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IEC 61850 Edition 2

What does it mean for the end
user?
Author

Company

Email

Christoph Brunner

it4power

Christoph.brunner@it4power.com

Rodney Hughes

Rod Hughes Consulting Pty Ltd

rgh@rodhughesconsulting.com

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Extension of the
scope

Transmission
Substation

Distribution
Substation

New Title:
Communication
Area Control
network and systems
for power utility
automation
Generation

DER

Regional Control

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Edition 2 Summary

Improved interoperability
of devices
of tools

Documenting configuration information

New functionality

Communication between substations

Power quality
Redundancy
.....

Testing support

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Engineering Language

Edition 2 adds specifications that shall help to

improve interoperability of tools
Conformance statements for IED and system tools
Responsibilities of system tools and IED tools

Differentiation between instance file and

template new file type IID
Exchange of engineering information betwee
projects new file type SED

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Documentation of
Signal Flow

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IED 1
Trip Bkr

IED 2

PDIS1 XCBR

RBRF.OpEx

PDIS2
InitiateBF

PDIS3 PTRC
21ZPTRC1.Tr

RBRF

VirtualInput

InRef=IED1/21ZPTRC1.Tr

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Documentation of
Signal Flow

IED 1

IED 2
PTRC.Tr

PDIS1
PDIS2 PTRC
PDIS3

XCBR
21ZPDIS1.Str

Trip Bkr

VirtualInput

Block

PTRC

BlkRef=IED1/21ZPDIS1.Str

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Testing an IED

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IED

Mod=TEST
Mod=TEST
Mod=ON

Control service
Test=FALSE
Test=TRUE

Wired output

Mod=TEST-BLOCKED
GOOSE (data
interpreted as
control)
q.test=FALSE
q.test=TRUE

Mirroring control
information

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IED
Control service
ctlVal

Wired output

opRcvd
opOk
tOpOk

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Simulated inputs

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GoID=GO1; Simulation=TRUE
GoID=GO1; Simulation=FALSE

IED
LPHD
SimGo=FALSE
SimGo=TRUE

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Isolation and test of an

equipment
Sim
TEST

Pxxx

LPHD

PTRC
TestSet

Protection IED
Samples (Sim=FALSE)

TCTR
TCTR
TCTR
TVTR
TVTR
TVTR
Merging Unit

Samples (Sim=TRUE)

TEST-BLOCKED
XCBR
Breaker

XCBR.Pos.opOk
XCBR.Pos.tOpOk

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Simulating inputs

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LN yyyy
Out

LN xxxx
InRef1 (ORG)
- setSrcRef
- setTstRef
- tstEna
-

LN GGIO
SPCSO1
tstEna=TRUE

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Funct

Input1

Out

Communication
between Substations

Gateway approach

Station A
Function
A1

Function
A2

Special
Communication
Mechanism
(typically low
bandwidth)

?
?
Proxy
B2

Station B
Function
B1

Function
B2

"Teleprotection Equipment"
acting as Gateway

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Communication
between Substations

Tunnel approach

Transparent Tunnel

Station A

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Station B

Function
A1

Function
B1

Function
A2

Function
B2

Modeling PUTT

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ITPC
PDIS1

PSCH

Permit
Comm
Channel

PSCH

PDIS2

Teleprot
Equipment
PTRC

ITPC

Permit

PSCH

PSCH

PDIS1
PDIS2

Teleprot
Equipment

Trip Brk

Trip Brk

Protection IED

PTRC
Protection IED

Gateway approach

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Conclusions

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Edition 2 includes many new features

supporting the end user
Interoperability between tools is expected to
be improved
New features improve testing
Backwards compatibility is maintained to a
large extend

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Thank You

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