Accredited for two ECSA CPD points
DATES: Tuesday 29 & Wednesday 30 September 2009
TIME: 08h45 to 16h30
VENUE: Blue Room, Administrative Building, second floor, Cape Peninsula University of Technology (Bellville Campus), Symphony Way, Bellville, Cape Town
COST: R2000 for two days or R1500 for one day, including all documentation, food and refreshments
BACKGROUND
The NRF Research Niche Area on Real Time Distributed Systems, at the Department of Electrical Engineering, CPUT, is in the process of developing a national research, teaching and training center for substation automation and energy management systems. Dr. Alexander Apostolov has been appointed adjunct professor and mentor at CPUT for the development and operation of the center. He is a world leading expert in development of the IEC61850 substation automation standard as well as protection theory and applications.
Prof. Apostolov is coming to Cape Town for the period from 21 September until 3 October 2009. On Tuesday 29 and Wednesday 30 September 2009, he will present a two-day seminar entitled "IEC61850 Fundamentals, Applications and Benefits". The seminar will include demonstrations using Siemens IEDs and Omicron test devices.
The seminar material covers the fundamental characteristics and problems in understanding, studying and application of the IEC61850 standard for substation automation.
PROGRAMME
The two-day programme comprises eight 1,5-hour lectures, interspersed with refreshment and lunch breaks.
Day One:
Lecture 1: IEC61850 systems and their components:
Application of IEC61850 devices and systems requires good understanding of the functional hierarchy and the components of the system. This lecture describes different possible implementations of IEC61850 based systems.
Lecture 2: Ethernet communications in substations:
Ethernet is the underlying communications protocol in IEC61850 based substation automation systems. The structure of Ethernet messages needs to be understood well in order to implement and troubleshoot such systems. Priority tagging and V-Lan are described as well.
Lecture 3: GOOSE messages, publishing and subscription:
GOOSE messages are one of the key differentiators of IEC61850 in comparison with other substation communication protocols. Detailed structure of GOOSE messages, repetition mechanisms and publishing / subscription concepts are discussed.
Lecture 4: IEC61850 process bus:
Sampled values publishing and subscription process bus is the foundation for the development of the substations of the 21st century. The concept of process bus, implementation agreements, applications and benefits are presented.
Day two:
Lecture 5: IED object models:
Self-description is another differentiator of IEC61850. The model hierarchy of the standard is described from an abstract and practical point of view. The role of logical nodes and their collection in logical devices is described. The principles of object browsing are presented at the end.
Lecture 6: Substation configuration language based engineering:
The substation configuration language (SCL) of IEC61850 is one of the main tools that allow the shift to a different engineering process based on the different XML based files defined in the standard - ICD, CID, SCD. XML and the different SCL files and their use in relation to system testing are discussed.
Lecture 7: IEC61850 testing - equipment requirements and tools:
IEC61850 based substation automation and protection systems are different from conventional systems due to the use of communications to replace hard wiring for many functions in the substation. This imposes different requirements for the testing equipment and software tools that are described in the lecture.
Lecture 8: System testing concepts and demonstrations using IEDs:
Testing of complex systems can be performed in different ways as a function of the types of tests, functional hierarchy and system components. The lecture presents the concepts of unit, integration and system testing, as well as top-down and bottom up approaches to the testing of complex systems.
