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INTRODUCTIO}i
ne} at 
the 
central station. Such 
supervisorv 
control 
is far
from 
being 
automatic.
13
devices 
have come 
into 
use 
*'hich
tions 
put 
under 
ar:tomatic 
eontrol, 
automatic
aet 
dre 
tne  reserr 
ftfrrP'ol 
redtci
Automatic 
reclosure 
equipment 
was 
extended 
to 
include 
phase-by-phase
and 
some 
other 
varieties 
of 
reclosure 
not 
onIS' on 
power 
transmission  lines,  but
also 
on br:sbars 
and 
transformers. 
Improvements have 
been 
made 
in  both 
the
circuitry 
and components 
of 
po*'er 
control 
systems 
and new 
automatic 
devices
have 
appeared. 
AIl 
this  materialll'contributed 
to the 
creation 
of 
the 
Unified
Power 
-Grid 
of 
the  European 
USSR 
and 
its 
trouble-free  operation.
According 
to 
the 
Regulatious 
for Instaliation 
of Electrical 
Equipment, 
the
devices 
comprising 
automatic 
power 
controL 
systems 
must  be 
considered at 
the
design 
stage 
and 
put  into 
service 
at 
newl-v* 
built 
Dower systems. The 
iatest
ed.itlon 
of 
ibese 
regulations 
(1966) inciudes 
a section 
"Automatic  Control 
Systems"
s'hich 
covers 
automatic 
reclosure; 
autornatic. 
transfer;  generator control; 
auto-
matic 
regulation 
of  excitation, 
voltage 
and  reactive 
power; 
automatic 
fre-
quency 
contro] 
of 
power systen; 
automatic 
regulation of 
frequency 
and active
power; 
sectionalizing 
_protection'- 
Automatic 
control 
d-evices 
mav 
be 
referred 
to 
any 
particuiar 
categor-r' 
only
aibitrarily, 
because 
one 
and 
the 
same 
device can 
produce man-Y effects. 
For
example, 
instantaneous 
clearing 
of 
short-circuits 
adds 
to the 
stabiiit'-v 
of 
parallel
operaiion 
of 
s-vnchronous 
machines, 
facilitates 
self-start,ilg-  of  as--vnchronous
Ioads, 
reduces-resulting 
damage 
and  improves 
the 
probability 
of 
successful
ar,.t,ornatic 
reclosure, 
i;e,. 
contributes,to 
the glick 
rest,orsiicn 
of 
the 
norrna].
power 
s1'stem 
operation. 
Another  example 
is'the  effeci,ive 
use of  automatic
iransfer 
- 
devices in 
the  house circuits. 
Those 
devices, u'hen 
combined 
with
apprapriate 
sectionalizing 
technjque_, 
do not ailou' single 
shutdon'ns 
or fauits
t.o 
grou'into 
a major 
station 
outage 
which 
ma1'_wel} 
explnd_ 
into a 
s-vstenr 
otttage.
-There 
is 
a 
close 
functionai 
tie-in 
between 
devices 
q'hich 
automaticallS' 
regu-
iate 
frequencS'and 
activ,'e 
poruer; c.ontrol 
and 
limit 
power 
florx's in transmission
lines. 
unioad 
the  lines. 
and 
the 
automatic 
.sectionalizing 
devices.
Where 
svstems 
are 
only 
loosel-v 
interconnected, 
parallel  operation  ean be
ensured 
and'the 
power-cariying 
capacity 
of 
the 
intertonnections 
can be 
better
utitized 
onl-v 
through 
the 
combined 
use 
of 
the 
above devices.
Devices 
used for 
automatic 
excitation 
regulation of synchronous 
machines
improve 
the 
stability 
ol 
parallel 
.operat.ion, 
add 
to the- performance 
accuracy
of 
protective relaying, 
facilitate 
the 
self-starting 
of }oads 
after_ clearing 
short-
cirCuit 
faults and 
allow 
the 
voitage 
regulation 
process to 
be 
performed automa-
ticall,v. 
i
Ir 
some cases? 
autorna'r,ic 
'uransfer 
and reclasure equipment 
can 
give 
a 
suf*
ficient 
degree 
of operational 
stability 
to 
simpiified substations 
using inexpen-
sive 
switchgear.
Superrisory 
control 
of 
a 
power 
system finds 
its 
use along 
with-_power 
s1'stem
automation. 
The 
remote 
control, 
telemetering 
and 
remote 
signalling 
(supervi-
sory oontrol) 
devices 
allow 
the 
monitoring 
and  control  of 
remote 
stations 
or
uniis 
to 
be ceni,raiize<i 
by 
iransmi't'r,ing'r,he 
requi-red informa^uion 
over a dist,alce,
which 
in 
turn 
makes 
it 
possible for 
the 
power 
system 
or its 
part, to 
have centra-
lized 
control. 
Control 
operations 
in 
this 
event are 
performed 
direetll' 
by 
person-
digital  and 
analog 
electronic 
computers.
It  should  be 
noted 
that 
if 
an  operation 
can 
be 
performed 
automatically
or 
rnanuali.V bV superviscry 
coltrol 
u'ith  much the 
same technical 
and 
economil
I-2. 
Elements 
of Automatic 
Control 
Systems
Any 
automatic  control 
device including 
those 
used 
in 
power 
s1'stems 
has 
in
one 
form  or  another 
the 
follou'ing 
essentials: 
an 
element 
to 
sense. 
the 
effect
of 
an external 
factor,  an 
element 
to 
convert 
it  into 
an output 
sig:rai 
in 
a 
prede-
termined  manner. 
and 
-an 
element 
rryhich 
canies  into 
efiect 
th; 
action 
-ot 
ttre
,output.signal 
qo 
thAtr,She 
variahle..m,ay: 
be:,u.adt'r 
c.ontro.l., 
fhe.se 
elements 
mav
use combinations. of  devices 
performing 
aurpii{ication, 
signa} 
de}a-v, 
logical
and  mathematical  operations 
.(summation, 
inversion, 
diffeientiation. 
int6gra-
tion, 
multiplication.  division), 
and 
also 
transducers, 
relays 
and 
regulaiors
or  controllers.
Trar*ducers 
or 
measuri.n,g 
elements 
respond 
t,o 
aD 
external 
action. 
When
converting 
this 
action 
into  an 
output 
signal. a 
transducer 
may 
operate 
inter-
mittentiy 
or  continuousil', 
as appropriJte  to 
the 
control 
"ciioo 
adopted.
A 
relay 
is 
a 
device  designed to 
interpret 
an 
input 
value 
characLeristic 
of
certain  externai 
ph-enomena 
in  order 
to 
automatically 
change 
in 
a  stepwise
rnanner 
another 
value 
determining 
another 
external  phenomenon.
An  autom a+"ic controller 
(regulator) 
is 
a device 
v'hich 
maintains 
a 
desired
guantitv  at  a 
predeterrnined 
ralue 
or 
varies 
it  according 
to 
a 
predetermined
plaq 
or according 
to 
a self-executed 
plan 
satisfying the 
specified, 
iay, 
optimum,
conditions 
of 
operation.
Alttough 
they 
ma1' 
sometimes act 
independentlr, 
of 
one 
another, 
automatic
control 
det'ices 
and 
their 
elements'are usuaiil. 
coupled 
electricalll', 
magnetical-
I-v, mechanically, 
hydraulicalll' 
or 
pneumaticaliy 
to 
each other 
or 
to 
jlements
essential 
to  the 
operat,ion 
of 
the 
entire 
automatic 
systenx.
Eiectrical  interconnections 
of 
the 
individual 
eiements of 
a.utomatic 
devices
and 
various 
automatic 
systerns 
are depicted 
in 
the 
form 
of  diagrams.
Cirouit  diagrams 
are drawn 
and 
circuit  symbols 
are used 
in 
icsordance 
with
pertinent  State  Standardstl-11.
High  standards of reliability 
are an 
important 
reguirement  generally 
placed
upon automatic control 
devices. 
Lately, 
it 
has 
become.possible-to 
regaidrelia-