NEPTUNE
POWER
NEPTUNE POWER GROUP MEMORANDUM
From:
Date:
To:
Subject:
Bruce Howe and Harold Kirkham
17 May 2002
Power Group and CoDR Participants
Concept Design Review (CoDR) Planning
The NEPTUNE Power System Concept Design Review will take place 10 – 11 June 2002 on the
University of Washington Campus.
The purpose of this memorandum is to:
 Define the scope of the review,
 List the reviewers and participants,
 Describe the documentation that will be available,
 Define the expected products and timetable, and
 Present the agenda.
Scope of the CoDR
The purpose of the Review is to ensure that the design is progressing appropriately, and to
identify possible deficiencies and suggest corrective actions. It is a concept review, so concrete
solutions for some aspects of the system may not exist yet.
This review will be followed by a NEPTUNE Concept Design Review planned for 10-12
September 2002. A Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for the Power System will follow later in
the year.
Process
The process used in the Review will be to have presentations by the Project to the Board on all
aspects of the work. Areas reviewed include the project management (risk, cost, schedule etc),
mission assurance, as well as the technical aspects of the development.
The Board will note any area of concern, and document the concern on a Request For Action
form, along with any suggestions for resolution that they may have.
After each day’s presentations, the Board will work with the Project to dispose of the RFAs. This
means the concern will be classified as Accepted for Action, Accepted as Advisory or Rejected.
The rationale for the disposition will be documented.
At the end of the Review, all RFA dispositions will be included in the presentation of the
Board’s Summary.
Review Board
The Review will be conducted by a Board comprised of recognized external authorities in the
various fields relevant to the power system (see table). The Review will be open to all
NEPTUNE participants and other interested parties.
Name
Affiliation
John Paserba
Mitsubishi Electric Power Studies Power systems and solid state
Group
switches
Consultant
Electrodes, corrosion
Consultant
HVDC, Power system analysis
ALSTOM T&D Power Electronic Converters
Jim Jenkins
John Reeve
Neil Kirby
Expertise
Systems, Stafford, England
A. J. Farrar (Tony)
Michael Hofmann
Jules Esztergalyos
Alcatel, Greenwich, UK
Bonneville Power Authority
Bonneville Power Authority
Telecom power systems
Protection relays
Protection
Documentation
All material will be the web site and available to participants. The existing web site is
http://cialab.ee.washington.edu/neptune; the existing ftp site is cialab.ee.washington.edu,
username neptune, password neptune. The latter has many of the relevant files but is not so easy
to navigate. A new combined site is in preparation and will replace these very soon; you will be
notified as to this change.
The following material will be provided all reviewers and project personnel in hard copy form
and on CD; it will be available on CD to other participants upon request.
Project
Concept of Operations (Harold Kirkham)
System Requirements and Specification (Harold Kirkham)
Statements of Work (Bruce Howe and Harold Kirkham)
Power System Considerations for Undersea Observatories, Howe, Kirkham, and Vorpérian,
IEEE J. Oceanic Engineering, May 2002
Index to Documentation (Bruce Howe)
Shore station
Converter, surge arresters, and vacuum switches (Mohamed El-Sharkawi)
UPS (Tim McGinnis)
Electrodes (Tim McGinnis)
Cable
Cable Parameters (Aditya Upadhye and Mohamed)
Node
Backbone DC Switchgear – Concept (Mohamed El-Sharkawi)
Backbone DC Switchgear – Components (Mohamed El-Sharkawi and Denise Dennis)
Node Converter (Vatché Vorpérian)
System
Data Acq and Comms (Chen-Ching Liu, Kevin Schneider, and Tim McGinnis)
Power Monitoring and Control System (PMACS – Kevin Schneider and Chen-Ching Liu)
Protection (Kevin Schneider and Chen-Ching Liu)
Restoration (Chen-Ching Liu and Byung Ki Park)
Slow models: Power Flow (Kevin Schneider and Chen-Ching Liu)
Transient Models: Circuit Breaker Restrikes (Aditya Upadhye and Mohamed El-Sharkawi)
Reliability (Richard Kemski)
Extensive supporting documentation can be found on the present ftp site.
Expected Products
The minutes of the Review will be prepared by Howe and circulated to the Review Board
members and project personnel for review before being posted on the web site by 14 June. All
presentation material will also be placed on the web site.
The report on the Review, summarizing the major findings, including major outstanding
questions and weaknesses, will be prepared by the Chair with assistance from the members. It
will be submitted by 18 June and will be posted on the web site.
The entire web site, containing all the NEPTUNE power system documentation to date will be
copied to CD and made available to interested parties.
The report will be presented at the NEPTUNE-wide meeting scheduled for 29 July – 2 August
and at the NEPTUNE-wide Concept Design Review, presently planned for 10 – 12 September
2002.
Agenda
The draft agenda follows. Much of the first morning material is overview; one member may
arrive late in the morning.
Agenda
NEPTUNE Power System Concept Design Review
NEPTUNE Program Office Conference Room 207
Old Oceanography Building, on the waterfront, UW Campus
10 – 11 June 2002
Monday 10 June
08:30
09:00
09:15
10:15
10:30
11:45
12:15
13:15
13:45
15:00
15:15
16:15
17:00
Coffee and Rolls
Welcome, Introductions, Logistics, Review the Agenda
NEPTUNE Overview – Bruce Howe
Break
Power System Overview – Harold Kirkham
Shore station presentations (Mohamed El-Sharkawi, Tim McGinnis)
Lunch (sandwiches brought in)
Complete shore station presentation
Cable parameters, DC switches, and transient Modeling (Mohamed El-Sharkawi)
Break
Node Converter – Vatché Vorpérian
Data acq and comms/node controllers – Tim McGinnis
Adjourn
Between 17:00 and 18:30, some of the Board will work with the Project on disposing of
the day’s Requests for Action (RFA)
18:30 Dinner at ??
Tuesday 11 June
08:30
09:00
09:30
10:00
10:45
11:00
11:30
12:15
12:30
13:30
15:00
15:15
16:00
17:00
Coffee and Rolls
Slow Models – Kevin Schneider
PMACS – Chen-Ching Liu
Protection – Kevin Schneider
Break
Restoration – Chen-Ching Liu
Reliability – Rich Kemski
Summary – Harold Kirkham
Lunch (sandwiches brought in)
Questions
This period will also be used for the disposition of outstanding RFAs
Break
Questions
Summarize, draft report
Close
Liesje Bertoldi, the NEPTUNE Office administrator is just next door (Tel: 206-685-9556).
Internet jacks are available. There will be a computer projector and an overhead machine
available.