CN101677192A - Methods for assessing potentially compromising situations of a utility company - Google Patents

Abstract

Methods are provided for assessing potentially compromising situations of a utility company. One or more source displays of a site are accessed. A fly-out or data lensing is used to bring forward a portion of the source displays. The fly-out or data lensing is used to draw attention to a potentially compromising situation and direct the operator's attention without loosing perspective of a whole power system of the utility company.

Description

Be used to assess the method that may be in the dangerous situation state of affairs of Utilities Electric Co.

The cross reference of related application

The application requires the United States Patent (USP) S/N.60/952 of submission on July 26th, 2007, and 021 rights and interests, this application integral body by reference are incorporated into this.

Technical field

The application relates generally to improve the system and method for energy conservation, is specifically related to be used for the system and method in Utilities Electric Co. market.

Background technology

Modern power network begins, passes through power line transmission, distributes by the distribution branch line from a circuit that leaves transformer station of power plant, and finishes with the Terminal Service that enters user's gauge table socket.The present invention relates to the management to transmission system, its objective is to remain on all devices in the working limit and guarantee and power with reliability above 99.999% from control centre.

In order to manage electrical network, electric utility depends on energy management system (EMS), and these systems also can control the mission critical information system of protection equipment from control centre from the on-site collection data by supervisory control and data acqui sition system (SCADA).

EMS of today is complicated more, and it has advanced algorithm and from the ever-increasing data capacity of the more intelligent grid that is equipped with intelligent electronic device (IED).

Yet intelligent grid and the electric power system algorithm of handling the complexity of field data will be not enough to prevent the human error in the control centre.Operating personnel constantly undergo training to adapt to new system status and reply emergency situation.Grasp complex information and be called as " state of affairs cognition " (situation awareness) with this general ability of making correct decisions.

The bust of electric power system is uncommon relatively, in case very surprising but their take place.Nineteen sixty-five, 2,500 ten thousand people of Northeastern United States were had a power failure 12 hours.Another time power failure in 1977 shuts down a couple of days the New York.And in 2003, on the American history maximum power failure make the U.S. from Massachusetts, the Connecticut State, New York and western part, New Jersey to the zone of the Ohio and the state of Michigan 4,000 ten thousand people and 10,000,000 people of Canadian east had a power failure.Lacking multi-level abundant state of affairs cognition is to cause one of root of the North America large-area power-cuts on August 14th, 2003.

Comprise at abundant state of affairs cognition (SA) design tool and to keep following factor firmly in mind: so-called " enemy of state of affairs cognition ": absent-minded, necessary memory trap (requisite memory trap); Data overload; Misplace feature (misplaced salience); Complexity creep (complexity creep), mistake mental model, situation unclear (out-of-the-loop) syndrome; Overwork, anxiety, fatigue and other pressure factor.

There is the demand to the method that may be in the dangerous situation state of affairs of assessment Utilities Electric Co. in this area.There is the demand to the method that may be in the dangerous situation state of affairs of utilizing pop-up box or data lens assessment Utilities Electric Co. in this area.This area also exists does not make operating personnel lose demand to the method that may be in the dangerous situation state of affairs of the assessment Utilities Electric Co. of the observation of the whole electric power system of Utilities Electric Co. to pilot operationp personnel's attentiveness.

Summary of the invention

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide and be used to utilize pop-up box or data lensization to assess the method that may be in the dangerous situation state of affairs of Utilities Electric Co..

Another object of the present invention provides and is used to utilize pop-up box or data lensization to come pilot operationp personnel's attentiveness and does not make operating personnel lose the method that may be in the dangerous situation state of affairs to the assessment Utilities Electric Co. of the observation of the whole electric power system of Utilities Electric Co..

Another purpose of the present invention provides and is used to utilize pop-up box or data lens not to leave the method that may be in the dangerous situation state of affairs of the assessment Utilities Electric Co. of main observation window to allow operating personnel to produce information display window.

These and other objects of the present invention realize with the method that may be in the dangerous situation state of affairs of assessment Utilities Electric Co..Visited one or more sources display window of website.Pop-up box or data lensization are used for the part of source display window is presented at the front.Pop-up box or data lensization are used for causing to attention that may be in the dangerous situation state of affairs and pilot operationp personnel's attentiveness and do not lose observation to the whole electric power system of Utilities Electric Co..

Description of drawings

The block diagram that provides an embodiment of the energy management system of the present invention of the real-time cognition of possible energy conservation fault is provided Fig. 1.

Fig. 2 is the block diagram that an embodiment of the energy management system of the present invention with state of affairs instrument board is shown.

Fig. 3 is the flow chart that an application program of Fig. 2 system is shown.

Fig. 4 illustrates an embodiment of the customization instrument board of the present invention that comes from three different display windows.

Fig. 5 is the flow chart that an embodiment of the method for the present invention that may be in the dangerous situation state of affairs of assessing Utilities Electric Co. is shown.

Fig. 6 illustrates an embodiment of pop-up box of the present invention and little frame (pod).

Fig. 7 illustrates an embodiment of the geographical general view with background layer, and it illustrates the aerial view in the present invention one zone.

Fig. 8 is the flow chart that an embodiment of the method for the present invention of utilizing rubber bar or lasso trick technology to set up dynamic listing from the selection area of the electric power system of Utilities Electric Co. is shown.

Fig. 9 illustrates a regioselective embodiment that can use with the flow chart of Fig. 8.

Figure 10 illustrates an embodiment of the key character of the chosen elements that can adopt with the flow chart of Fig. 8.

Figure 11 illustrates the flow chart that is used to manage from an embodiment of the method for the present invention of the high pressure of the selection area of the electric power system of Utilities Electric Co. and low pressure situation.

Figure 12 illustrates an embodiment based on automatic megavar deposit (MVAR reserve) instrument board that calculates and can be associated with the flow chart of Figure 11 of selection area.

Figure 13 illustrates the 3-D view of the available megavar of utilizing positive and negative idle deposit (reactive reserve) toolbar button and can being associated with the flow chart of Figure 11.

Figure 14 is the flow chart of an embodiment of method of the present invention that the reliability of the electric power system that is used to assess Utilities Electric Co. is shown.

Figure 15 is associated with the flow chart of Figure 14, and if illustrate occur afterwards at state estimation device (SE) new out-of-limit then (viewport) shows alarm in the viewing area.

Figure 16 is associated with the flow chart of Figure 14 and selected branch road is shown.

Figure 17 be associated with the flow chart of Figure 14 and be illustrated in out-of-limit accident (contingencyviolation) after how to show the mark that is associated with monitored element.

Figure 18 is associated with the flow chart of Figure 14, and illustrates in order to go into seriously specific out-of-limitly, and the operator can select the out-of-limit mark at alarm on the branch road.

Figure 19 is associated with the flow chart of Figure 14, and illustrates when unexpected element produces and can provide square marks when out-of-limit.

Figure 20 is associated with the flow chart of Figure 14, and illustrates and select unexpected rubidium marking can make all out-of-limit demonstrations that specific unexpected element produced.

Figure 21 is associated with the flow chart of Figure 14, and at accident label shown in the control panel (Control Panel).

Embodiment

In each embodiment, the state of affairs cognition that the invention provides the control centre that is used to strengthen Utilities Electric Co. to be improving the system and method for energy conservation, to go into seriously possible the situation that can influence distributing electric power and to alleviate these possible situations before bust occurs, the current state of real-time application that advanced figure the learns electric power system to show one or more Utilities Electric Co.s is provided.The present invention proposes a kind of new and improved mode and comes and lower floor's application program design user interface irrespectively, shows the 3-D view of available megavar (MVAR) to utilize positive and negative idle deposit toolbar button as illustrated in fig. 13.

The present invention proposes a kind of new and improved mode and comes and lower floor's application program, algorithm or database design user interface irrespectively.Therefore main display window is crossed over the specific operation personnel's of some application programs task at meeting.Traditionally, operating personnel must navigate between different user interfaces to realize same purpose, even the productivity ratio meeting is much lower and the response time is also slower.

The present invention is directed to the distributed key task systems design of handling the mass data that per second refreshes in real time.These information systems can not be out of order and must can use at least 99.95% time.

The present invention also is designed to utilize the existing software application of the great majority that existed again in control centre.The low cost of safeguarding is by automatic generation display window with utilize existing assets (software and hardware) acquisition again.

System and method of the present invention can be used by the Utilities Electric Co. with the electric power system of including but not limited to.The present invention also can be used for water management system, petrochemical system, transportation system etc.Electric power system is configured to bring the terminal use with electric energy, and it comprises generating, transmission and distribution system.Can adopt satellite map in the present invention.

As shown in Figure 1, one embodiment of the present of invention have a kind of energy management system, and it comprises: the control centre at Utilities Electric Co. place; Be coupled to the logical resource of electric power system, it provides the real-time informing of the situation of the energy conservation that influences Utilities Electric Co.; And at least one user interface that is coupled to logical resource at the control centre place.User interface provides the real-time state of affairs cognition to possible energy conservation fault.These situations can be one or more in the energy, distribution, generating, transmission and the energy market system.

The state of affairs cognition of the application of the invention can provide real-time condition notification before appearance such as the bust that electric power is carried, calamitous generating, catastrophic transmission and energy market system.

State of affairs cognition be the sensation and/or comprehension, and be the sense of hearing and/or vision.State of affairs cognition (i) improves energy conservation, be convenient to go into seriously the situation of energy conservation that can influence, (ii) be convenient to distribution, generating, transmission and energy market system, (iii) alleviate the influence of the situation that can in energy conservation, produce fault and (iv) mitigation can produce and include but not limited to that electric power is carried, generating, transmit and the situation of the fault of energy market system.

Logical resource and user interface are coupled to the electric power system or the distribution system of Utilities Electric Co..Logical resource uses the most general view of government utility system and goes into seriously the more specifically view of government utility system.

Logical resource can be configured to be used at least a portion data and the configuration of the own existing software application that exists again in control centre.As non-limiting example, existing software application can comprise the information and/or the facility information of system's main electrical scheme, line chart.User interface provides specific operation personnel's task, and this task can scan one or several Utilities Electric Co.'s application programs and need not navigate between the different user interface of control centre.

User interface comprise the electric power system that shows one or more Utilities Electric Co.s current state, relax the one or more figure in the factor (mitigating factor) and the suggestion.User interface can comprise the advanced figure of the current state that shows generating, transmission and/or energy market system.User interface can be irrelevant with the energy conservation application program.In one embodiment, user interface produces automatically in response to data and configuration from existing software or existing software application.User interface can be the model-driven observation window, and wherein this model-driven observation window is in conjunction with the coordinate system based on the geographical co-ordinate system that includes but not limited to GIS etc.

One or more background panel can be provided with the relevant background data of facing with Utilities Electric Co. of the given state of affairs.One or more information systems that refresh in real time also can be provided.As non-limiting example, this information system can be depending on information and the state of affairs was refreshed in 1 second to 15 minutes time period.

In another embodiment of the present invention, shown in Fig. 2 and 3, the dynamic instrument board of the state of affairs is operated the graphical and dynamically foundation of personnel.State of affairs instrument board can be set up by Pop-up ground by the subclass of the different display windows of combination, form, single line (one-line), regional schematic overview and/or geographical general view.Logical resource makes operating personnel can schematically show window and website single line display window according to big geographical general view, zone setting up themselves instrument board, assesses the possible dangerous situation state of affairs that is in of electric power system with the auxiliary operation personnel.The display window part that falls into state of affairs instrument board display window can be utilized the live data real-time update.

As non-limiting example, possible be in that the dangerous situation state of affairs can be that the system of typical branch road is out-of-limit, the low pressure of the given area of low pressure, high pressure and/or triangle opening voltage, system or high pressure conditions, the actual or possible system that caused by megawatt or megavar are out-of-limit etc.State of affairs instrument board can be combined to by the subclass with different display windows, form, single line, schematic diagram, geographical general view etc. on the instrument panel area and set up in the course of the work.Instrument board can be preserved and be reusable, and possible to be in the dangerous situation state of affairs useful for identification.

Fig. 4 illustrates the customization instrument board of the present invention that comes from three different display windows.Operating personnel select interested display window.The segment of original display window is selected by rubber banding, and the zone of choosing is sheared (initiating by operator's " towing " operation) and pastes (initiating by operator's " placement " operation) then in instrument board.The various piece that falls into the display window on the instrument board display window continues real-time update.Consequently new instrument board display window.In case be established, instrument board can be saved and call after a while as arbitrary other display window in the system again, and utilizes live data to refresh.Being established the advantage that is used for specifically at the instrument board of the dynamic foundation of a state of affairs is that it allows operating personnel only to select the relevant information of being faced with operating personnel of the state of affairs.This has reduced operating personnel's workload, because operating personnel only need a pile display window being absorbed in relevant thing rather than having a large amount of irrelevant informations.This notion is very simple: the information that only will need to handle offers operating personnel, rather than all data that system has are offered operating personnel allows operating personnel constantly consult data then and extract required data.In case dynamically instrument board is established, they can be saved and be reused when the state of affairs occurs, thereby have eliminated settling time.

In one embodiment, pop-up box or data lensization are provided.Pop-up box is the effective means in a zone that is used for dynamically selecting the bigger observation display window of electric power system, or operating personnel's attentiveness guided to place that electric power system need pay close attention to or thing and can not lose any display window of observation of the whole electric power system of just monitored and control.

The operator is by selecting this zone to select him to expect the viewing area of paying close attention to rubber bar or lasso trick.Selected area-of-interest is sheared and pastes in the pop-up box.Pop-up box can be by the towing pop-up box the border and reset its size and be moved and reset size to strengthen the availability of pop-up box.

As shown in Figure 5, projection line can be plotted to pop-up box to keep to the quoting of source, so that operating personnel know the Reference source of pop-up box always from the source display window.Projection line can use with a plurality of pop-up boxs, and can follow the tracks of a plurality of states of affairs simultaneously.This is very important, because the operator can follow the tracks of a plurality of states of affairs simultaneously and must know background from each state of affairs of a plurality of states of affairs.Projection line offers operating personnel with background and the information about a plurality of states of affairs of the Reference source of pop-up box.

Little frame is a kind of pop-up box that is not fixed on the display window of source.Little frame can be organized into additional window with the overload conditions of monitoring on power transmission line or the customizing messages the low pressure situation.Fig. 6 illustrates the example of pop-up box and little frame.State of affairs cognitive principles can adopt with pop-up box.The use of pop-up box allows operating personnel to produce information display window and can not leave main observation window to realize purpose.This has strengthened providing the purpose based on the application program of the incident of use.Only provide the information of carrying out this required by task and do not provide can be with the out of Memory of its attentiveness from the task transfers that requires operating personnel and carry out to operating personnel.

Fig. 7 illustrates the example of the geographical general view with background layer, and it shows the aerial view in a zone.Also can use the selected background of operating personnel of other type such as jpeg and bitmap.In one embodiment, use geographical satellite to obtain geographical general view.Operating personnel then can be by different fritters (tile) pan and the convergent-divergent that occurs on the display window.

The viewable portion and the zoom level that depend on observation window obtain to mate the corresponding fritter of background from website.In case the acquisition fritter, it just by local cache so that improvement in performance and be shown as background layer.When operating personnel's pan and convergent-divergent display window, new fritter is retrieved and shows.Just to efficient, required fritter be written in the memory and in background as seen.

At depending on the optimum visual of display and control room illumination, operating personnel can utilize icon from toolbar is called the transparency that available dialog box is regulated background image.

Fig. 7 also illustrates navigator window and the amplifier when using.

As shown in Figure 8, in another embodiment of the present invention, provide the method that is used for setting up dynamic listing from the selection area of the electric power system of Utilities Electric Co..Energy management system is used for assessing one or more source display windows of website.In the display window of source one or more are selected to set up selection area from least a portion of source display window by rubber bar or lasso trick then.Dynamically set up the tabulation of form, it shows to come own to the user definition information at the various network elements type in the network element tabulation of the selection area of rubber bar or lasso trick selection.And unrestricted, network element can comprise transformer station, circuit, generator, capacitor, load, transformer, static reactive volt-ampere compensator and inductor etc. as illustration.These tabulations are at the dynamic key character of setting up with the system in the rapid acquisition selection area of operating personnel's selection area of electric power system.

In this embodiment, come rubber bar or lasso trick to select a zone on the display window by utilizing equipment such as mouse, operating personnel select a zone.All-network element in the selected area-of-interest is identified.

Selection area is drawn in the new control panel label and is placed in this label." drag and drop " action constitutes the new element tabulation that operating personnel go for the important information of key character.The new element tabulation is usually set up by the network element in the circumference of sign selection area.As non-limiting example, network element can be each website and each circuit in the border of selection area.

The information that constitutes key character is that operating personnel are definable.As non-limiting example, important information can be the website generating etc. of megavar flow, website load, megawatt and megavar level of energising situation, megawatt flow, the circuit of situation, the circuit of circuit.The present invention pays close attention to and fetches the nearest data that selection therewith is associated from energy management system, and makes its maintenance up-to-date automatically.In case new tabulation is set up, it can be saved and call so that use in the future.

Figure 9 illustrates the zone selects.Figure 10 illustrates the key character of chosen elements.

In one embodiment, system of the present invention automatically fills this tabulation and receives the significant data of all elements in this tabulation.Custom tabular can be named and be preserved so that use in the future.

Control panel can have the special label that is called " tabulation ", and it comprises the title in the zone that all customizations are set up.In a particular embodiment, control panel has megavar deposit label, and it comprises the title at the megavar deposit zone of the dynamic foundation of the selected region diagrammatic sketch of electric power system.

Refer now to Figure 11, the present invention also informs operating personnel, and where weary deposit (VAR reserve) is available and have how many weary deposits available.This is particularly useful for the operating personnel in the face of high pressure or low pressure situation.Under these circumstances, operating personnel need know whether exist in the zone that low pressure or high pressure conditions occur voluntarily sufficient weary, their are injected electric power system or from wherein removing.

In another embodiment of the present invention, provide the weary backlog control of utilization from the high pressure of the selection area of the electric power system of Utilities Electric Co. or the method for low pressure situation.Selected region is selected by rubber bar or lasso trick, and possible low pressure or high pressure conditions are identified.Control panel can comprise the background menu.The background menu can be used to show weary deposit.In case the zone is chosen, operating personnel just select option " to show deposit " to be presented at megavar deposit available in this zone from the background menu.For selected zone, the all-network element is by sign and produce the megavar deposit of inquiry to obtain to be associated with institute marked network element.The weary deposit of graphical display window and interpolation is overlapping to set up overlapping region display window, and this overlapping region display window is used for identifying possible low pressure or high pressure example in the selected area.

In one embodiment, the working voltage contour identifies possible low pressure or high pressure example.Overlapping region display window can be used to electric power system is provided can be real-time flow of power information and determine available weary deposit.The region display window can be used to determine low pressure or high-pressure situations significantly selected area partly or entirely in whether exist sufficient weary.

The position and the amount of available weary deposit are determined, and the real time information relevant with amount with the position of available weary deposit can be provided.

Available weary deposit can be shown as summary so that in the injected system or by for example device type sucking-off system of generator unit, capacitor group, reactor group and static weary system and so on.Figure 12 illustrates the megavar deposit instrument board that calculates automatically based on selection area.Produce the megavar deposit of inquiry to obtain to be associated with institute marked network element.

Injecting (Inject)/absorb (Absorb) idle deposit calculates based on following rule:

Generator unit (units): only consider not open or removed unit.Inject idle deposit and be (megavar maximum (MVAR MAX)-megavar output (MVAR Out)), and to absorb idle deposit be (megavar output (MVAR Out)-megavar minimum value (MVAR Min)).

Capacitor (Cap) group: only consider the capacitor do not removed from system.The summation of the nominal megavar of the capacitor that injects idle deposit and be open circuit or disconnect.Absorb idle deposit and be the summation of the nominal megavar of closed capacitor.

Reactor (Reactor) group: only consider the reactor do not removed from system.Inject idle deposit and be the summation of the nominal megavar of closed reactor.The summation of the nominal megavar of the reactor that absorbs idle deposit and be open circuit or disconnect.

Static reactive system (SVS): only consider non-open circuit or the SVS that does not remove from system.Inject idle deposit and be (megavar maximum-megavar output), and to absorb idle deposit be (megavar output-megavar).

The histogram that piles up provides the details about the megavar availability of each basic website and each device type of being associated with this website basis.The height of the vertical bar that trunnion axis is above represents to can be used for the amount from the megavar of this website injected system.The height of the vertical bar that trunnion axis is following represents to be used in this website absorbs the megavar of (removal) from system amount.For each website, the injection/uptake of the megavar that can be injected into or absorb is shown in this chart.

This chart sorts to the website with minimum available injection from the website with maximum available injections.Click on the vertical bar will make the single line of corresponding transformer station show and be called in the instrument panel area.Therefore operating personnel can utilize familiar SCADA chart to determine rapidly and need operate which equipment.(note: do not allow control action, single line is read-only demonstration.)

Utilize the present invention, as shown in figure 13, also might utilize the idle deposit toolbar button of positive and negative to show the three-dimensional views of available megavar.

Selection area can be stored in the deposit label in the control panel and be called so that use in the future again.In case called, display can automatically restore to its state when being saved, and the megavar deposit utilizes the most recently used instantaneous value to upgrade in whole system again.

As shown in figure 14, in another embodiment of the present invention, operating personnel can utilize the reliability assessment module to detect and analyze out-of-limit elementary event (base case violation).As shown in figure 15, if occur new out-of-limitly after state estimator (State Estimator) (SE) is carried out, then alarm is displayed in the viewing area.

If letter " SE " as seen, then state estimator has detected that one or more are new out-of-limit.In order to begin to analyze out-of-limit elementary event, operating personnel go up in alarm boards (Alert Panel) and select elementary event alarm (Base Case Alert) button.Subjectivity is examined display window and is updated to show out-of-limit mark.The voltage contour of the highest KV grade that voltage is out-of-limit is shown.Monitored element (Monitored Elements) label utilizes the list update of the monitored element in alarm, the out-of-limit or alarm condition.In observing display window, circles mark is used for representing out-of-limit.Branch road is out-of-limit be marked at branch road in present in the heart.The out-of-limit mark of voltage presents with out-of-limit being marked in the relevant transformer station of transformer.As an example and unrestricted, the example of following flag activation:

The red-label that has mark " 183.2N " Expression is to the branch road alarm (v-limit value=limit value * 1.832) of the megawatt value that surpasses normal limit 183.2%.

The red-label that has mark " 0.9N " on the white background

Expression is to the voltage alarm (v-limit value=0.09 * limit value) of the magnitude of voltage that surpasses normal limit 0.9%.

The orange mark that has mark (Δ 41.9E) on the white background

Expression is to the voltage drop out-of-limit (v-limit value=0.419 * limit value) of the voltage drop value that surpasses urgent limit value 41.9%.

Do not mark and have the red-label of white background

Expression has a plurality of out-of-limit of different out-of-limit types and at least one alarm.

Label symbol defines as follows:

Marker color is represented out-of-limit serious limit (warning=yellow, out-of-limit=orange, alarm=redness).

Mark is filled: white background is represented that voltage is out-of-limit and/or is had the multiple out-of-limit of different out-of-limit types.

Mark xxxS: suffix S represents the limit value (" N " expression is normal, " E " expression is urgent and " L " expression load bridging) of reference, and numeral surpasses this out-of-limit percentage with reference to limit value.If there is the prefix of Δ, then it is that voltage drop is out-of-limit.

If detect newly out-of-limitly with respect to last time operation, then around mark, present the ring of light.Operating personnel now can be specific out-of-limit by selecting out-of-limit mark to go into seriously.Only selected one will occur on display window, and all other out-of-limit mark will disappear.Same situation appears on the monitored element tags in the control panel, and it will only illustrate be associated with the mark of current selected out-of-limit.

Figure 16 illustrates the selected branch road alarm in branch road Douglas-Hanover (DOUGLAS-HANOVER).The control panel on the left side is being opened automatically in the tabulation of monitored element and is being located on this branch road.The element list that control panel is monitored illustrate with observe display window in all selected out-of-limit relevant significant datas.For each monitored element, its title and surpass is shown at top line by the largest percentage of out-of-limit limit value.

And unrestricted, each out-of-limit details can comprise as an illustration:

Be shown as the limit value of " Lxxx.xx "

Be shown as the currency of " Vxxx.xx "

Its out-of-limit percentage that surpasses limit value.

Under the situation of branch road, may there be two clauses and subclauses, terminal each one of each of branch road.

To each out-of-limit monitored element two icons can be arranged: one is used for observing location element on the display window, and one be used for calling the line that the instrument board label is associated and show to obtain more information.

In one embodiment of the invention, operating personnel can utilize the reliability assessment module to detect and analyze out-of-limit accident.As shown in figure 15, if carry out unexpected analyze (CA) occurs afterwards newly out-of-limit, then in upper right corner demonstration alarm.Operating personnel select unexpected alarm button to begin to analyze the back out-of-limit accident of being calculated as CA (Post Contingency Violation), element (Elements in Alarm), the out-of-limit or alarm condition in the alarm.The accident list update of the monitored element during the unexpected label utilization influence in the control panel is out-of-limit.

Examine the content that presents on the display window in subjectivity similar to elementary event, also increased following function:

Show the information that accident is relevant, and

Make relation between monitored element and the accident visual and it is assessed.

Utilize the combination of observing display window, control panel and out-of-limit toolbar filter (Violation toolbarfilter), it is out-of-limit that operating personnel can go into seriously the unexpected example in back according to figure and listings format.

As shown in figure 17, shown the mark that is associated with the unexpected monitored element in out-of-limit in back.

In the accident of back with the out-of-limit mark that is associated at the monitored element of observation on the display window have with elementary event in the identical implication of mark.

Specific out-of-limit in order to go into seriously, as shown in figure 18, operating personnel select the out-of-limit mark of the alarm in branch road Douglas-Hanover.

Control panel illustrates the following information of monitored element:

The title of monitored element;

Out-of-limit type;

Elementary event value (letter " V " is arranged before this value);

Back accident value (letter " P " is arranged before this value);

With the alarm that is presented, the out-of-limit or limit value that is associated of warning; And

Surpass limit value percentage (N: normal, E: urgent, L: load bridging).

In the CA application program, the accident element is an electric power system element of representing to define accident.When this accident element produces when out-of-limit, as shown in figure 19, square marks occurs in branch road or transformer station.Be applicable to the principle of identity that is used for out-of-limit mark:

As shown in the figure, color can be used to represent the out-of-limit order of severity (top it all off being set up by the accident element) under a plurality of out-of-limit situations, as described below:

White background: voltage is out-of-limit; And

No background: branch road is out-of-limit.

Label is described worst out-of-limit according to the mode as on the out-of-limit mark.

As shown in figure 20, select the accident rubidium marking will show that all of this specific accident element generation are out-of-limit.The tabulation (referring to monitored element tags) that influence is in the accident of the monitored element in alarm, the out-of-limit or alarm condition will automatically be opened and illustrate to the accident label.

Figure 21 illustrates the accident label in the control panel.

In one embodiment, for the various accidents in the label, title is rendered as tag entry.Two icons are near this title.An icon is positioned at the accident element to be observed on the display window, and another icon calls the relevant display window in the instrument board label.You can obtain the details relevant with accident by launching directory tree (promptly clicking "+" symbol on the title left side).The accident item of being expanded will show the tabulation of the monitored element that it has influence on.Utilize the standard the same that they are sorted with monitored element in the monitored element tags.

For those of ordinary skills, according to thinking and the enforcement of the present invention to specification disclosed herein, other embodiments of the invention will be apparent.This specification and example are intended to only be considered to exemplary, and true scope of the present invention and spirit are indicated by following claim.

Claims (26)

1. method that may be in the dangerous situation state of affairs that is used for assessing Utilities Electric Co. comprises:

One or more sources display window of access site;

Utilize pop-up box or data lensization that the part of described source display window is presented at the front; And

Utilize described pop-up box or data lensization to cause and guide described operating personnel's attentiveness and do not lose observation the whole electric power system of described Utilities Electric Co. to the attention that may be in the dangerous situation state of affairs.

2. the method for claim 1 is characterized in that, described source display window is selected from observation window and other display window.

3. the method for claim 1 is characterized in that, also comprises:

By setting up described pop-up box from the interested selection area of described source display window cut and paste.

4. the method for claim 1 is characterized in that, also comprises:

Move described pop-up box.

5. method as claimed in claim 4 is characterized in that, also comprises:

Adjust the size of described pop-up box.

6. method as claimed in claim 5 is characterized in that, also comprises:

The size of towing and adjustment pop-up box.

7. method as claimed in claim 6 is characterized in that, also comprises:

The size of adjusting described pop-up box is to strengthen the availability of described pop-up box.

8. the method for claim 1 is characterized in that, also comprises:

Draw one or more projection line from described source display window to described pop-up box to keep quoting to described source.

9. method as claimed in claim 8 is characterized in that, also comprises:

Utilize one or more projection line to come to provide the information of the Reference source of relevant described pop-up box to described operating personnel.

10. method as claimed in claim 8 is characterized in that, also comprises:

Use described projection line with a plurality of pop-up boxs.

11. method as claimed in claim 10 is characterized in that, also comprises:

Utilize described projection line to follow the tracks of a plurality of states of affairs simultaneously.

12. method as claimed in claim 11 is characterized in that, described projection line provides cognition to the background of a plurality of states of affairs to described operating personnel.

13. the method for claim 1 is characterized in that, described pop-up box is the little frame that is not fixed on the display window of described source.

14. the method for claim 1 is characterized in that, also comprises:

Utilization is organized into the little frame of window and monitors customizing messages.

15. method as claimed in claim 14 is characterized in that, described customizing messages from power system component overload situations or the system status at least one in select.

16. the method for claim 1 is characterized in that, also comprises:

Utilize the cognition of the described pop-up box request state of affairs.

17. method as claimed in claim 16 is characterized in that, also comprises:

Allow described operating personnel to produce information display window and do not leave main source display window.

18. the method for claim 1 is characterized in that, at least one source display window is the geographical observation window with background layer of the aerial view that described zone is shown.

19. the method for claim 1 is characterized in that, described at least one source display window has the background of selecting in from jpeg and bitmap at least one.

20. the method for claim 1 is characterized in that, at least one source display window background is from geographical satellite.

21. the method for claim 1 is characterized in that, at least one source display window has zoom level, and the corresponding fritter that wherein is used to mate background obtains from described website.

22. method as claimed in claim 21 is characterized in that, described fritter by high-speed cache so that improvement in performance and be shown as background layer.

23. method as claimed in claim 21 is characterized in that, also comprises: when described operating personnel use described zoom level, show new fritter.

24. method as claimed in claim 23 is characterized in that, only required fritter be written in the memory and in described background as seen.

25. the method for claim 1 is characterized in that, also comprises:

Regulate the transparency of background image.

26. method as claimed in claim 26 is characterized in that, utilizes the scrolling bar in the control board to regulate described transparency, the icon that described scrolling bar can be used for from the toolbar calls.

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