System, Method, and Computer Program Product for Analyzing Power Grid Data

• US 20090187344A1
• Filed: 01/16/2009
• Published: 07/23/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/19/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Current Communications Services LLC (Widewall Investments SL)
• Original Assignee: Current Communications Services LLC (Widewall Investments SL)
• Inventors: Brancaccio, Daniel S., Kreiss, David G.
• Application Number:
  US12/355,361
• Publication Number:
  US 20090187344A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/4
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 19/2513 Arrangements for monitoring electric power systems, e.g. power lines or loads; Logging

Abstract

A system, device and method for analyzing power grid data is provided. In one embodiment, the system includes a data collection module comprising a plurality of database adapters configured to retrieve non-operational utility data, a data storage module in communication with said data collection module and comprising a database for storing the non-operational utility data, and an analysis and reporting module in communication with said data storage module and configured to process the non-operational data and to provide a plurality of reports and a plurality of alarms. The analysis and reporting module may comprise an object library comprising a plurality of objects and wherein each object is configured to perform a specific analysis of utility data, an analysis rules module linking one or more objects of the object library and defining an analysis to be performed, an analysis engine configured to execute the analysis rules module, and a report generator configured to produce a report based on an output of the analysis rule module.

Claims

1. A system for analyzing power grid data, comprising:

a data collection module comprising a plurality of database adaptors configured to retrieve non-operational utility data;

a data storage module in communication with said data collection module and comprising a database for storing the non-operational utility data; and

an analysis module in communication with said data storage module and configured to process the non-operational data and to provide a plurality of reports and a plurality of alarms.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein said analysis module comprises:

an object library comprising a plurality of objects and wherein each object is configured to perform a specific analysis of utility data;

an analysis rules module linking one or more objects of the object library;

an analysis engine configured to execute the analysis rules module; and

a report generator configured to produce a report based on an output of the analysis rule module.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein said analysis module comprises:

an alarm module configured to process non-operational data and generate alarms;

an analysis rules module configured to link a plurality of objects; and

an analysis engine configured to control the execution of said analysis rules module.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein the non-operational data includes lightening strike data and said analysis module comprises a fault analysis module configured to correlate lightening strike data to operational data and to produce an output.

5. The system according to claim 4, wherein said fault analysis module is configured to process utility data to correlate a power line fault to a lightening strike.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein the non-operational data includes power quality disturbance data and said analysis module comprises a power quality module configured to process power quality disturbance data to produce an output.

7. The system according to claim 6, wherein the output comprises at least one of an indication of an origin of the power quality disturbance and an indication of an impact of the power quality disturbance on a power customer.

8. The system according to claim 6, wherein said power quality module is configured to provide an output comprising an analysis of at least one of harmonics, zero-crossing errors, and voltage notches.

9. The system according to claim 6, wherein said power quality module is configured to provide one or more outputs collectively comprising analyses of harmonics, zero-crossing errors, and voltage notches.

10. The system according to claim 1, wherein said analysis module comprises a reporting module comprising a plurality of functions configured to process data of a waveform into two or more of the group of:

harmonics, impedance, phasors, sag frequency, and harmonic frequency distribution.

11. The system according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the plurality of database adapter is configured to store received non-operational data in a tabular file format in a memory for temporary storage.

12. A computer system for analyzing utility data, comprising:

a data storage module comprising a database for storing utility data; and

an analysis module in communication with said data storage module and configured to process the utility data and to provide a plurality of reports and a plurality of alarms;

said analysis module comprising;

an object library comprising a plurality of objects and wherein each object is configured to perform a specific analysis of utility data;

a plurality of analysis rules modules and wherein each analysis rules module links one or more objects of the object library;

an analysis engine configured to execute each of the analysis rules modules; and

a report generator configured to produce a report based on an output of an analysis rule module.

13. The system according to claim 12, wherein the utility data includes lightening strike data and said analysis module comprises a fault analysis module configured to correlate lightening strike data to operational data and to produce an output.

14. The system according to claim 13, wherein said fault analysis module is configured to process utility data to correlate a power line fault to a lightening strike.

15. The system according to claim 12, wherein the utility data includes power quality disturbance data and said analysis module comprises a power quality module configured to process power quality disturbance data to produce the output.

16. The system according to claim 15, wherein the output comprises at least one of an indication of an origin of the power quality disturbance and an indication of an impact of the power quality disturbance on a power customer.

17. The system according to claim 15, wherein said power quality module is configured to produce an output comprising an analysis of at least one of harmonics, zero-crossing errors, and voltage notches.

18. The system according to claim 15, wherein said power quality module is configured to produce one or more outputs collectively comprising analyses of harmonics, zero-crossing errors, and voltage notches.

19. The system according to claim 12, wherein said reporting module comprises a plurality of functions configured to process data of a waveform into two or more of the group of:

harmonics, impedance, phasors, sag frequency, and harmonic frequency distribution.

20. A method of using a computer system to analyze utility data, comprising:

receiving utility data;

storing utility data in a data storage system;

linking a first set of objects together and wherein each object is configured to perform a specific analysis of utility data;

executing the linked first set of objects to process utility data to provide a first result; and

outputting the first result.

21. The method according to claim 20, further comprising linking a second set of objects together and wherein each object of said second set is configured to perform a specific analysis of utility data;

executing the linked second set of objects to provide a second result; and

outputting the second result.

22. The method according to claim 21, wherein at least one object is common to both said first set of objects and said second set of objects.

23. The method according to claim 20, wherein said output comprises an alarm and a report.

24. The method according to claim 20, wherein the first result comprises an analysis of at least one of harmonics, zero-crossing errors, and voltage notches

25. The method according to claim 20, wherein the first result comprises analyses of harmonics, zero-crossing errors, and voltage notches.

26. The method according to claim 20, wherein the utility data includes lightening strike data, and the linked first set of objects are configured to correlate lightening strike data to operational data.

27. The method according to claim 20, wherein the linked first set of objects is configured to process utility data to correlate a power line fault to a lightening strike.

28. The method according to claim 20, wherein the utility data includes power quality disturbance data and said the linked first set of objects is configured to process power quality disturbance data.

29. The method according to claim 28, wherein the first result comprises at least one of an indication of an origin of the power quality disturbance.

30. The method according to claim 20, wherein one or more objects are configured to process data of a waveform into each of the group of:

impedance, phasors, sag frequency, and harmonic frequency distribution.