MiPower
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MiPower
Power System Software Package
Planning
Analysis
Design
Simulation
Verification
Power Systems
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MiPower - An Introduction
MiPower – An Introduction
MiPower is the state-of-the-art Windows based Power Systems Software. MiPower is
highly interactive, user-friendly software for all analysis, planning, design and simulation of
any given Power System irrespective of the geographical and environmental constraints.
MiPower is widely used by Consultants, Power utilities, State Electricity Authorities and
Academic & Research Institutes for more than a decade.
MiPower is armed with robust power system engine in the backend and a lucid top-notch
Windows GUI in the front-end. Approach, technique & methodology employed are field
proven & time-tested. These conforms with standard ANSI, IEEE, IEC and other worldwide
accepted standards. All power system data is centrally maintained with an industry
standard relational database. Core power systems engine includes
Single Phase Load Flow Three Phase Load Flow Short Circuit
Transient Stability Over Current Relay Co-ordination Distance Relay Co-ordination
Voltage Instability Harmonic Analysis Dynamic Stability
Network Reduction Sub-synchronous Resonance Electro-Magnetic Transients
Long Term Load Forecast Line & Cable Parameter Ground Grid Design
MiPower helps in dealing with a wide range of power system problems. Highly intuitive
Graphical User Interface smoothens the learning curve to a great extent. With MiPower,
Power System Engineers can become productive with minimum effort / time and results are
emphatically visible.
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About the Developers
About the Developers
Highlights
Highly qualified Several Phd. MTech. ME, BE
Hard Core Power Systems Expertise Dealt with several hundred cases
Experts in Software Technologies Microsoft Certified Professionals
Experience Domain Expertise of 3 to 30+ years
PRDC is a dynamic organization with core-expertise in power sector in providing lucid
solutions for highly complex power system problems. PRDC's strong team comprises of
highly qualified (Phds, MTechs), experienced and dedicated people. Core team
involves experts in their respective domains like power systems & software technology
with an experience of Three to Thirty years. PRDC is managed by highly qualified
technocrats with doctorates from world renowned Indian Institute Of Science, Bangalore,
India.
The mission is to provide state-of-the-art power system solutions. PRDC is in the fore-front
in lending its services to Power sector in the form of System Planning & Studies mainly
to the State Electricity Authorities and Utilities.
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MiPower - At a Glance
Screen Shot
4 Level
Security Main Screen Shot
PS Network
Editor
Central Database
Ground
Manager Batch Mode
Grid Design
Interface
Automatic
SLD
Line & Generation
Cable
Multi-Graph Params
Plotter
PS Engines
E.g. LF, SC,
AutoCAD TRS
Export / Import Control Systems
Long Term Modeler cum
Load Forecast Simulator
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Four level Security
Four Level Security
Access Levels
Super User
Element Editor
Library Editor
Viewer
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MiPower - At a Glance
MiGUI - Power System Network Editor
MiGUI – Power System Network Editor
Key Features
• All IEEE / IEC standard symbols
• Real-time Zooming / panning
• Single click Database Link
• Display of study results with SLD
• Dynamic load flow
• Creation of Contingencies
• Nested Networks
• Multi-Layers
• Save / Load snapshot
• Find a Bus / Node
• Element in-service / out-of-service
• User configurable base voltages
• Dynamic IEEE / IEC switch
• Object Z-Order control
Standard Features • Integrated database
• Multi-document support
• • Invoke any study - LFA, SCS…
Context Sensitive Help
• Cut / Paste / Undo / Redo • and more…..
• Ortho mode for drawing / moving objects
• Dynamic Text fonts
• Rotation / Resizing / WYSIWYG Print preview
• Print / Plot onto any Windows support printer / plotter
• Supported sizes A4 - A0
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MiDBase - Central Database Manager
MiDBase - Central Database
Key Features
• Centralized for Elements & Library
• User friendly, Interactive forms
Manager
• Solid validated library of Relays,
Breakers, Generators, AVR, SVC,
Fuse, Line & Cable etc.
• Distinct element & connectivity data
• Entry in Per Unit [PU] or own rating
• Unlimited number of contingencies
• Invoke any study - LFA, SCS...
• Apply global multification factor
• Apply global reduction factor
• Integrated AVR, PSS, TG, SVC
• Custom HVDC, AVR, PSS, TG SVC
• User defined unlimited branch filters
• User defined load characteristics
• Present worth calculation
• Generator capability curves
• Standard & Custom reports
Standard Features • Additional MIS reports
• Context Sensitive Help
• Quick Find • Creation of sub-DB from master DB
• Global modification of any data • and more…..
• Tabular listing of any data
• Industry standard data navigation tools
• Deleted record tracking
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MiBatch - Text to DB / DB to Text
MiBatch - Text to DB / DB
MiBatch aids in conversion of plain ASCII data into standard database & vice-versa.
to Text
Key Features
• Creation of central database
using available plain ASCII
data files
• Easy import / export of data in
plain ASCII text
• Single click deletion of
obsolete network data from
central database
• Aids quick printing of any
standard library
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MiGraph - Multi-graph Plotter
MiGraph - Multi-graph Key Features
• Linear, semi-log, log scale
Plotter
• Curve Tracing
• Superimpose multiple graphs
• User defined X - Y axis labels
• Device co-ordination using curves
• Harmonic Analysis of obtained graphs
• Math operations on obtained curves
• Use of Symbols for curve identification
• Flexible Axis alignment
• Provision for modifying data any time
Standard Features
• Context Sensitive Help
• Fonts & User defined X - Y axis lables
• Standard WUSIWYG Print-preview / Print
• User defined Background color
• Export to AutoCAD
• Zoom facility
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MiFPB - Free Programmable Blocks
MiFPB - Free Key Features
• General Purpose Modeling tool
Programmable Blocks
• Time domain analysis of any control
block
• Stand alone simulation
• Simulation when integrated with
power system
• 50 types of nodes
• 30 elementary blocks
• Standard Disturbance Simulation
• Design of Compensators
• Design of PID Controllers
• AVR, Governor, SVC, HVDC and
FACTS simulation
• Under Load Tap Changer simulation
• Compatible with MiPower’s
Transient stability module
• and more…..
Standard Features
• Multi-document support
• Context Sensitive Help
• Cut / Paste / Undo / Redo
• Ortho mode for drawing / moving objects
• Dynamic Text fonts
• Rotation / Resizing / WYSIWYG Print preview
• Print / Plot onto any Windows support printer / plotter
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Load Flow Analysis
Feature Highlights Load Flow Analysis
• Efficient memory management using sparsity technique.
• Load values, scheduled generation, reactor and
• Slack bus, Frequency dependent, Optimal and capacitor values can be changed globally or zone wise
contingency ranking using reduction factors.
• Fast-DeCoupled, Newton - Raphson and Gauss - Seidel • Generator Q - check limit violations after a specified
methods number of iterations.
• Frequency dependent with Flat Tie-Line, Flat Frequency • Changing the load model from the given type to
and Flat Tie-Line Frequency Bias Control impedance type automatically, when the voltage
• Active / Real Optimal load flow magnitude at load bus goes below specified value to
• Reactive Optimal load flow have better and realistic convergence.
• Active/Real and Reactive load flow • MVAR compensation
• AC-DC load flow • Load shedding during under frequency to maintain the
• Looped, radial and Multiple Isolated systems frequency at desired value.
• User-defined number of contingencies, cases • Standard and Custom reports
• User-defined filters, load characteristics, Generator
capability curves
• User-defined frequency and base MVA
• Transmission line can be opened at one or both sides A
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• Representation of shunt elements in admittance mp n
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• Two / Multi - terminal HVDC systems res
• Modeling six/twelve pulse monopolar / bipolar HVDC
converters with constant voltage/current/power controls.
• Modeling two and three winding transformers with auto
tap, off nominal fixed tap and phase shift
• Grouping buses zone/area wise
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Short Circuit Analysis
Feature Highlights
Short Circuit Analysis
• ANSI / IEEE standards • Multiplication factors for unknown zero and
• IEEE Std 141-1986[4] negative -sequence parameters
• IEEE C37,010-1979[1] • Positive, negative, zero sequence current
• IEEE C37.5-1979 [3] & fault-MVA
• IEEE C7010-1979 • Phase A, B, C current and fault MVA
• IEC 363 • Peak Asymmetrical current, Fault impedance R/x
• IEC 909 ratio
• Symmetrical and Asymmetrical faults • Post-fault bus voltages, currents and impedance
• Faults with and without impedance as seen at the relay positions
• Loop, radial systems • Breaker fault interrupting capacity selection
• Multi islanding • User defined Output units
• Multi generation • Custom reports
• Multi cases and contingencies
• Open conductor faults
• Travelling shunt faults
• Fault at all / selected buses sequentially
• Fault at selected voltage level/s
• Earthing & Zigzag transformers
• First cycle and interrupting fault rating
• Reactor Sizing
• Alerts breaker capacity violation
• Motor contribution to faults
• HVDC system contribution to faults
• Pre-fault voltage condition from the load flow/flat start
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Transient Stability Analysis
Transient Stability Analysis
Feature Highlights
• Unlimited number of disturbances • User defined load characteristics
• Types of disturbances • Modeling of six pulse / twelve pulse monopolar /
• Three phase fault bipolar HVDC converters with constant voltage /
• Single line to ground fault current / power controls
• Transformer parameter variation • Different levels of load shedding
• Transmission line parameter variation • User-defined AVR’ s, Turbine-governors, SVCs and
• Load change HVDC, ULTC controls
• Generator tripping • Text and Graphical Output
• Total generation outage
• Excitation loss
Sample Swing Curve
• Shunt impedance change
• Motor Start and Stop
• Motor starting with
• Auto transformer
• Star delta
• Direct Online - DOL
• Resistance
• Synchronous machine models
• Voltage relays, frequency relays & distance relays
• Standard IEEE voltage regulators,
• Standard IEEE steam/hydro/gas turbine governors
• Standard IEEE power system stabilizer
• Standard IEEE static VAR compensators
• Modeling cyclic loads, like rolling mills
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Protective Device Co-ordination
Protective Device Co-
Feature Highlights
• Relay co-ordination for radial and mesh
Overcurrent & Impedance / Distance Protection
• Choice of transient/Sub-transient for Fault
networks
ordination
• Automatic / Interactive / Manual Primary-
back-up relay pairs generation
• Save and retrieval of selected relay pairs
calculation
• Fault through impedance
• Fault on bus/node/Transmission line
• Optional inclusion of motor contribution
• Fault calculation is a part of relay co- during fault simulation
ordination program • Discrimination time calculator
• Phase and Earth relay co-ordination • L-G, L-L-L, L-L, L-L-G fault simulation
• Optimum setting for Motor relays. Hot and • Zone 1, zone 2 and zone 3 setting for
cold curves considered distance relays
• Extensive relays data base • Impedance seen by the relay for faults
• Extensive fuse data
• Easy interface for adding new relay to library Sample Co-ordinated curve
• Graphical co-ordination - Pick, drag and drop
characteristic curves
• Verification of existing relay settings
• Fault simulation and relay tripping sequence
• Text and Graphical Output
• Export to Autocad
• Thermal curves for each equipment
• Option of Voltage initialization by load flow or
flat start
• Overload factor, unbalance factor and
discrimination time for each relay
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Voltage Instability Analysis
Voltage Instability Analysis
Feature Highlights
Voltage Instability Analysis
• Assess the risk of voltage instability
• L-Index computation
• Margin of instability during sudden disturbances
• Ranks the load buses based on the L-index value
• Voltage dependency of loads is accounted while modeling loads
• Voltage/reactive power sensitivity risk indices
• Voltage collapse proximity indicator
• Graphical report of voltage instability for better analysis
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Harmonic Analysis
Feature Highlights Harmonic Analysis
• Three-phase harmonic load flow to compute harmonic distortion factors
• Harmonic transfer and driving point impedance for both transmission and distribution power systems
• Instantaneous and RMS voltage/current sources are considered
• Representation of user defined loads
• Characteristic to model realistic loads such as arc furnace, rolling mills and non-linear devices
• HVDC converter is modeled as a current source
• User defined filters are supported
• Individual voltage distortion
• Total voltage distortion
• Telephone influence factor ( TIF )
• Generator / motor harmonic current Ig
• Self and transfer harmonic network impedance
• Harmonic bus voltages and line currents
• Harmonic power flows through filters and lines etc.
• Graphs of phase and line-to-line voltages and currents versus time and frequency, harmonic
impedance versus frequency.
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Dynamic Stability Analysis
Dynamic Stability Analysis
Feature Highlights
• Dynamic stability analysis for the given power
system in both frequency domain (Eigen value
analysis) and time domain.
• Initial condition obtained from Load flow
• Generator modelling includes the controllers.
• Eigen values are computed for the system
• Disturbance set
• Change in reference angle
• Reference voltage
• Reference power
• Reference speed.
• Used defined number of cases
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Network Reduction
Feature Highlights
Network Reduction
• Static and dynamic equivalents for the power system.
• Static Equivalent - bus admittance matrix (Ybus) as seen from the desired nodes
• Dynamic Equivalent -single machine equivalent circuit
• Automatic generation of Sub-Database for reduced network
• Load flow output is considered to establish the initial condition
• Buses to be retained are selected individually or zone/area wise
• Output for both Ybus and Zbus matrices for the reduced system
• Impedance values of additional series and shunt connections
• Output includes equivalent generator's inertia, power, voltage and impedance
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Sub-Synchronous Resonance
Sub-Synchronous Resonance
Feature Highlights
• Frequency response method
• Many synchronous machines
• Extensive series compensated transmission network
• Simultaneous detailed modeling of all machine shafts and control loops
• Stability of the system is examined by the Nyquist plot
• Maximum of 20 masses can be represented in the turbine shaft model
• Mode shapes are computed for the turbine shaft
• Frequency can be varied from a minimum value to a maximum value at user defined step value
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Electro Magnetic Transient Analysis
Electro Magnetic Transient
Feature Highlights
Analysis
• Designed to perform both for transient and dynamic over
voltage studies
• Highest discharge currents and energy stresses for the
protective equipment
• Over voltages caused due to energization of lines,
transformers and shunt elements, during fault inception and
on clearing of faults
• Modeling of transmission line, resistor, series reactor, series
capacitor, synchronous machines, induction motors,
transformer with magnetizing component, shunt reactor
(including saturation), shunt capacitor, instantaneous voltage
and current sources, RMS voltage and current sources,
lightning arrestors
• Statistical analysis of breaker closing and opening
• Symmetrical and asymmetrical faults with fault impedance
• Time varying resistor
• Impulse voltage/current can be injected at a bus as
disturbance
• Facility exists to incorporate user defined filters
• Three phase over voltage profiles
• Statistical distribution of over voltages
• Arrester voltage, current and energy
• Current through different equipment
• Voltages at different equipment
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Long Term Load Forecast
Long Term Load Forecast
• Forecasts the energy demand during the planning stages of a
power system.
• Can be applied for any type of load data
• Can accommodate any number of independent variables
• Multivariate regression techniques for the forecasting
• Uses the past data for the estimation of dependent variables with
least error
• Based on the user input value, the forecasting model is selected.
Feature Highlights • Facility to accommodate more than one independent variable
(maximum 18) like, population, per-capita income, number of
consumers, etc
• In the same data file it is possible to define more than one
dependent variable (maximum 18) for example total electricity
consumption by different categories like, domestic, commercial,
and agriculture etc
• Capable of selecting the best model out of various models
• Facility to accommodate maximum of 48 observations for each
category
• Output includes reports and bar graph files
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Line & Cable Parameter Calculation
Line & Cable Parameter Feature Highlights
Calculation
• Calculates the positive, negative and zero sequence
parameters of overhead lines
• Calculates the positive, negative and zero sequence
parameters of Under Ground Cables
• Single and multi phase configurations
• Wide range of user defined frequencies and temperatures
• Calculates the mutual impedance between power and
communication lines
• Supports 6 circuits for 3 phase line and 3 circuits for 6
phase line
• DC line parameter computation
• Transposed and untransposed Line parameters
• MKS and FPS units
• Impedance in Ohms per km or Ohms
• Impedance for entire line length or pu per km or pu for the
entire line length
• Frequency varied from minimum to maximum value at user
defined step
• Cable parameter calculation for both single core and 3
core cables
• Earth return path through ground or through ground and
sheath or through sheath
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Electrowatt Ekono, U.K • MONENCO AGRA Inc. CANADA
Canadian Power Consultants – Canada • ALSTOM T&D - France
Asea Brown Boveri Limited (ABB), Bangalore.
Development Consultants Limited (DCL), Calcutta
CESC Limited, Calcutta
National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), New Delhi
State
Water and Power Consultancy Services (India) Ltd. (WAPCOS), NewElectricity
Delhi Authorities
Bhutan Power Corporation
Zimbabwe State Electricity Authority
Qatar Water & Electricity Authority
Assam State Electricity Board (ASEB)
Chhattisgarh State Electricity Board (CSEB)
Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB)
Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Ltd. (KPTCL)
Orissa State Electricity Board (OSEB)
Ahmedabad Electrical Company Ltd.,
Industry
Orissa State Hydro Power Corporation (OHPC)
Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), Hazira, Gujarat
Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Ltd. (UPPCL)
Kvaerner Power Gas India limited, Mumbai
Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Vitaran Nigam Ltd. (RRVPNL)
Bharat Heavy Electrical Limited (BHEL), New Delhi
West Bengal State Electricity Board (WBSEB)
Nuclear Power Corporation (NPC), Mumbai
Fact Engineering & Design Organization, Cochin
Hindalco Industries Ltd., Renusagar, U.P
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd., Visakhapatnam, A.P
R & D and Training Institutes
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Central Power Research Institute (CPRI), Bangalore
Power System Training Institute (PSTI),
C.E.A., Ministry of Power, Bangalore
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