Comprehensive Applications of PSCAD
This course is designed for participants who already have some experience using PSCAD. To ensure that all attendees can fully benefit from the advanced content, the first half-day session will focus on reviewing key PSCAD functionalities and refreshing users on essential skills. This foundational segment will help everyone get up to speed before delving into more advanced topics and applications. Following this refresher course, the course will explore a variety of complex studies that can be performed using EMT-type simulations in PSCAD.
TOPICS:
1. Getting Started
2. Switching Overvoltage and Equipment Energizing
- Surge arrester applications
- Line and cable switching
- Capacitor switching
- Single pole auto reclose
3. Black Start Restoration Studies with Conventional Generation
• Energizing transformer lines and loads while meeting dynamic voltage and frequency limits
4. Ferro Resonance Investigation
5. Inverters And Renewable Generation
- Discussion on grid forming / grid following inverter controls
- Inverter protection and control settings and tuning
- Inverter model compliance test and benchmarking
6. Wide Area EMT Studies with Focus on IBR Connections
- Discussion: wide area model development and validation
- Dynamic performance and control interaction studies
- Applications of synchronous condensers
- Applications of STATCOM
7. Dynamic Frequency Scanning
8. Torsional Interactions And SSO
9. Black Start and Grid Forming Inverters
• Island mode operation
• Energizing transformer equipment and loads
• Synchronizing with conventional generators or grid islands
10. Temporary Overvoltage Analysis of Collector Cables and Offshore Wind Farms
Speaker: Dharshana Muthumuni