Testing protection relays based on IEC 61850 in Substation Automation Systems

Author

Daboul, Mayada ; Orsagova, Jaroslava ; Bajanek, Tomas ; Wasserbauer, Vojtech

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Power Eng., Brno Univ. of Technol., Brno, Czech Republic

fYear

2015

fDate

20-22 May 2015

Firstpage

335

Lastpage

340

Abstract

IEC 61850 standard has achieved the required development for the communication in the Substation Automation Systems (SASs) by allowing to apply the high-speed peer-to-peer communications that is the basis of metering, control and protection applications in SASs. Nevertheless, an appropriate test method for performance testing of IEC 61850 compatible with protection relays and systems is an urgent need to ensure the protection functions of relays will operate as designed. This paper reviews requirements (software and physical devices) of the conventional protective relay testing and the performance testing of IEC 61850 based-relays. It also describes a comparison between the functional testing of conventional IEDs and testing of communications based IEDs.

Keywords

IEC standards; peer-to-peer computing; relay protection; substation automation; substation protection; IEC 61850; SAS; high-speed peer-to-peer communication; protection relay testing; substation automation system; Automation; IEC standards; Performance evaluation; Relays; Substation automation; Testing; GOOSE messages; IEC 61850 standard; SASs; functional testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electric Power Engineering (EPE), 2015 16th International Scientific Conference on

Conference_Location

Kouty nad Desnou

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EPE.2015.7161095

Filename

7161095