Inter-bay substation automation application
AssigneeABB Technology AG
InventorWolfgang Wimmer
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Abstract
The present disclosure is directed to an exemplary interface description or structure of an inter-bay Substation Automation (SA) application. The interface of the application to other elements of the SA system, for example to a bay controller, IED, OPC server, HMI, and/or gateway, is examined to fully automate the inter-bay SA application configuration and implementation. A formal description or structure of the base SA system as for example, including an IEC 61850 SCD file can be used to generate a formal description of the interfaces of the inter-bay SA application to be engineered. Logical nodes can be connected to the process single line diagram and integrated into the SCD file of the base SA system, thereby generating an enhanced SCD file.
Claims6
A method of implementing an inter-bay substation automation SA application involving primary devices arranged in a plurality of substation bays of a substation, comprising:
- reading a standardized configuration description of an SA system of a substation, and obtaining therefrom a static topology of the substation as well as primary device information;
- generating a coordination function block for control of the inter-bay SA application, and assigning, in the standardized configuration description of the SA system, the coordination function block to a coordination-level above a bay level, wherein the coordination-level is one of a voltage level or a substation level;
- generating an interface function block for exchanging, over an SA communication network, data related to a substation constituent;
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- assigning, in the standardized configuration description of the SA system, the interface function block to an interface-level respective of the substation constituent.
An intelligent electronic device IED of a substation automation SA system, for connecting to an SA communication network for data exchange with other IEDs, and hosting, comprising:
- a coordination function block (LLN0, GAPC1) for control of an inter-bay SA application involving primary devices arranged in a plurality of substation bays, the coordination function block being assigned, in a standardized configuration description of the SA system, to a coordination-level above a bay level;
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- an interface function block for exchanging, over the SA communication network, data related to a substation constituent, the interface function block being assigned, in the standardized configuration description of the SA system, to an interface-level respective of the substation constituent.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.