2011 North American
PQView User Group Meeting and Workshops
September 14-16, 2011
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Background
Boston Custom House. Photo by Jerry PalmerPQView® is a Microsoft Windows desktop application for building databases of electric power measurements. PQView has evolved into a comprehensive database system for centralizing data from many different types of metering systems including power quality monitors, digital fault recorders, electronic relays, and SCADA systems. PQWeb® is a Microsoft Windows server application that enables web browsers to query measurements stored in a PQView database via a corporate intranet or the Internet. This user group meeting includes both formal presentations and hands-on computer workshop lessons that focus on the past, present, and future developments of both PQView and PQWeb.
Agenda
The meeting includes three days of activities.
Introduction to PQView Workshop
Wednesday, September 14, 2011, 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM
New Horizons Computer Learning Center, 101 Arch Street, The Summer Exchange Building, 3rd Floor, Boston
This is a hands-on workshop focusing on a PQView overview. It is focused at new users who have never seen the program but is also appropriate for existing users looking for training on the basics. Topics will include creating new databases, importing from basic data sources, viewing events, and viewing data logs.
Power Quality Monitoring Seminar
Wednesday, September 14, 2011, 2:00 PM to 6:00PM
New Horizons Computer Learning Center, 101 Arch Street, The Summer Exchange Building, 3rd Floor, Boston
This seminar, led by David Mueller of Electrotek Concepts, is new to the PQView Users Group Meeting series. It will consist primarily of case histories and power quality monitoring examples that will interpret various monitoring results and how they can be used. It will include examples of voltage sags, transients, harmonics, flicker, and interharmonics. The seminar will include modules on IEEE and IEC power quality monitoring standards. It will also include a section where seminar attendees can share their power quality measurement examples to the group for discussion. Topics will include rms variation sensitivity curves such as CBEMA, ITIC, and SEMI F47, voltage sag analysis and sag directivity, harmonic source characteristics, harmonic direction, IEEE 519 revisions, flicker measurement and propagation, interharmonic measurement, and utility system transients including capacitor switching, ferroresonance, dynamic overvoltage, transformer energizing, and line energizing.
PQView User Group Meeting
Thursday, September 15, 2011, 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM
Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, 415 Summer Street, Room 251, Boston
Location from Google Maps
PQView User Group Dinner
Thursday, September 15, 2011, 6:30 PM
Barking Crab, 88 Sleeper Street, Boston
Directions from Boston Convention & Exhibition Center
Advanced Topics in PQView Workshop
Friday, September 16, 2011, 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM
New Horizons Computer Learning Center, 101 Arch Street, The Summer Exchange Building, 3rd Floor, Boston
Who Should Attend
Electric utility engineers, plant engineers, technicians, and managers involved in management or analysis of electrical systems power measurements
Lodging Suggestions
EPRI's Power Delivery & Utilization Program Advisory Council Fall 2011 Meeting is taking place at the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel from September 12-14, 2011. The Westin Hotel adjoins the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, which is the location of the PQView Users Group Meeting on September 15. PQView Users Group Meeting attendees can register at the Westin Waterfront hotel using the EPRI rate of $199.
The Westin Boston Waterfront
425 Summer Street
Boston, MA 02210
Reservations: +1-617-532-4600
Rate: US$199 using EPRI discount
Rate expiration: August 19, 2011
Harborside Inn
185 State Street, Boston
Rate: $269
Holiday Inn Express
69 Boston Street, Boston
Rate: $189
Take Red Line subway from Andrew Station to South Station
DoubleTree Club by Hilton Hotel Boston Bayside
240 Mount Verson Street, Boston
Rate: $198
Take Red Line subway from JFK/UMass Station to South Station
Holiday Inn Boston Garden
280 Friend Street, Boston
Rate: $233
Within walking distance
All attendees are responsible for making their own hotel accommodations.
Technical Contact
Dan Sabin, Monitoring System Applications Architect
Electrotek Concepts, Inc.
900 Cummings Center, Suite 408U, Beverly, Massachusetts 01915, USA
+1-978-927-8755 | dsabin@electrotek.com
Registration Costs and Web Site
Meeting BrochureThe registration costs for the meeting are listed below in US dollars.
- Introduction to PQView Workshop: $225
- Power Quality Monitoring Seminar Details: $225
- PQView User Group Meeting Details: $25
- PQView User Group Dinner: $35
- Advanced Topics in PQView Workshop Details: $450
The event's registration web site is open.
