P R OT E C T I O N

IEC 61850 STANDARD

Interoperability for Advanced Protection
and Control Applications

AREVA T&D announces the launch of a range of IEC 61850

compliant products for protection, control, SCADA, interlocking,
and interrogation within a substation. IEC 61850 is the
international standard for communication in substations and is
today's means of integration of all devices. It evolved from the
definitions laid down in UCA2 GOMSFE, the communications
specification created by the Electric Power Research Institute for
substation communications. The adoption of the new standard is
open to all manufacturers and utilities, promoting its growth as a
worldwide common solution, without any favoritism, or historical
bias. In such a respect IEC 61850 is "interoperable", and is an
automation protocol emanating entirely from the combined wishes
of utilities and manufacturers.

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IEC 61850 OFFERS THE FOLLOWING BENEFITS

TO UTILITIES AND INDUSTRIAL USERS:

> High Speed data Exchange

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Ethernet links operating at 10 or 100 Mbit/s exchange polled data

and commands between devices at a faster rate than traditional
point-point or fieldbus protocols. Master stations can perform
supervisory control with negligible delay.

Ethernet (10/100 Copper)

PC Router
Hub

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> Peer-to-peer Communication

Since all digital devices within the substation can communicate
with each other, without extensive hardwiring in equipment bays,
master-slave is consigned to history. The reduction in copper
interwiring alone will generate large reductions in scheme
engineering fixed costs. Direct communication peer-peer can filter
out commands which do not need to be passed to an upstream
control system, reducing its processing overhead.

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> Standard Bay Schemes

Customer benefits
Cost effective solution due
to reduced inter-wiring
Flexible programming allowing
relays and new protection
functions to be added without
affecting physical wiring
Enhanced compatibility
enables communication
between relays from any
manufacturers

AREVA T&D

Economies of scale will result where standard protection and

control bay schemes are engineered. The exact customising of the
scheme to suit the application is achieved in software, using
GOOSE/GSSE logic.

Function

P543, P544,
P545, P546
Line Current
Differential

P141, P142, P143

Feeder
Management

P437
Distance
Relay

Real-time measurements
GOOSE peer-peer
logic/commands
Time synchronism
Event reports
Disturbance record
extraction
10 Mbit/s Ethernet
100 Mbit/s Ethernet
Additional
IEC-60870-5-103 port
Additional Courier port

P632, P633, P634

Transformer
Protection

> True Interoperability

MiCOM CAPABILITY

All equipment suppliers, installers and users have access to the

same common vocabulary and physical characteristics of the new
standard. Manufacturer's equipment can be mixed and matched,
system integration and commissioning is easier. No longer is there
the risk of being locked-in to use of one supplier's proprietary
protocol.

The IEC 61850 interface provides the following Capabilities:

> Uniformity
One protocol is all that is needed in the substation, costly
gateways and split path communications are avoided.
Messages and control commands are interleaved on a single
network. Multiple master station "clients" can be integrated,
allowing all authorised operators and engineers to interrogate and
control the substation IEDs.

IEC 61850 SUPPORT IN MiCOM

AND BiTRONICS DEVICES
AREVA T&D embraces the philosophy and advantages of the new
standard, and launches compliant communications in the MiCOM
P*30 and P*40 protection platforms. The standard is also
supported in MiCOM C264 control devices and BiTRONICS M87*
measuring and recording devices. MiCOM relays availability is
shown in Table 1.

AREVA T&D Worldwide Contact Centre:

http://www.areva-td.com/contactcentre/
Tel.: +44 (0) 1785 250 070

www.areva-td.com
www.areva-td.com/protectionrelays

> IEC GOOSE : High-speed Peer-to-Peer Communication

> Read access to measurements
> Generation of reports on changes of measurements
Measurement reports can be generated when user-defined criteria have been met. This will usually be in the form of a setting
such as percentage change of a measurement (deadband).
> Generation of reports when an event record is created. Status
reports can be generated by protection events when user-defined reporting criteria have been met.
> Support for time synchronisation over an Ethernet link
> Disturbance Record Extraction
> Relay settings Download and Extraction (supported in P*30 and
P*40 platform models)
The hardware support available for the physical communication
link is selected from the following options:
> 10BASE-T
> 10BASE-FL
> 100BASE-TX
> 100BASE-FX

-10Mb Copper Connection (RJ45 type)

-10Mb Fibre Optic Connection (ST type)
-100Mb Copper Connection (RJ45 type)
-100Mb Fibre Optic Connection (SC type)

The additional IEC-60870-5-103 and Courier ports are fitted to the

relays where connection with other substation communications is
specified. Typical examples are where a simple MODEM link, or
connection to a local PC is configured, allowing engineering
access to change relay settings. Redundancy of communication
with the Ethernet link is thus supported.

Our policy is one of continuous development. Accordingly

the design of our products may change at any time. Whilst
every effort is made to produce up to date literature, this
brochure should only be regarded as a guide and is
intended for information purposes only. Its contents do not
constitute an offer for sale or advise on the application of
any product referred to in it. We cannot be held responsible
for any reliance on any decisions taken on its contents
without specific advice.

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