Design Remote Terminal Unit (RTU) Voltage Regulator -

Rashid, Muhammad Arif (2016) Design Remote Terminal Unit (RTU) Voltage Regulator -. Project Report. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Power outages is always happened and its take a longer time for fault detection, isolation and restoration. This problem affects the manufacturing sectors and having an impact on residential areas. Therefore, the voltage regulator is implemented to ensure the problem of unsteady voltage can be controlled immediately. The purpose of this research is to design voltage regulator to regulate the voltage level in the load. The linear voltage regulator is the best selection as it can give fast response to input and output disturbances. At the same time, remote terminal unit (RTU) is employed at the load to monitor the voltage level in the load as well. The design of RTU including RTU hardware circuit board, the RTU using software algorithms, the interfacing for monitoring process and integrate software and hardware together to make the RTU as a complete system. In order to ensure the RTU system achieve its objectives, the methodology uses consists of Proteus software to design and develop the RTU circuit board, mikroC PRO software to program the microcontroller-base, Visual Basic software to create the GUI interfacing for the monitoring system and serial port as a communication media to connect RTU to the control unit in short distances. The findings of this research show that the problem of unstable voltage in the load can be detected quickly by RTU and the signals will be sent to the control unit for further action. The importance of design and development of RTU is being able to provide a system that can continuously collect, process, store data and operate independently through programming and save time and cost. The significance of this research is the improvement of the RTU system whereby the RTU designed is based on existing RTUs. The RTU has an industrial application potential which can be applied in TNB distribution automation and other industrial sectors to monitor weather, temperature, leakage current and others overcurrent. The proposed RTU is to monitor the voltage level and send the information in terms of type fault, the value of fault, substations status and locations, date and time to the monitoring unit.

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