3
Functional....................................................................................................................................................4
Output data format.....................................................................................................................................5
Analysis algorithm.......................................................................................................................................5
Requirements to information exchange......................................................................................................5
System requirements..................................................................................................................................5
Technical support........................................................................................................................................6
Experience in implementation....................................................................................................................6
Interfaces....................................................................................................................................................6

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 Terms and descriptions
ACS TP – automatic control system for technologic processes
GPFC – general primary frequency control
NPFC – normalized primary frequency control
ASFC – automatic secondary frequency control
ASLFC – automatic secondary load-frequency control
OS – operational system
EA – emergency automatics
SW – software
SO – System Operator of the UPS of Russia
PS – power system

About Company
The «Institute of Power Systems» company for more than 15 years successfully carried out different works
in the field of development, modernization and implementation of control systems for System Operator of
the UPS of Russia (SO) and for the largest power companies such as RusHydro, OGK-2, Enel, Unipro,
BGK, Inter-RAO and others, namely:

 Development of SW (BAE, Cozvezdie, Energiya) and of the monitoring criteria of generation

equipment participation in normalized primary frequency control (NPFC), in automatic secondary
frequency control (ASFC) and in general primary frequency control (GPFC) for the needs of SO;
 Development and implementation of power plant devices (PPD) for the power plant participation in
automatic secondary frequency control (ASFC) and for determination of power plant actual
participation in normalized primary frequency control (NPFC) for the needs of power companies
(RusHYDRO, OGK-2, Enel, Unipro, BGK, Inter-RAO and others);
 Adjusting the various control devices in automatic technological process control systems at power
plants.
Our partners are the following companies: Emerson, Siemens, Beckhoff, PSI.

Software Purpose
Software program «PROSTOR.GPFC» is purposed for automatic monitoring the generation equipment
participation in general primary frequency control at the power plant level in order to fulfil the requirements
of Order #2 of Russian Energetics Ministry from 2019 January 9 “On confirmation of the requirements for
participation of generation equipment in general primary frequency control and on putting the changes into
Rules of technical operation of power plants and networks of Russian Federation, confirmed by Order #229
of Russian Energetics Ministry from 2003 June 19”.
Calculation algorithm is developed according to «The methods of monitoring and analysis of generation
equipment participation in GPFC» confirmed by «SO UPS» company in 2019 June 01.
The program is installed on a server or virtual computer at the power station and fulfils an information
exchange with the technological data acquisition systems, forms the monitoring data archives, the report on
analysis of the power station participation in GPFC and also sends the messages by request.
The «PROSTOR.GPFC» is for today the only specialized software for GPFC automatic monitoring that
makes possible to fulfil the requirements of #2 Order of Energetics Ministry of 2019 January 09. Besides an
implementation of the SW program will make possible:
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for department heads:

 To organize an operative automatic evaluation of the power station participation in GPFC when
frequency moves over the primary control setting. In advance to receive information on the
correct/noncorrect participation in GPFC.
 The SW renewal when the methods of participation in GPFC analysis changed will allow to always
have the actual reports.
 To receive a consulting support by the SW developer when investigating the controversial case with
SO of UPS.
for responsible specialists:

 To completely automate a preparation of reports on the GPFC participation in the diagram and table
forms for SO of UPS.
 To inform the department heads about the correct/noncorrect participation in GPFC.
The SW «PROSTOR.GPFC» is developed on the program platform PROSTOR. In future on this platform
other calculation and analytic tasks can be realized, for example: the calculation of fuel and energy indices,
the optimal control of generation equipment mix, the NPFC monitoring and analysis, the concentrator of
synchronized vector measurements, the check of dispatch schedule execution, the connection to delivery
system of the planned generation values and so on.
According to the technical policy of import substitution SW «PROSTOR.GPFC» corresponds to all
requirements to the software of Russian production including a work on the Russian operating systems and
with the Russian data bases.
SW«PROSTOR.GPFC» is included to the unified list of Russian software programs for computers and data
bases.

Functional
SW«PROSTOR.GPFC» has the following functions:

 Information exchange with the data sources through the following digital protocols of information
exchange:
o Modbus TCP;
o IEC 60870-5-104;
o OPC UA and others.
 Calculation execution according to the algorithms of GPFC participation analysis and forming the
report:
o In automatic mode;
o By hand with starting the GPFC participation analysis at the selected time period;
o On a basis of data loaded from the file through user interface.
 Automatic sending the reports to the power station personnel (or other specified persons):
o By the fact of participation in GPFC;
o According to the adjusted time schedule (for example, once in a month).
 Keeping the GPFC participation analysis results (*.html) and the participation data (*.csv) in the file
storage.
 Operator web-interface used for adjusting the SW, for operation by request of control dispatcher and
for data graphic monitoring.
 Self-test of the system, monitoring of the computing resources used and forming the errors and
report log.

Output data format

As a result of the GPFC generation equipment participation analysis the following output data are formed:

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  File with the monitoring data in *.csv format containing the time tags and the parameter values of
GPFC monitoring.
 File in *.html format containing report on the GPFC generation equipment participation with
diagrams and tables with the analysis results.
The examples of diagrams from the report are given in Appendix 1 (Fig.1-3).

Analysis algorithm
For the GPFC generation object participation analysis it is necessary to build the admissible borders of an
active power generation: that is the lower border when frequency deviates downward and the higher border
when frequency deviates upward. The borders are built with taking considering the admissible value of the
current primary power for +-1%Pnom.
If the values of power generation are less than the lower admissible border (when frequency deviates
downward) or are more than the higher admissible border (when frequency deviates upward) then the
violation is fixed.
If there are the additional signals assisting the GPFC monitoring then these signals are used in the analysis
algorithm and increase an accuracy of analysis.

Requirements to information exchange

For correct work of SW«PROCTOR.GPFC» at least the following data are required:

 Actual active generation power [МW],

 Measured network frequency [Hz].
These parameters should be measured with an accuracy meeting the requirements of the regulating
documents of SO. The information exchange should be realized through the digital communication protocols
with a period not more than 1 sec.
For checking a connection with the parameter measuring devices a constantly changed analog signal should
be sent. If it is possible the additional signals from the generating object are also received that assisting the
realization of GPFC participation analysis, namely:

 Control signal from Central LFC System, if this power generation object takes part in LFC [МW].
 Plan value of generating power [МW].
 Discrete signals of reaching the limits Pmax, Pmin.
 Signal of the emergency automatics action.

System requirements
The recommended OS for SW «PROSTOR.GPFC»: AstraLinux.
The recommended computing resources:
Processor: not worse than 2.4 GHz 6 cores.
Operation memory: no less than 8 GB.
Disk memory: no less than 100 GB.
Required apparat resources: Ethernet .

Technical support
Concluding the contract with our company you will obtain the reliable partner for a technical support
of the SW. Our company has realized more than 180 projects in the field of power engineering. Within a
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structure of the company there is the technical support subdivision rendering the services in day-and-night
regime.
Within a framework of the technical support the revealed disrepairs are eliminated, new data sources
are connected, the algorithms are corrected and adapted when the analysis methods of SO UPS are changed.
Also according to the contract on the technical support our company renders the services on the preparation
of the correctness grounds for the GPFC generation equipment participation, on the algorithms actualization,
on taking into accounts the newly appeared additional signals, and on participation in investigation of
controversial cases with SO UPS.

Experience in implementation
The project realized by our company at Shakhtinskaya power station in the August-October of 2020
can be used as an example of the successful mplementation. The specific feature of this power station is that
a few generations are considered by SO UPS as one «polyunit» obliged to participate in GPFC. In this case
we had to correct the mathematic analysis methods. Also at the power station there were no some signals of
parameter measurements necessary for correct monitoring and GPFC participation analysis. Our company
for 3 months draw up the plan, developed the product version with corrected algorithms, delivered the
missing equipment, installed and adjusted SW, and instructed the personnel to use the system.
For the present day the system is successfully operated.
Implementation of SW«PROSTOR.GPFC» made it possible not only to meet the requirements of #2
Order of Energetics Ministry from 2019 January 09 and to organize an operative automatic evaluation of
participation in GPFC when frequency deviates over the primary control setting but also in good time to
obtain information about the correct/noncorrect power plant participation in GPFC.
The automatization of monitoring and GPFC participation analysis made it possible not only to
dispose the operative personnel of some work but also to increase knowledge of engineers about the features
and evaluation criteria of GPFC generation equipment participation.

Interfaces
All interfaces of SW «PROSTOR.GPFC» are realized as web-pages and can be opened in the modern
browsers.

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 Figure 2. Set up of the information exchange

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Figure 3. Set up of the generation object model

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Figure 4. File storage and the addresses for distribution the reports

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Configurator of calculation algorithm

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Figure 6. Calculation on a basis of System data or the data loaded from file

Figure 7. Log-journal

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Figure 1. Correct participation in GPFC

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Figure 2. Noncorrect participation in GPFC

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Figure 3. Viewing of GPFC monitoring archived data

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