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Keywords.............................................................................................................................. p 2
Executive summuary............................................................................................................. p 2
Introduction........................................................................................................................... p 3
Global emergence of IEC 61850........................................................................................... p 5
Enhancing power quality in 61850........................................................................................ p 6
Conclusion............................................................................................................................ p 8
Keywords
IEC 61850, logical nodes, power quality.
Executive summuary
Today design, deployment, and operation of modern substations
are changing significantly. IEC 61850 (61850) 1 leads the way, as a
notably improved global standard. This paper supports 61850 as a
worthy vehicle for providing power quality solutions to the industry
while examining concepts for enhancing power quality aspects for
improved functionality.
61850
is the result of years of
research by leading utility
industry experts seeking
to provide a universal
standard addressing
all significant aspects
of modern substation
communication.
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Introduction
ORIGINALLY centered around automation and protection aspects
inside high voltage substations, 61850s guiding principal of using
modeling and common services to reduce technical functions into
logical pieces (logical nodes) has facilitated 61850 branching out
into many electrical infrastructure areas. The resulting ability to
achieve relatively quick maturity of new functions lends itself well
to a vision of the complete modern substation of the future.
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IEEE Standard Common Format for Transient Data Exchange (COMTRADE) for Power Systems, IEEE standard C37.111, 1999.
RFC1361: Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP), 1992.
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Conclusion
IEC 61850 is a powerful standard. Built on sound engineering
principles and technology, it can be leveraged to provide valuable
information in power quality analysis, compliance reporting
applications, and other similar functions. Using widely adopted
power quality standards for measurement and reporting, like IEC
61000-4-30 and EN 50160, could provide logical key support.
By enhancing the logical node support, time synchronization
accuracy, and event sequencing with additional quality reporting
for end users, IEC 61850 can be extended to support many
advanced power quality applications.
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