Team of Professor WANG Dekuan

Keywords: H9000 system, iP9000 intelligent platform, smart water management, smart hydropower

Contents

    · Developing H9000, a distributed, open computer monitoring system with excellent reliability, scalability and portability, to be applied in the fields of water management, hydropower and renewable energy;

    · Updating to the latest generation of object-oriented H9000 V6.0 system to address major technical problems in the automation and information systems of hydropower stations in  the smart era, including interconnection, intercommunication, interaction, intelligent application and decision support platform. H9000 V6.0 has become the core of intelligent platforms to provide smart solutions for water management, hydropower and renewable energy. It can serve as a computer monitoring system that meets high reliability requirements of automatic control system for water management and hydropower, and as an integrated intelligent platform that supports the development or access of intelligent application components of different kinds.

H9000 V6.0 features:

    a) Loosely coupled SOA software architecture to support the development of various intelligent applications;

    b) Data objectification, model standardization, application intelligence and platform integration;

    c) Specialized application and data componentization supported and managed by the unified intelligent platform, of which the application layers are relatively independent but coordinated to achieve overall optimization;

    d) Open-source object-oriented programming based on unstructured database technology;

    e) Diverse basic application components, which perform well with high reliability to support such functions as data acquisition, communication and display, as well as online system maintenance and expansion; and

    f) Abundant secondary development tool components for efficient system development and integration, which allows for the development and access of third-party application components.

    g) Building an H9000 V6.0-based integrated intelligent platform called iP9000. Based on flexibly defined data and service interfaces provided by H9000 V6.0, iP9000 can easily embed applications developed by Professor Wang Dekuan's team or other third-party software applications, offering solutions for smart water management, hydropower and renewable energy.

Achievements

Smart solutions and applications have been established by the iP9000 platform, including:

    · Smart water management and hydropower engineering solutions

A complete set of smart solutions has been presented for water management and hydropower projects, such as hydropower plants (cascade or group), irrigation areas, sluice stations (group)  and pumping stations (group). The application components include monitoring, automatic generation control, economical operation, water regime and regulation, forecast and dispatch, power generation planning, optimization scheduling, data mining and analysis, intelligent fault diagnosis and safety monitoring.

The smart solutions help realize intelligent production, operation and management based on intelligent perception, analysis, alarm and control of the relevant information.

    · Smart solutions for renewable energy 

An integrated management and control platform for renewable energy power stations has been developed, encompassing intelligent application components for real-time monitoring, complementary water, wind and solar power regulation, equipment status monitoring and fault diagnosis.

The smart solutions, combined with big data technology, regularly assess the equipment health and support the equipment overhaul of renewable energy power stations. The key technology of complementary water, wind and solar power regulation significantly improves the power quality of new energy sources and further the grid capacity to absorb power from renewable energy sources.

    · 3D digital and data visualization solutions

3D digital engineering and basin and large-screen comprehensive data display have been built through this main component of the IP9000 intelligent platform based on the platform data.

    a) 3D digital engineering and basin. The various real-time data, working conditions data and video signals about production and management of water and hydropower projects or enterprises are integrated in a 3D virtual reality environment for real-time interactivity and augmented reality. They support such applications as asset management, data warehousing, data analysis, process simulation, technical exercise, personnel training and emergency command. In the 3D GIS environment, the dynamic demonstration of the natural and man-made processes of the river basin is realized by constructing various hydrological and geological disaster application components.

    b) Large-screen comprehensive data display.  Using large-screen data visualization technology, real-time aggregation and deep mining and refining is conducted for data about engineering planning and construction, production, management and operation, statistical analysis and video surveillance, so as to provide comprehensive business display of water management, hydropower and renewable energy companies.

Application

The H9000 computer monitoring system has been widely applied in but not limited to the following projects:

    · Four of the world's top ten giant hydropower stations, namely Three Gorges, Xiluodu and Xiangjiaba in China and Guri in Venezuela;

    · More than 300 hydropower stations in China, such as Pubugou, Liyuan, Longyangxia, Baishan and Gongboxia;

    · More than 40 hydropower stations in countries other than China, such as Yeywa and Shweli in Myanmar, Moinak in Kazakhstan, and Minas in Ecuador;

    · More than 40 sets of remote centralized control system for cascade hydropower stations, such as those in the lower Jinsha River for Three Gorges, upper Yellow River and of Wuling Electric Corporation;

    · Control and integrated automation of power stations, pump stations, sluice gates and ship locks in more than 50 large-scale water works, such as Bengbu Floodgate of Huaihe River and Cascade Irrigation Project of Jingtai River in Gansu Province;

    · Monitoring or remote centralized control of wind power and photovoltaic power stations in Longyangxia, Golmud of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region;

    · 3D digitalization and data visualization and simulation training for the Three Gorges Project, Dadu River Hydropower Development Co., Ltd, CSG Peak and Frequency Modulation Power Generation Co., Ltd and Mianhuatan Hydropower Plant.

The achievements have been granted a number of provincial and ministerial scientific and technological awards, including three first prizes, three second prizes and four third prizes for scientific and technological progress.

Software architecture and application access mode of the iP9000 intelligent platform

Operation monitoring screen of H9000 system units

Equipment operation monitoring and fault analysis

A 3D digitalized workshop of hydropower plant