PSS® Product Suite
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Siemens has used its great experience and know-how in network planning to develop powerful system simulation and analysis tools to assist engineers in their highly responsible work. The software tools of the Power System Simulator PSS®Product Suite are leading products with respect to technical performance and user-friendliness. Comprehensive interfaces enable the interaction of all PSS®Product Suite tools, and also support the integration with other IT systems.
Overview of our main software products:
- PSS®E - transmission system planning
- PSS®SINCAL - utility and industry system analysis
- PSS®NETOMAC - dynamic system analysis
- PSS®ODMS - operational data management
- PSS®MUST - transmission system analysis
- MOD® - model on demand
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PSS®SINCAL
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- PSS®SINCAL University
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Utility and Industry System Analysis
PSS®SINCAL (Siemens Network Calculation) is a high-performance planning tool for the simulation, evaluation and optimization of supply systems. It is successfully applied in more than 400 municipal utilities, regional and national power supply companies, industrial plants and consultants worldwide.
PSS®SINCAL offers state-of-the art software technology and a fully featured scope of analysis methodologies for electrical networks as well as gas, water and district heating networks – integrated in one powerful and intuitive user interface. Using a commercial data base as data repository allows easy integration into the customer’s IT environment. High-end automation features based on COM-server technology facilitate the implementation of user-specific solutions. The availability of many ready-to-use interfaces facilitates the integration into existing IT architectures.
PSS®SINCAL also serves as the foundation for the main database of all Siemens power system analysis products. Its fully unbalanced network model makes it the perfect tool for the simulation of distributed generation and wind modeling.
What's New
PSS®SINCAL Version 8.5 now available
Since April 2012 PSS®SINCAL Version 8.5 has been available. Version 8.5 features several new functionalities for the planning and analysis of electricity and pipe networks, with a focus on a new Master Database and a beta version of PSS®NETOMAC as well as new features for energy storage.
The new Master Database enables multiple users to work on a network simultaneously. The Master Database works similar to a source control system and centrally manages the changes of the different users. Users can still do the actual editing in local databases assigned to them, and these can be synchronized with the Master Database. The Master Database can be generated from any PSS®SINCAL network. This network is simply converted to a Master Database and individual users (called clients) make changes to a copy of the network. This allows maximum flexibility in planning tasks, since no limits are placed on the users still working as with a normal PSS®SINCAL network. Special synchronization functions with conflict management are used to transfer changes made by the users to the global Master Database. This assures that the data in both the Master Database and in the local client. The Figure below shows the Administration View of the Master Database.
The Master Database needs a "proper" RDBMS, since large amounts of data need to be managed. This means the Master Database is stored either in Microsoft® SQL Server® or in Oracle®. You cannot use Access®.
Besides, in modern network concepts, more and more elements for short and long-term energy storage have been implemented. To simulate these types of networks in PSS®SINCAL, basic functions for simulating energy storage devices have been implemented in the new PSS®SINCAL version. Energy storage can either be assigned to a synchronous machine or a DC-infeeder. This completely changes how these elements operate, since they then function as energy storage devices.
Moreover the optimization procedure for capacitor placement has been comprehensively reworked. The following optimization variants are now available:
- Optimized Placement of Available Capacitors
- Optimized Placement of Capacitors
- Placement of Available Capacitors
- Placement of Available Capacitors (Extended)
The aim of this optimization procedure is to reduce transmission losses by adding capacitors. PSS®SINCAL estimates the costs for the capacitors and the expected savings from reducing transmission losses. Based on costs and savings the "Return on Investment" can be determined.
In PSS®SINCAL, many different kinds of controllers can now be attached to synchronous machines – from speed controllers to stabilizer models. When you want to simulate dynamics, however, two additional controllers are often still required:
- COMP
- Turbine Load Controller
Both these new controllers can be assigned to synchronous machines and used in the dynamics simulation.
Additionally PSS®SINCAL V 8.5 has importing and exporting functions for Cymdist 5.0 ASCII data-exchange format. These new import and export functions can be used both for network data and graphic data. Cymdist’s and PSS®SINCAL’s network models are, however, very different. Not all the data in the Cymdist files can be used in PSS®SINCAL. Now, when you import, PSS®SINCAL only actually processes the basic network data, i.e. the network elements with their topological and electrical data. At the present time, protection devices, harmonic filters and other add elements such as, for example, FailureEvents are not included.
Furthermore PSS®SINCAL V 8.5 also has a "pre-release version" of the new PSS®NETOMAC User Interface that is intended to replace the old version. PSS®NETOMAC’s new graphic user interface is similar to a modern software development environment. The networks being inspected are structured as projects. In these projects, both the input data and the results are administered.
The new user interface has a specially optimized text editor to work with PSS®NETOMAC files. When the message system was implemented, a lot of attention was given to make it easy to identify and locate input errors and modeling problems. To display signals in EMT or Stability Simulation, of course PSS®NETOMAC also has an integrated diagram system.
PSS®NETOMAC’s diagram system is very similar to that of PSS®SINCAL, but PSS®NETOMAC's version is more flexible for data connection. Using Drag & Drop, you can pull signals that are displayed in the Signal Explorer directly into the diagram. If you want you can assign a projection formula to each signal that is used to display and convert the signals. This is used to convert the signal values anyway you want before actually displaying them.
Many more features, e.g. graphical link object, have been integrated in PSS®SINCAL Version 8.5. For more information to this new version, please refer to the release notes.
PSS®SINCAL University
Software packages tailored to academic needs and budgets
For a modern education in power engineering universities need enhanced system planning software which provides state-of-the-art algorithms as well as features to simulate and evaluate the latest developments in the energy sector like smart grids and the integration of wind power.
Siemens PTI offers specialized packages which have been developed to particularly meet the requirements of universities and students of power engineering with regard to functionality and costs. PSS®SINCAL University packages cover the whole range from transmission to the actual hot topics around micro grids in distribution networks with high model precision.
Key features:
- Packages with 25 simultaneous network licenses for models with up to 50 nodes
- One in all software : No need for data transfer, but interfaces are available for data exchange
- Network models can be fully unbalanced
- Facile integration into other applications
- Allows flexible customization, e.g. programming, background simulation in user written solutions
- Easy access to network data
- Intuitive user interface according to standard Windows® applications
PSS®SINCAL University Education packages are free of charge, only a handling fee has to be covered.
| Package I - Transmission University | Load Flow, Load Profile Simulation 1-, 2- and 3-Phase Short Curcuit Multiple Fault Simulation Protection Coordination and Simulation of Overcurrent Time Protection and Distance Protection Calculation of Optimum Distance Protection Settings Harmonics Transient Stability |
| Package II - Utility Optimization University | Load Flow Balanced and Unbalanced 1-,2- and 3-Phase Short Circuit Optimal Branching Optimal Compensation / Capacitor Placement, Load Balancing, Long Term Load Development Load Assignment and Load Profile Based Transformer Tap Position Optimization Contingency Analysis |
| Package Gas | Gas Steady State Contigency Analysis Gas Profile Simulation (Quasi Dynamic) |
| Package Water | Water Staeady State Contingency Analysis Water Tower Filling Water Profile Simulation (Quasi Dynamic) |
| Package District Heating | Heating Steady State Contingency Analysis Heating Profile Simulation (Quasi Dynamic) |
For Research we offer full network licenses with unlimited node numbers in special university configurations for a price that fits into university budgets:
| Package I - Transmission University | Load Flow, Load Profile Simulation 1-, 2- and 3-Phase Short Circuit Multiple Fault Simulation Proection Coordination and SImulation of Overcurrent Time Protection and Distance Protection Calculation of Optimum Distance Protection Settings Harmonics Transient Stability Probabilistic Reliability (including MCMC) |
| Package II - Utility Optimization University | Load Flow Balanced and Unbalanced 1-, 2- and 3-Phase Short Circuit Optimal Branching Optimal Compensation / Capacitor Placement, Load Balancing Long Term Load Development Load Assignment and Load Profile Based Transformer Tap Position Optimization Contingency Analysis |
Due to an increasing demand in network studies related to the integration of wind power, a model package specializing on dynamic and Wind simulation is also available as special offer for universities.
| Package III - Dynamic + Wind University | Load Flow 1-, 2- and 3-Phase Short Cirucit Transient Stability Electromagnetic Transients Graphical Model Builder Special Libraries With Dynamic Wind Models |
Besides the university packages listed above any other configuration of modules and license types from the price list is available. Siemens PTI is pleased to offer a price deduction of 80% for software used for education and research purposes only:
Also note that universities do not pay for maintenance and support and receive all updates (2 per year) free of charge.
Free future program updates – no future costs
Events
Users Group Meetings
Currently there is no Users Group Meeting planned.
Information Sessions
New to PSS®SINCAL? Interested in learning more? Join Siemens PTI for a presentation of our PSS®SINCAL product and stay for an open Q&A with development team members.
- January 2012 in San Antonio, Texas, USA.
Tradeshows
E-World
Essen, Germany
Feb 07-09, 2012