IEC 61850 Configuration Solution to Distributed Intelligence in Distribution Grid Automation

Zhengyi Zhu, Bingyin Xu, Christoph Brunner, Tony Yip and Yu Chen
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Zhengyi Zhu: School of Electrical Engineering, Shandong University, No. 17923 Jingshi Road, Jinan 250061, Shandong, China
Bingyin Xu: School of Electrical Engineering, Shandong University, No. 17923 Jingshi Road, Jinan 250061, Shandong, China
Christoph Brunner: it4power, Chollerstrasse 3, Zug 6300, Switzerland
Tony Yip: Shandong Kehui Power Automation Co. Ltd., No. 16 Sanying Road, Zibo 255087, Shandong, China
Yu Chen: Research Center of Smart Grids, Shandong University of Technology, No. 12 Zhangzhou Road, Zibo 255049, Shandong, China

Energies, 2017, vol. 10, issue 4, 1-17

Abstract: To solve the configuration issue when using International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 61850 for distributed intelligence in Distribution Automation Systems (DAS), this paper proposes the configuration solution in terms of semantic models and processing methods. Firstly, the special requirements of the DAS configuration are analyzed, consisting of the system boundary of a configuration project, the topology configuration for distributed applications, and the automatic identification of the Intelligent Electronic Devices (IED). The new models of Process, Line, and other elements are then presented based on the System Configuration Language (SCL) to describe the distribution network topology. The planned contents are allocated into a new format of the Configured IED Description (CID) file to realize the distributed applications. A register service is designed, which fulfills the automatic identification of IEDs when they are remotely placed into a DAS. The service checks the configuration status in real-time and automates the whole configuration engineering process. The case study shows that the proposed solution allows an IED to detect the real-time topology and re-establish the data flow configuration with peer IEDs independently from the master station; thus the distributed applications can be performed more autonomously and efficiently.

Keywords: IEC 61850; distribution automation; distributed intelligence; configuration contents; automatic identification of IEDs; data flow configuration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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