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NIWeek Energy Technology Summit August 4-5: You, Me, Duke Energy, American Electric Power and Many More
07-24-2015 08:41 AM
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I hope you'll join me, Duke Energy, American Electric Power, Oak Ridge National Labs, AREVA, and more for two days of collaboration and information exchange in Austin, Texas this August 4-5, 2015-- sharing lessons learned and valuable tips and tricks from field deployments of NI LabVIEW RIO technology on the power grid.
NIWeek Energy Technology Summit
Keep up with the latest NI innovations and network with your peers at the NIWeek Energy Technology Summit. Attend this summit to share knowledge and valuable lessons learned in the field with a global group of smart grid developers and researchers. This year’s topics include cyber security, microgrid control, grid-wide solar installations, on-grid battery storage and test systems, PMU deployments, and condition monitoring for energy asset maintenance. Also explore a case study using the new NI System on Module (SOM) to design an intelligent controller for solar technology and attend a Grid Automation System “under the hood” session presented by NI system developers. Meet many members of the NI R&D, marketing, and business development teams who work on energy tools and applications every day and learn about the latest NI tools, technologies, and platforms that can help you innovate and meet your ever-evolving energy challenges.
Who Should Attend?
Power systems engineers; researchers; professors; grid operators who want to learn about measurement, control, and protocol technology for the next generation of intelligent devices; students with a power focus or interest in smart grid tech; entrepreneurs; industry technologists; green energy and utility-focused media; and companies or utilities with custom equipment needs.
Energy Technology Summit Features
- Two days of technical sessions
- Full access to NIWeek 2015 conference (exhibit floor, keynotes, sessions, and conference party)
Company | Session Title | Presenter |
Tresys Technology | Securing Critical CompactRIO Systems Using Security Enhanced Linux | Charles Zaloom – VP |
NI | Open Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) Application from NI built on LabVIEW | Sushrutha Ravish – Sr. Systems Engineer |
ELCOM, a.s. | Deploying PMUs and a Wide Area Monitoring System in Eastern Europe Using cRIO | Daniel Kaminsky, PhD – Division Director |
American Electric Power | New Challenges to Integrate more Wind Energy – Why AEP is Designing a Custom Relay | Yanfeng Gong, PhD – Sr. Engineer |
Bloomy | Energy Storage Performance Test on the Scale of Megawatts | Peter Blume – President |
JKI | Designing the Next Generation of Grid Energy Storage With LabVIEW | Javier Ruiz – Sr. Project Engineer |
| Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) | Advanced Grid Research Activities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Mark Buckner, PhD – Group Leader |
Schmidt Electrik | How the NI System on Module (SOM) Helped with 80% Energy Efficiency from Solar "Sunflower" | Marco Schmidt – Owner |
SERIS | Floating Solar Photovoltaic Monitoring Systems in Singapore | Andre Nobre – Head PV System Tech |
SERIS | Live Solar Irradiance Map for Photovoltaic Applications in Singapore | Mark Kubis – Sr. Engineer |
Group NIRE | Implementing Distribution Control with Concentration of Wind and Storage | Mark Harral - CEO |
OPX Consulting | Cooling Tower Vibration Monitoring | Jay Rosen – VP Reliability Programs |
AREVA, Gmbh. | Remote Monitoring and Management of Plant Assets Using Distributed CompactRIO Systems | Francis Wamba-Fomi, PhD – Project Manager |
Westinghouse | Monitoring the Safest and Most Economical Nuclear Power Plant Commercially Available | Thomas Spears – Project Manager |
Duke Energy | Helping Solve Grid Challenges with Internet of Things (IoT) Technologies | Stuart Laval, PhD – Smart Grid Technology Manager |
Tuesday August 4th, 2015
Securing Critical CompactRIO Systems Using Security Enhanced Linux (TS6597)
Tuesday: 1:00PM – 2:00PM Ballroom G
Bob Leigh – CEO, LocalGrid
Charles Zaloom – Vice President - Commercial Sector, Tresys Technology
Discover the new security tools built into CompactRIO to support critical application security. We present a case study using NI Alliance Partner LocalGrid, who worked with our R&D group and security engineering company Tresys to create a virtual remote terminal unit (RTU) compliant with NERC-CIP V5 that manages smart power grid control over Internet. Considered part of US critical infrastructure, Smart Grids are subject to North American Energy Reliability Corporation Critical Infrastructure Protection (NERC-CIP) regulations. Discover the new SELinux capabilities in cRIO and see how LocalGrid and Tresys are using this technology to protect against advanced cyber attacks and meet industrial security requirements like yours.
Open Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) Application from NI Built on LabVIEW (TS7140)
Tuesday: 2:15PM – 2:45PM Ballroom G
Sushrutha Ravish – Sr. Systems Engineer, National Instruments
Come hear directly from the software developers about the new Open PMU software from NI. Learn about an advanced architecture for cRIO based monitoring systems that is often used by NI systems engineering. This specific system includes high speed waveform measurement, GPS time synchronization, FPGA filtering and resampling, power measurement processing on the host controller, protocol communication, touch-screen programming, and a thin-client web services based interface. The PMU application will help research and utility professionals, but the overall architecture is useful to any programmer who works on waveform based monitoring systems.
Deploying PMUs and a Wide Area Monitoring System in Eastern Europe Using CompactRIO (TS7239)
Tuesday: 2:45PM – 3:15PM Ballroom G
Daniel Kaminsky, PhD – Division Director, ELCOM, a.s.
Come see how phasor measurement units (PMUs) were deployed as part of a wide area monitoring system (WAMS) by Czech and Slovak transmission system operators. Learn more about the particular architectures directly from an NI integrator that helped this large team realize this system success. Looking to the future, see how the WAMS could potentially be combined with a power quality measurement system for even more grid information. The core of these instruments is built on NI reconfigurable I/O hardware and the LabVIEW graphical programming environment.
New challenges to integrate more wind energy – Why AEP is designing a Custom Relay (TS8691)
Tuesday: 3:30PM – 4:00PM Ballroom G
Yanfeng Gong, PhD – Senior Engineer, American Electric Power (AEP)
AEP, the largest transmission system operator in the US, is designing a custom protection relay in-house using CompactRIO and LabVIEW to protect the power system from the Sub-synchronous Oscillation (SSO) resulted from the resonance between the renewable generation sources (primarily wind) control systems and the series compensated transmission lines. Under-damped power system oscillation could cause significant damage to the turbines and endanger the stability of the power system. Attend this session to learn about some of these specific challenges and hear from the electrical power engineers how AEP designed a custom relay to help protect critical assets using NI platforms.
Implementing Distribution Control with Concentration of Wind and Storage (TS8281)
Tuesday: 4:00PM – 4:30PM Ballroom G
Mark Harral - CEO, Group NIRE
Group NIRE’s testing facility has successful implemented an electric distribution control strategy for an electric grid with high concentrations of wind and energy storage systems. The distribution control strategy utilizes multiple connection points with 9.4MW of generators.
The testing facility utilizes the following for its distribution control strategy:
- $1.5M upgraded distribution electrical lines carrying power to consumer loads over a 15sq miles;
- 9.4MW of wind turbine generators which included GE, Alstom, Gamesa, and Vestas Wind Turbines;
- Phasor measurement units and network sampling electric grid 20-30 times a second;
- Weather forecasting and cyber security systems;
Designing the Next Generation of Grid Energy Storage with LabVIEW (TS7172)
Tuesday: 4:45PM – 5:45PM Ballroom G
Javier Ruiz – Senior Project Engineer, JKI
Ryan Talbot – Senior Software Engineer, JKI
Primus Power’s modular EnergyFarm energy storage system required the development of an advanced control system to drive the high-speed switching of a distributed powertrain. Primus Power designed a power conversion system featuring 16 CompactRIO devices and partnered with JKI to architect and develop the control logic in LabVIEW software. The solution based purely on the LabVIEW Real-Time and LabVIEW FPGA modules allowed for extremely short iteration cycles, which made it possible to move the powertrain from prototype into a shipping product in a fraction of the time compared with traditional FPGA development. At this session, explore the challenges and the solution for this distributed high-speed control system.
Wednesday August 5th, 2015
Advanced Grid Research Activities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (TS7997)
Wednesday: 10:30AM – 11:30AM Ballroom G
Mark Buckner, PhD – Group Leader, Power and Energy Systems Research Group, UT-Battelle
This presentation describes research activities and initiatives at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and how they are being integrated to develop a comprehensive data-driven, open, collaborative, framework for advanced grid research. Four projects will be described:
- SI-GRID (Software-defined Intelligent Grid Research Integration and Development platform) a low-voltage, 3-phase, microgrid research platform;
- Continuous Data-Driven Model Development Framework which combines machine learning/optimization and real-time co-simulation-to-device model/control parameters;
- Grid-SEER (Grid Self-Aware Elastic Extensible Resiliency) an FPGA-based real-time or faster, high fidelity, grid simulator
- CSEISMIC (Complete System-level Efficient and Interoperable Solution for Microgrid Integrated Controls).
How the NI SOM helped Achieve 80% Energy Efficiency from Solar "Sunflower" (TS6057)
Wednesday: 1:00PM – 2:00PM Ballroom G
Marco Schmid – Owner, SCHMID ELEKTRONIK AG (CH)
Many who value LabVIEW as a rapid application development tool are skeptical to apply it in the cost sensitive deeply embedded domain. This session demonstrates how the sbRIO-9651 System on Module (SOM) works as the system's brain in a highly efficient, compact and fully autonomous solar energy plant, the "sunflower". Learn how to add custom hardware to the module, design and implement low-level device drivers and ensure reliable 24/7 operation using the FPGA. Take away the lessons learned how to master a complex embedded-application that connects to dozens of sensors, controls a dual-axis stepper motor and communicates with an enterprise network.
Floating Solar Photovoltaic Monitoring Systems in Singapore (TS7198)
Wednesday: 2:15PM – 2:45PM Ballroom G
Andre Nobre – Head of PV System Technology, SERIS
Singapore’s energy diversification dreams are limited by its scarcity of land (~710 km2 of country area with 5.5 million inhabitants), so new ideas are needed on where solar photovoltaic systems ultimately get deployed. A new idea in not only Singapore but worldwide is using floating photovoltaic systems on water bodies. These multimillion-dollar assets need to be properly monitored for their welfare on water. The proposed system uses an inertial measurement unit to track each platform’s 6 degrees of freedom motion. Using a CAN interface between sensors and the CompactRIO hardware and LabVIEW software, engineers and stakeholders can supervise several floating systems on a 1 MW testbed project.
Live Solar Irradiance Map for Photovoltaic Applications in Singapore (TS7197)
Wednesday: 2:45PM – 3:15PM Ballroom G
Mark Kubis- Senior Engineer, SERIS
With the substantial growth of solar photovoltaic installations worldwide, forecasting irradiance becomes critical. In Singapore, 25 stations located strategically across the island provide meteorological parameters every 1-second transmitted to SERIS’ Central Monitoring System. Irradiance readings are aggregated and displayed as an interpolated map of the country’s solar resource. Remote stations are designed with National Instruments’ cRIO and C-series hardware. Data collection, processing, distribution and maintenance are written in LabVIEW. The live irradiance map is available to the public at www.solar-repository.sg and updated every 1 minute. This talk is intended as a continuation of SERIS’ 2012 NI Week Keynote Speech.
Energy Storage Performance Test on the Scale of Megawatts (TS7737)
Wednesday: 3:30PM – 4:00PM Ballroom G
Peter Blume - President, Bloomy
Test is vital to ensure reliable operation and few industries hold reliability as critical as that of that of a national electrical network. Examine the energy storage system data acquisition and control (ESS DAC) device used to test ESSs at the Battery and Energy Storage Technology Test and Commercialization Center in Rochester, NY. It performs functional, performance, and application test of ESSs from 1 kW to more than 2 MW. Also get an overview of the system architecture and explore a recent test scenario for community ESS test.
Cooling Tower Vibration Monitoring with CompactRIO (TS8048)
Wednesday: 4:00PM – 4:30PM Ballroom G
Jay Rosen – Vice President, Equipment Monitoring and Asset Management Programs, OPX Consulting, LLC
Cooling tower gearbox failures can result in repair costs of over $100,000 and potentially cause huge personnel safety concerns. In the past, obtaining valuable information on the condition of these gearboxes has been difficult or near impossible. This presentation discusses the installation of multiple cRIO’s and the InsightCM software to obtain and analyze vibration information for a 10 cell cooling tower. The installation includes vibration monitoring of several pumps, motors and gearboxes. With the aid of advanced on-line condition monitoring hardware and software from National Instruments, our client now expects to avoid similar failures in the future by being able to determine the health of these gearboxes in near real-time.
Remote Monitoring and Management of Plant Assets Using Distributed CompactRIO Systems (TS8671)
Wednesday: 4:45PM – 5:15PM Ballroom G
Francis Wamba-Fomi, PhD – Project Manager and Advisor, AREVA Gmbh.
Phillipp Miesen - Global Product Sales Development Manager, AREVA Gmbh.
To improve the availability and maintenance costs of plant assets, more and more assets are supplied nowadays with Condition Monitoring System (CMS). Since the new online CMS are less expensive, more powerful and can be networked, the further use of mobile and offline monitoring devices has to be reconsidered. Using the DIROM4i system of AREVA, plant operators can monitor, diagnose and manage their assets remotely. The cyclically and event-based recorded DIROM4i data (vibration, electrical & process)are analyzed automatically and archived on a central plant data server which is securely accessible via Internet over VPN.
Monitoring the Safest and Most Economical Nuclear Power Plant Commercially Available (TS8537)
Wednesday: 5:15PM – 5:45PM Ballroom G
Thomas Spears – Project Manager, Westinghouse Electric Company (WEC)
Westinghouse Electric Company (WEC) uses NI products to develop first class test and monitoring systems that support nuclear power plant owners. Much of the monitoring system technology developed for new power plants can be leveraged to serve a broad base of needs, but many nuclear power plant owners have unique measurement needs. Attend this session to learn how WEC delivers custom, integrated hardware/software solutions to nuclear power plant owners using the open architecture of NI InsightCM.
Internet of Things (IoT) Summit
Helping Solve Grid Challenges with IoT Technologies (TS8460)
Wednesday: 3:30PM – 4:30PM Room 15
Stuart Laval, PhD – Smart Grid Technology Manager, Duke Energy
Historically, the overall coordination of the electric power system has primarily been delivered through centralized management systems. This mode of operation has served the utility industry well for a number of years. However, with the evolution of more intelligent field devices generating massive amounts of data, along with the dynamic landscape of distributed generation, bidirectional load flow, and customer driven technologies, a new model employing both centralized and distributed information management is necessary. Attend this session to hear how IoT technologies, such as open publish/subscribe messaging protocols (e.g. DDS, MQTT), will help solve some of our energy challenges moving forward.
Recommended Embedded Systems Track Sessions
- Automating CompactRIO Deployments with a System Configuration API (TS6386)
Wed., 1:00PM-2:00PM, Room 14 - Tips for Deploying CompactRIO Systems, From Ordinary to Hazardous Locations (TS6779)
Th., 2:00P-3:00PM, Room 15. - Getting the most out of your NI Linux Real-Time Target (TS6938)
Th. 10:30AM-11:30AM, Ballroom G
