Substation Automation Products

The IEC 61850 Standard

Introduction

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IEC 61850
Contents

 Why IEC 61850?

 What is IEC 61850?
 Structure of the standard
 Data model
 Services

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IEC 61850 standard

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Communication standards inside the substation

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Communication standards outside the substation

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Trend in the future

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Effective Engineering
•Replacing hardware wiring with software telegrams
•Reduction of cabling

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IEC 61850 Application Domain: Substation Automation

Remote control (NCC)

Station Engineering
computer station

Station
Station Level gateway

Station or interbay bus (LAN)

Control Protection Control & Protection Control

Protection
Bay Level

Process bus (LAN)

Process Level Process Interface Process Interface Process Interface

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The goal of the IEC 61850 standard
Interoperability The ability for IED’s from one or several
manufacturer to exchange information and use
the information for the their own functions.

Free configuration The standard shall support different philosophies

and allow a free allocation of functions e.g. it
must work equally well for centralized (RTU like) or
decentralized (SCS like) systems.

Long term stability The standard shall be future proof, i.e.

it must be able to follow the progress in
communication technology as well as
evolving system requirements.

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Structure of the IEC 61850 standard

Information and
Part 1 Introduction and Overview understanding
Part 2 Glossary
Impact on
Part 3 General Requirements tenders and
product mgmt.
Part 4 System and Project Management

Part 5 Communication Requirements Modeling

of standard
Part 6 Configuration Description Language for communication

Part 7-1 BasicCommunication

Communicationmodel
Structure (Data
(Data model
model and and Services)
Services)
Communication model (Data model and Services) Impact on
… 7- 4 Communication model (Data model and Services)
engineering
Part 10 Conformance testing

The real stuff!

Mapping Mapping Mapping Mapping
Part 8 Part 9
Stack A Stack B Stack X Stack Y
Impact on
verification

Station bus Process bus

mappings mappings
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The object model of IEC 61850

Data attribute
Logical device 1…N
LN1 LN2
(XCBR) (MMXU) Data
1…N
StV q PhA PhB
Pos A Logical node
1…N

Bay A Logical device

1 ... N

Physical device

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The object model of IEC 61850

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Type naming

BayA/SCSWI1.Pos.stVal

Attribute name (fixed)

Data object name (fixed)
Logical node name suffix (free)
Logical node class (fixed) Logical node name
Logical node name prefix (free)
Logical device name (free)

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Logical node groups
Indicator Logical node groups - PDIR Directional comparison
- PDIS Distance
L System logical node - PSCH Protection scheme
- PTOC Time overcurrent
P Protection functions - PTOV Overvoltage

- more…
R Protection related functions

C Supervisory control - RDIR Directional element

- RDRE Disturbance recorder function
G Generic function references - RBRF Breaker failure
- RFLO Fault locator
- RREC Autoreclosing
I Interface and archiving
- more…
A Automatic control

M Metering and measurement

- MMXU Measuring (measurand unit)
- MMTR Metering
S Sensors, monitoring - MSQI Sequence and imbalance
- MHAI Harmonics and inter-harmonics
X Switchgear
- more …..

T Instrument transformer
- XCBR Circuit breaker
Y Power transformer - XSWI Circuit switch

Z Further (power system) equipment

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SIMG
(Insulator Medium Supervision, Gas)

CSWI
(Switch controller)
TVTR XSWI
(Voltage Transformer)
PTRC
(Circuit Switch,
disconnector/isolator switch) (Protection trip conditioning)

XSWI PTOC
(Circuit Switch,
disconnector/isolator switch) (Time overcurrent protection)

TCTR
(Current Transformer)

XCBR (Circuit Breaker)

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Data access and transfer (services)
 For interoperability both data
and the data access
(i.e. services) have to be
standardized.
 Communication services are
used for
 Vertical communication
 Horizontal communication
 Time synchronization
 File transfer

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Data access and transfer (services)
There are 2 services available for sending data on the communication bus :

1.Client - server:
Commands,
reporting, log,
directory IEC61850-8-1
services, file Station bus 2. GOOSE
transfer

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SCL – Substation Configuration Language
 Description language for communication in electrical substations
related to the IEDs

 XML based language that allows a formal description of

 Substation automation system, the switchyard and the relationship
between them
 IED configuration
 SCL File Types
 SSD: System Specification Description.
XML description of the functionality in a substation
 SCD: Substation Configuration Description.
XML description of a “configured” substation
 ICD: IED Capability Description.
XML description of items supported by an IED
 CID: Configured IED Description.
XML configuration for a specific IED

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IEC 61850 conformance documents
 MICS - Modeling Information Conformance Statement
 Declaration of the used logical node types

 PICS - Protocol Information Conformance Statement

 Contains the details
 What is supported regarding protocol facilities

 PIXIT - Protocol Extra Information

 Additional information on how IEC 61850 is implemented and
used

 TICS - Tissue Information Conformance Statement

 Contains the supported Tissues (Technical Issues)
 Handled in the Tissues process as defined by UCA, Utility
Communication Architecture forum
 http://www.tissue.iec61850.com
 See more at http://www.abb.com/substationautomation

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Datasets, control blocks and clients, basics
 Datasets
 A “container” for signals (for example the position and
quality values of a circuit breaker) that will be sent as
one data packet on the communication bus.

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Datasets, control blocks and clients, basics
 Control blocks
 Control blocks are the mechanism to control how and when
the data in the datasets are sent from the IED. It also provides
the senders address so that a receiving client knows from
whom this data comes.
 There are two kind of control blocks available;
 GOOSE Control Blocks, GCB’s
 MMS Control Blocks, RCB’s (Report Control Blocks)
 Clients
 Clients means the devices (IEDs or HSI systems) receiving
data. It can also be referred to as “Inputs”.

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