Automated event management in IEC 61850 substations

Author

Ishchenko, Dmitry ; Mousavi, Mirrasoul J.

Author_Institution

ABB US Corp. Res. Center, Raleigh, NC, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

21-25 July 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper describes a system for automated event management in IEC 61850-based substations. Event monitoring in transmission and distribution substations used to be a manual process by utility protection engineers, primarily related to fault events. However, with the recent advances in modern utility communication technologies, particularly IEC 61850 utility automation, coupled with expanded monitoring capabilities of the protection devices, this process can be streamlined, automated, and expanded to additional classes of events. A new method for configuration of a substation-based event processing system using Substation Configuration Description file analysis is also presented.

Keywords

power system faults; power system management; substation automation; substation protection; IEC 61850 substation utility automation; automated event management; distribution substations; fault event monitoring; protection devices; substation configuration description file analysis; transmission substations; utility communication technology; utility protection engineers; Automation; IEC standards; Logic gates; Monitoring; Substations; Event Detection; IEC 61850; Intelligent Electronic Devices; Substation Automation; Utility Communications;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PES), 2013 IEEE

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

ISSN

1944-9925

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PESMG.2013.6672608

Filename

6672608