Iec 61850 And Digital Substation Basics

This course will provide you with the basic knowledge on IEC 61850 and networking technologies for digital substations.

What you'll learn

Basic knowledge of IEC 61850: communication models, data model, System Configuration Language (SCL)

Basics of Local Area Networks in digital substations: main components, operation of Ethernet switches, types of traffic, redundancy protocols (RSTP, PRP, HSR)

Time synchronization in digital substations: requirements and time synchronization protocols

Digital substations implementation experience: architectures and LAN topologies

Practical example on how to configure merging unit to publish Sampled Values

Requirements

Basic knowledge of electric power stations and substations and their protection, control and automation systems

Description

This course is a unique combination of information both on IEC 61850 standard and networking technologies, used in digital substations. In approximately 2 hours you will get to know the key differences in implementation of protection and control systems for conventional and digital substations; IEC 61850 communication models, IEC 61850 data model, System Configuration Language and SCL file types; you will understand the basic elements and operation of Local Area Networks in substations, aspects of traffic management (VLANs and static multicast filtering) and time synchronization requirements and methods. In the final part you will get to know possible approaches of digital substations in regard to used IEC 61850 communication models and LAN topologies. This the best introductory course to understand basic concepts of digital substations implementation. The materials of this course are based on extensive practical experience, which includes the implementation of digital substations with process bus. The authors of this course are IEC TC57 WG10 members and trained more than 2500 engineers around the globe for the last 10 years.This course is recommended for protection, control and automation engineers, who are new to IEC 61850 world; for technical managers; for IT staff in electric power utilities; for product managers, related to IEC 61850 products. It is also a valuable source of information for students, which major is related to electric power engineering, protection, automation and control.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction and course contents overview

Lecture 1 Introduction and contents overview

Section 2: IEC 61850 basics: communication models, data model and SCL

Lecture 2 Key differences between conventional and digital substations

Lecture 3 Overview of GOOSE and Sampled Values communication models

Lecture 4 Client-server communications in IEC 61850

Lecture 5 IEC 61850 information model

Lecture 6 System Configuration Language (SCL), SCL file types and their role

Section 3: Basics of Local Area Networks and Time Synchronization in digital substations

Lecture 7 Local Area Networks and Time Sync: main components, requirements and operation

Section 4: Digital substation implementations overview

Lecture 8 Digital substation architectures and LAN topology implementation approaches

Section 5: Demo: Configuring stand-alone merging unit to publish Sampled Values

Lecture 9 How to configure stand-alone merging unit to publish Sampled Values stream

Electric power engineers, protection and control engineers, automation engineers, IT engineers, product managers, technical managers, sales managers