Performance monitoring of a PMU in a microgrid environment based on IEC 61850-90-5
- Authors: Kumar, Shantanu , Das, Narottam , Islam, Syed
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Conference proceedings , Conference paper
- Relation: 2016 Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, AUPEC 2016; Brisbane, Australia; 25th-28th September 2016 p. 1-5
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- Description: Reliable protection, communication and control are the key features of a digital protection scheme in a utility substation. Microgrid is an alternative solution of installing long Transmission & Distribution lines could be cost prohibitive. There are number of Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) which could find applications in controlling and monitoring of power network in a Microgrid set up and one such device is Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU). It is a microprocessor based intelligent device which gathers high-resolution data, checks the power quality and records disturbances. However, few issues that remains to be addressed such as, interoperability in a multi-vendor equipment and coordination between individual control systems in an integrated scheme. In this paper, an Operational Network Technology (OPNET) software model of a PMU has been designed and tested for its performance in a Microgrid environment based on IEC 61850-90-5 standard.
High performance communication redundancy in a digital substation based on IEC 62439-3 with a station bus configuration
- Authors: Kumar, Shantanu , Das, Narottam , Islam, Syed
- Date: 2015
- Type: Text , Conference proceedings , Conference paper
- Relation: 25th Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, AUPEC 2015; Wollongong, Australia; 27th-30th September 2015 p. 1-5
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- Description: High speed communication is critical in a digital substation from protection, control and automation perspectives. Although International Electro-Technical Commission (IEC) 61850 standard has proven to be a reliable guide for the substation automation and communication systems, yet it has few shortcomings in offering redundancies in the protection architecture, which has been addressed better in IEC 62439-3 standard encompassing Parallel Redundancy Protocol (PRP) and High-Availability Seamless Redundancy (HSR). Due to single port failure, data losses and interoperability issues related to multi-vendor equipment, IEC working committee had to look beyond IEC 61850 standard. The enhanced features in a Doubly Attached Node components based on IEC 62439-3 provides redundancy in protection having two active frames circulating data packets in the ring. These frames send out copies in the ring and should one of the frame is lost, the other copy manages to reach the destination node via an alternate path, ensuring flawless data transfer at a significant faster speed using multi-vendor equipment and fault resilient circuits. The PRP and HSR topologies provides higher performance in a digitally protected substation and promise better future over the IEC 61850 standard due to its faster processing capabilities, increased availability and minimum delay in data packet transfer and wireless communication in the network. This paper exhibits the performance of PRP and HSR topologies focusing on the redundancy achievement within the network and at the end nodes of a station bus ring architecture, based on IEC 62439-3.
Software implementation of two seamless redundant topologies in a digital protection system based on IEC 62439-3
- Authors: Kumar, Shantanu , Das, Narottam , Islam, Syed
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Conference proceedings , Conference paper
- Relation: 2016 Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, AUPEC 2016; Brisbane, Australia; 25th-28th September 2016 p. 1-5
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- Description: Substations are the junctions of any transmission and distribution network in utilities. They carry bulk power to the customers using transmission network involving high voltage (HV) apparatus. Protection of HV equipment during a fault is the primary concern of an operator. Advancement in design and manufacturing of Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) and IEC 61850 are finding increased application in utilities from automation and communication perspective, which addresses few shortcomings that couldn't be resolved in a conventional system. However there are few challenges in the digital scheme such as end to end delays in the packet transfer and interoperability of devices. Utilities are able to perceive these benefits by leveraging on IEC 62439-3 which has two important topologies i.e. Parallel Redundancy Protocol (PRP) and High-availability Seamless Redundancy (HSR). It offers seamless redundancy in digital protection network without compromising the availability and downtime cost. In this paper, an Optimized Network Engineering Tool (OPNET) is used to simulate and compare the performance of these topologies with respect to delay time.
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Performance evaluation of data transmission in a single and double bus network within the utility substation based on IEC 61850
- Authors: Kumar, Shantanu , Das, Narottam , Muigai, John , Islam, Syed
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Conference proceedings , Conference paper
- Relation: 2014 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting; National Harbor, United States; 27th-31st July 2014 Vol. 2014, p. 1-5
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- Description: Communication between intelligent electronic devices (IED's) is an important feature of a utility substation automation system based on IEC 61850. Time critical information related to fault and overcurrent, under frequency messages for substation automation system (SAS) and the use of IED's from multiple vendors, has opened up issues related to a reliable protection system within the high voltage substation. Early detection of the delay in data transmission over a Generic Object Oriented Substation Event (GOOSE) network is an important step towards identification of problems associated with the dynamic protection system. It is observed that non critical messages adds up the queuing time and delays in the delivery of the messages which could be an issue in the reliable operation of a protection system. In this paper an Optimized Network Engineering Tool (OPNET) model is created, tested and analysed for a single and double bus configuration in detail for the delay encountered in data transfer within a typical zone substation. In order to understand the delay in transmission of packets, a 132/22kV zone substation model is analysed and results are discussed based on GOOSE communication in an IEC 61850 environment. Further, the delay in communication is compared and analysed between a single and double bus system of a 132/22kV substation to determine the best alternative technique available from protection point of view in a SAS network.
Performance evaluation of two interconnected high voltage utility substations using PRP topology based on IEC 62439-3
- Authors: Kumar, Shantanu , Das, Narottam , Islam, Syed
- Date: 2018
- Type: Text , Conference proceedings
- Relation: 2017 Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, AUPEC 2017; Melbourne, Australia; 19th-22nd November 2017 Vol. 2017, p. 1-5
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- Description: In a modern power system network having multiple interconnected High Voltage (HV) substations, communication amongst Intelligent Electronic Devices (IED) becomes an important feature in an automation system. Time critical information, such as feeder faults, overcurrent, under frequency messages between multiple geographically isolated substations have opened up number of issues related to reliability in protection, automation and control. There are problems related to latency, data loss and transfer of Sampled Value (SV) packets transmitted to these inter-connected substations on radio wireless and Ethernet mode linked up in a Wide Area Network (WAN) configuration. Few other key area of concerns in a digital protection scheme are packet losses, errors in packet arrival at destination, latency in transmission, End to End delay in packet transfer due to flooding of the network, out of sequence packet arrival etc. Error prone packets could seriously compromise the protection scheme and endanger the safety of primary plant assets in a transmission substation. This paper investigates performance of SV packet transmission between two interconnected substations]. Practical simulations were performed to evaluate the performance of SV packets in a laboratory set up to assess the performance of digital protection scheme based on Parallel Redundancy Protocol (PRP) topology involving digital equipment such as Merger Units (MUs), switches, IEDs and Redundant boxes (Red box), etc.
Performance analysis of substation automation systems architecture based on IEC 61850
- Authors: Kumar, Shantanu , Das, Narottam , Islam, Syed
- Date: 2014
- Type: Text , Conference proceedings , Conference paper
- Relation: 24th Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, AUPEC 2014; Perth, Australia; 28th September-1st October 2014 p. 1-6
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- Description: Digital Communications amongst multi-vendor intelligent electronic devices (IED's) is an important feature of a substation automation system (SAS). Measuring the propagation delays and assessing the interoperability performance of IED's in an Ethernet architecture play a critical role in the protection of important substation assets. Early detection of the loss of data packets in a star connected Ethernet architecture is an important step towards identification of delay in message transfer issue. This identification of the problem could lead to reliable operation of protection system and better understanding of the issues of interoperability which may improve the protection system from safety and availability point of view. This paper focuses on a star connected architecture using Optimized Network Engineering Tool (OPNET) software for a 132/22kV zone substation. It shares a practical case for measuring delay time in exchanging Generic Object Oriented Substation Event (GOOSE) messages amongst the IED's.
Microgrid communications - protocols and standards
- Authors: Kumar, Shantanu , Islam, Syed , Jolfaei, Alireza
- Date: 2019
- Type: Text , Book chapter
- Relation: Variability, Scalability and stability of microgrids Chapter 9 p.291-326
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Toward a substation automation system based on IEC 61850
- Authors: Kumar, Shantanu , Abu-Siada, Ahmed , Das, Narottam , Islam, Syed
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Electronics (Switzerland) Vol. 10, no. 3 (2021), p. 1-16
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- Description: With the global trend to digitalize substation automation systems, International Electro technical Commission 61850, a communication protocol defined by the International Electrotechnical Commission, has been given much attention to ensure consistent communication and integration of substation high-voltage primary plant assets such as instrument transformers, circuit breakers and power transformers with various intelligent electronic devices into a hierarchical level. Along with this transition, equipment of primary plants in the switchyard, such as non-conventional instrument transformers, and a secondary system including merging units are expected to play critical roles due to their fast-transient response over a wide bandwidth. While a non-conventional instrument transformer has advantages when compared with the conventional one, extensive and detailed performance investigation and feasibility studies are still required for its full implementation at a large scale within utilities, industries, smart grids and digital substations. This paper is taking one step forward with respect to this aim by employing an optimized network engineering tool to evaluate the performance of an Ethernet-based network and to validate the overall process bus design requirement of a high-voltage non-conventional instrument transformer. Furthermore, the impact of communication delay on the substation automation system during peak traffic is investigated through a detailed simulation analysis. © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
Performance evaluation of a process bus architecture in a zone substation based on IEC 61850-9-2
- Authors: Kumar, Shantanu , Das, Narottam , Islam, Syed
- Date: 2016
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- Relation: IEEE PES Asia-Pacific Power and Energy Engineering Conference, APPEEC 2015; Brisbane, Australia; 15th-18th November 2015 Vol. 2016, p. 1-5
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- Description: Ethernet communication has been the back bone of high speed communication in digital substations from protection relaying, control and automation perspective. Major substation manufacturers have been constantly upgrading softwares and adding new features in their Intelligent Electronic Devices (IED's) to carry out multiple functions in process bus devices. This paper presents simulation results with respect to the delay in packets transfer in an Ethernet environment. Understanding the delay in packet transfer of Generic Object Oriented Substation Event (GOOSE) and Sampled Values (SV) shall assist the user in understanding the substation automation, control and protection of substation primary plants such as current transformers (CT's), voltage transformers (VT's), circuit breakers etc. connected in the network during a fault condition Conventional substation uses Merging Units (MU's) to communicate with the IED's featuring IEC 61850-9-2 standard. This standard exhibits transparency and standardization of data communication while addressing issues related to reliability, packet sharing, and maintainability, etc. However, process bus architecture is yet to be widely accepted in the industry and needs further validation due to lack of confidence. This paper evaluates the performance of a digital protection scheme in a zone substation operating at 132kV, featuring IEC 61850-9-2 IED's and using an optimized network engineering tool (OPNET) simulator. Understanding the delay in receiving time critical GOOSE and sampled value SV messages from protection perspective is critical as loss of data could cause malfunction in the protection jeopardizing vital substation plants.
Verification of latency and delays related to a digital topology based on IEC 61850
- Authors: Kumar, Shantanu , Das, Narottam , Islam, Syed , Abu-Siada, Ahmed
- Date: 2019
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- Relation: 2019 29th Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference (AUPEC2019); Momi Bay, Fiji; 26th-29th November 2019
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- Description: Digital Communication systems have matured to a point of acceptance in the last decade enormously based on IEC 61850 guidelines from Substation Automation System (SAS) perspective. However, these networks have issues related to latency, data clogging delays, errors etc. in the digital protection system. Measuring propagation delays and assessing the performance of IED's and other peripherals in an Ethernet topology play a critical role in relay coordination setting. This paper discusses issues associated with a digital network and addresses the problems that could mitigate spurious tripping or compromise the protection of the assets in the feeders leading to a reliable operation of the protection system. The discussion in this paper is carried out based on a case study related to a digital star topology using Optimized Network Engineering Tool (OPNET) software of a 132/22-kV zone substation. We report the practical case of measuring delay time during frame exchanges of Generic Object Oriented Substation Event (GOOSE) and Sampled Value (SV) messages amongst the IED' and peripherals.
High voltage substation automation and protection system based on IEC 61850
- Authors: Kumar, Shantanu , Das, Narottam , Islam, Syed
- Date: 2018
- Type: Text , Conference proceedings
- Relation: 2018 Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference (AUPEC);Auckland, New Zealand; 27-30 Nov. 2018
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- Description: Digital Communication is the future of High Voltage (HV) substation automation, protection and control. It not only offer ease of diagnostics but acts fast to isolate healthy feeders from faulty ones. The effect of this digital protection technology is being appreciated by many utilities and industries for the benefit it offers to them and looks to be the future. Some of the utilities are replacing their secondary copper wires with Fibre Optics (FO) and Ethernet wires as they want load the cable trays less and identify the FO better than the secondary copper wires. Conventional relays are being replaced with Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) during asset management replacement program. Switchyard equipment such as instrument transformers filled with oil and SF6 gas are being replaced with Non-Conventional Instrument Transformer (NCITs). Ushering new devices into the network are not without challenges. These devices and peripherals cannot be put into use by the end user without proper assessment and needs to be validated with number of tests for its performances. To get end users acceptance, laboratory and field tests are carried out to study the propagation delays and performance issues as applicable to digital automation and protection scheme. This paper discusses an early detection of the loss of data packets in a star connected Ethernet Substation Automation Systems (SAS). Understanding a real model in a lab environment is an important step towards performance evaluation and identification of issues. With the involvement of multiple manufacturer in the digital substation, it is good to set a trial of the interoperability of equipment involving their products which could address critical protection issues. This paper focuses on a star connected architecture using an Optimized Network Engineering Tool (OPNET) lab-based software simulating the latency and delays of a digital protection scheme in a 132/22-kV zone substation.
Implementing PRP and HSR Schemes in a HV Substation based on IEC62439-3
- Authors: Kumar, Shantanu , Das, Narottam , Islam, Syed
- Date: 2018
- Type: Text , Conference proceedings
- Relation: 2018 Condition Monitoring and Diagnosis (CMD); Perth, WA, Australia; 23-26 Sept. 2018 p. 1-5
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- Description: High speed communication is an essential feature of Substation Automation and Control. Existing International Electro-technical Commission (IEC) 61850 guidelines substation automation and communication systems have few shortcomings in the protection architecture which necessitated an upgrade to another guideline. This has been addressed better in IEC 62439-3 standard encompassing Parallel Redundancy Protocol (PRP) and High-availability Seamless Redundancy (HSR), Earlier there have been number of issues with IEC 61850, due to single port failure, data losses and interoperability related to multi-vendor equipment. The enhanced features of a Double Attached Node component based on IEC 62439-3, provide redundancy in protection by virtue of having two active frames circulating in the ring. These frames send out copies in the ring. Should one of them be lost, the destination node will receive alternate frame, ensuring flawless data transfer at a significant faster speed in a multi-vendor equipment ensuring the circuit is fault resilient. PRP and HSR topologies promise enhanced reliability over IEC 61850 standard due to faster processing capabilities, increased availability in the scheme with least delay time in circulating data packet in wireless communication in the network. This paper exhibit performance of PRP and HSR topologies addressing redundancy within the network ring leveraging on IEC 62439-3.
Mitigation of sympathetic tripping leveraging on IEC 61850 Protocol
- Authors: Kumar, Shantanu , Das, Narottam , Islam, Syed
- Date: 2019
- Type: Text , Conference proceedings
- Relation: 2018 Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference (AUPEC); Auckland, New Zealand; 27-30 Nov. 2018 p. 1-6
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- Description: Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) diagnose faults and traffic issues of data packets in a reliable and efficient manner in a substation environment. These devices determine abnormal system condition, wide area disturbances offering greater flexibility to the operator in terms of condition monitoring and diagnostics. In a distribution system, end user get multiple faults in the network and one such nuisance disruption of power on a faulty feeder results in sympathetic tripping. Sympathetic tripping occurs during high load conditions causing entire protection system to spuriously trip due to an out of section fault. Occurrence of such faults could be attributed to load unbalance in the distribution feeders, delayed voltage recovery conditions, voltage swell/sag in the feeders etc. Usually, this phenomenon occur when loads containing low inertia rotating equipment are connected to distribution feeders. In this paper, an Optimized Network Engineering Tool (OPNET) is used to simulate, mitigate faults attributed to Sympathetic Tripping in a laboratory environment.
A Fast and Reliable Blocked Bus Bar Protection Scheme Leveraging on Sampled Value and GOOSE Protection based on IEC 61850 Architecture
- Authors: Kumar, Shantanu , Abu-Siada, Ahmed , Das, Narottam , Islam, Syed
- Date: 2021
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: 31st Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, AUPEC 2021, Virtual, Online 26 to 30 September 2021, Proceedings of 2021 31st Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference, AUPEC 2021
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- Description: Substation Automation System (SAS) is in a matured state and promises to replace conventional protection scheme. It has created a new paradigm in its application for future smart grids. The multifunction features of IEC 61850 facilitate this technology to reliably monitor, protect and control critical assets. Mostly agree, the intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) and substation automation features have the same effect as 'html' had in developing web technology on IT system in 1990's. However, in order to be acceptable completely, this technology needs to gain confidence of end user, it needs to be researched further using multivendor equipment and experimented in a network comprising of complex secondary protection schemes. In this paper, a practical Blocked Busbar Protection (BBP) scheme have been implemented and tested for a single bus bar scheme, leveraging on Sampled Values (SV) and Generic Object Oriented Substation Event (GOOSE) at laboratory to prove its reliability and improvement in technology. This experiment has been carried out for three scenarios in a simulated substation network related to a process plant industry. Furthermore, this laboratory-based experiment with multivendor IEDs evaluated performance of an Ethernet and FO based process bus network to validate overall performance of BBP protection scheme. It concluded with a comparison between digital and conventional protection scheme with recommendation for future applications. © 2021 IEEE.
Comparison between wired versus wireless mode of digital protection scheme leveraging on PRP topology
- Authors: Kumar, Shantanu , Abu-Siada, Ahmed , Das, Narottam , Islam, Syed
- Date: 2022
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: 4th IEEE Sustainable Power and Energy Conference, iSPEC 2022, Virtual, online, 4-7 December 2022, Proceedings - 2022 IEEE Sustainable Power and Energy Conference, iSPEC 2022
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- Description: Applications of Digital communication in power systems have undergone revolutionary changes in the last decade due to the advancement in technology encompassing substation automation system (SAS). The reasons for veering away from traditional copper based secondary wiring for protection schemes to Ethernet and fiber optic (FO) include economic gains, faster project delivery, ease of diagnostics, less engineering and design efforts. However, digital systems still comprise some challenges such as latencies, data losses, and packet clogging during high traffic. Errors in packets transmission and associated difficulties in publication and subscription of generic object-oriented substation events (GOOSE) and sampled value (SV) packets in a Wide Area Network (WAN) substation based on IEC 62439-3 protocol call for a detailed investigation. This paper compares the performance of wired and wireless mode of digital secondary scheme based on simulation and physical set up leveraging on Parallel Redundancy Protocol (PRP) topology. It presents different scenarios for SV packets in a process bus and provides analysis to the data packet transmission due to traffic and network clogging in wired and wireless topologies. © 2022 IEEE.
Reverse blocking over current busbar protection scheme based on IEC 61850 architecture
- Authors: Kumar, Shantanu , Abu-Siada, Ahmed , Das, Narottam , Islam, Syed
- Date: 2023
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications Vol. 59, no. 2 (2023), p. 2225-2233
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- Description: Substation Automation System (SAS) is currently in a matured state of technology that shall facilitate transformational changes from conventional protection scheme. IEC 61850 protocol is considered as the crux of digital SAS due to its multifunction features that include seamless communication, ability to integrate various intelligent electronic devices, potential for improved real-time condition monitoring, reliable protection, and control of critical electrical assets. Because the application of IEC 61850 in SAS is relatively new and has not fully implemented in many substations yet, further feasibility studies using multivendor equipment to assess its performance under different operating conditions is imperative. In this article, a practical reliable and efficient reverse blocking over current bus bar protection scheme based on IEC 61850 is implemented and tested. Also, a comparison of digital SAS and conventional protection scheme is presented to highlight the superiority of the former one. Experimental results attest the reliability and effectiveness of the proposed digital protection scheme along with the accuracy and security of transmitting data packets using sampled values and generic objective-oriented substation event communication protocols adopted by IEC 61850. © 2022 IEEE.
Review of the legacy and future of IEC 61850 protocols encompassing substation automation system
- Authors: Kumar, Shantanu , Abu-Siada, Ahmed , Das, Narottam , Islam, Syed
- Date: 2023
- Type: Text , Journal article , Review
- Relation: Electronics (Switzerland) Vol. 12, no. 15 (2023), p.
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- Description: Communication protocols play a pivotal role in the substation automation system as they carry critical information related to asset control, automation, protection, and monitoring. Substation legacy protocols run the assets’ bulk data on multiple wires over long distances. These data packets pass through multiple nodes, which makes the identification of the location and type of various malfunctions a challenging and time-consuming task. As downtime of substations is of high importance from a regulatory and compliance point of view, utilities are motivated to revisit the overall scheme and redesign a new system that features flexibility, adaptability, interoperability, and high accuracy. This paper presents a comprehensive review of various legacy protocols and highlights the path forward for a new protocol laid down as per the IEC 61850 standard. The IEC 61850 protocol is expected to be user-friendly, employ fiber optics instead of conventional copper wires, facilitate the application of non-conventional instrument transformers, and connect Ethernet wires to multiple intelligent electronic devices. However, deployment of smart protocols in future substations is not a straightforward process as it requires careful planning, shutdown and foreseeable issues related to interface with proprietary vendor equipment. Along with the technical issues of communication, future smart protocols call for advanced personnel and engineering skills to embrace the new technology. © 2023 by the authors.