Testing procedures for substation functional circuits using intelligent systems: A practical and educational approach

This paper has developed a methodology for testing of substation functional circuits from the utility company. This methodology allows making all possible combinations of the functional circuits, aiming to find whether there is any fault, bad operation or project mistake in these circuits. The fundamental idea is that this set of tests, automatically made by a computer package, provide the elimination of any type of wrong action of these circuits, which generate the undesirable system breakdown and problems regarding the rate of steady power supply. This joint project has been developed between EDP-Bandeirante Power System and Federal University of Itajuba with practical and education purposes. In the final version of the paper a complete example of a EDP-Bandeirante substation will be added.