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Why To Use Power System Analysis Software

Power system analysis software is used to evaluate the planning, design, and operation of industrial and commercial power systems through engineering studies. Complex power systems require computer programs for accurate analysis that would be impractical to do manually. Modern power system analysis software can model an entire system, perform load flows, identify overloads, check voltages, and conduct protection coordination, arc flash, and transient stability studies to optimize performance and prevent failures.

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Why To Use Power System Analysis Software

Power system analysis software is used to evaluate the planning, design, and operation of industrial and commercial power systems through engineering studies. Complex power systems require computer programs for accurate analysis that would be impractical to do manually. Modern power system analysis software can model an entire system, perform load flows, identify overloads, check voltages, and conduct protection coordination, arc flash, and transient stability studies to optimize performance and prevent failures.

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Why To Use

Power System Analysis Software


Why To Use PSA Software
❑ The planning, design, and operation of industrial and commercial power
systems require engineering studies to evaluate existing and proposed
system performance, reliability, safety and economics.
❑ Studies, properly conceived and conducted, are a cost-effective way to
prevent surprises and to optimize equipment selection
❑ During design stage, the studies identify and avoid potential deficiencies
in the system before it goes into operation
❑ In existing system, the studies help locate the cause of equipment failure
and maloperation and determine corrective measures for improving
system performance.
Why To Use PSA Software
❑ Hand calculations are suitable for estimating the operating characteristics
of a few individual circuits
❑ Complex power system analysis work requires the use of computers and
specialized programs.
❑ Accurate calculation of voltages, power flows, or short-circuit currents
throughout an industrial or commercial power system would be
impractical without the use of computer programs
❑ The complexity of modern industrial power systems makes studies
difficult, tedious, and time-consuming to perform manually
❑ The computational tasks associated with power systems studies have been
greatly simplified using digital computer programs
❑ Increases productivity
❑ Eliminates or minimizes errors compared to the manual calculations
PSA Software - Capabilities
❑ Softwares often produced erroneous results that engineers could identify
❑ Now, softwares have gone through many validations and much more
reliable
❑ Become more user-friendly and capable
❑ Set up system SLD with complete switchgear details, cables, transformers
and other electrical components with their actual electrical parameters
❑ Software provides results like load flows, alerts for overloaded
equipments, voltage violations at plant bus etc.
❑ Software also calculates short circuit ratings at all points of electrical
system and perform various studies such as selective protection
coordination, arc flash, motor starting, transient stability
PSA Software - Capabilities
❑ Power system software has advanced to link together with a suite of
multiple discipline suite of other software
❑ Electrical engineers are increasingly interested in being able to mesh link
electrical work with that of mechanical, civil, piping, and other
disciplines.
❑ These inter linked packages have enabled engineers to do standard things
like tracking cable runs, calculating voltage drops, and maintaining
equipment load lists
❑ One of the main benefits will be to keep everyone involved in a project in
the same database rather than in individually generated spreadsheets
PSA Software - Capabilities
❑ Everything that engineers do will be captured in a database and used to
produce drawings, templates, reports, specifications or whatever is
needed.
❑ It will take care of all the calculations, track revisions, and alert our users
to changes in other designs that could affect our work, such as motor
sizes.
❑ Softwares Popularly Used
❖ ETAP
❖ CYME
❖ EDSA
❖ SKM POWER
❖ PSS/E
❖ DigSilent

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