HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANTS

AUTOMATION USING IEC 61850:

EXPERIENCES AND IMPROVEMENTS FOR
THE USER

SHF - Enhancing hydropower plants Grenoble, April 9-11, 2014

Erik San Telmo, Esther Alonso (Ingeteam Power Technology S.A.)

INDEX

IEC 61850

ADVANTAGES

INTRODUCTION

NAMING

MOTIVATION
TO USE

INTEGRATION

ENGINEERING
PROCESS

TIMESTAMPS

CONCLUSIONS

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SEQ. OF
EVENTS

WIRING

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1. IEC 61850 principles

IEC 61850 Principles and evolution

IEC
61850

EVOLUTION

Distributed Energy
Resources

Hydro Wind

Common
information
model

IEC 61850
Devices
Protective
relays

SCADA
HMI

Standard
communication
mechanisms

Substations

Logic
Controllers
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Remote
Terminal
Units

Meters

Inverters
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IEC 61850 Motivation to use IEC 61850 in Hydro automation

User
requirements

Timestamps

Event list on
comms failures

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Technology
available

INGESYS IC3
PLC

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INGESYS IT
SCADA HMI
INGEPAC
Protective relay
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IEC 61850 architecture

MONITORING AND TELECONTROL

SCADA HMI
(RTU)
RTU
IEC 61850 network

Generator
Protective
relay

Transformer
Protective
relay

PROTECTION

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IC3
Group
controller

IC3
Auxiliar services
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CONTROL + REGULATION

IEC 61850 engineering process

Engineering
process
1.
IEC 61850
Modeling

2.
Protection
integration
3.
System
configuration
4.
SCADA
configuration
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5.
Logic controller
programming
6.
Validation
and testing

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Step 1 Logic controllers IEC 61850 modeling

Identify
information
exchanged

IEC 61850 defines

a virtual
information model
of the hydro
power plant
components using
Logical Nodes.

Select IEC
61850
information
objects

IEC
61850-7-4

IEC 61850-7-410
Hydro specific

SPRS
Pressure
supervision

KPMP
Pump

XCBR
Circuit breaker

KVLV
Valve

MMXU
Measurements

HSEQ
Sequencer

Create IEC
61850
configuration
file

Group
controller ICD
file
(XML standard
format)
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Plant
controller ICD
file
(XML standard
format)

* ICD: IED(Intelligent Device) Capability Description

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Step 2 Integration of protective relays

Engineered
according
to utility
requirements

Group
controller
ICD file

Plant
controller
ICD file

Generator
Protection
ICD file
Provided by

Hydro power
plant complete
virtual
information
model
SCD file

manufacturer
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Transformer
Protection
ICD file

* SCD: System Configuration Description

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Step 3 System configuration Data interchanges

Gen.
Prot.

Transf.
Prot.

Group
Controller

Group
Controller 1

Plant
Controller

Group
Controller 2

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SCADA HMI

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Step 4 SCADA Configuration

Each IEC 61850 logical node defines a set of standard

data points for status information, commands or/and
settings.

KPMP
Logical node for
Pump information

SCADA manufacturers can define component libraries

with predefined objects that use the standard IEC
61850 data information.

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SCADA
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Configuration

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Step 5 Programmable Logic Controller programming

IEC 61850
Server

KVLV
SPRS
DI/DO

AI/AO

IEC 61131
POUs

IEC 61850

XCBR

WRAPPER

KPMP
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HSEQ
IEC 61850 model
binding to 61131
information

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2. Advantages for the user

Advantages of using IEC 61850

1. Standard naming and format

2. Integration of protective relays

3. Sequence of events

4. Time stamping of data

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5. Wiring reduction

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1. Standard naming and format

Utility A

MMXU

Puissance

Means Measurements

FLOAT32 (W)

Utility B

ActivePower

Utility C

Pot Activa

TotW

Means Total active power

FLOAT32 (MW)

MV structure
INT16 (kW)

Each utility or system

integrator defines the
information name and
format.
Conversions are needed.

name

type

mag.f

FLOAT32

Quality

Timestamp

units.SIUnit

Enumeration

units.multiplier

Enumeration

The standard defines the

rangeformat of each
Enumeration
name and the
data point
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Time reduction.

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2. Integration of protection devices

All protection function

logical nodes start with
P

FROM THE IEC 61850

INTERFACE ALL RELAYS
LOOK EQUAL.

IED xxx
The Trip is always Op
LDXXX
PIOC
Op
PTOC
Op

Connect the trip

information with the
PLC and done
INTEGRATED !!!

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PXXX
Op

Time reduction.

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3. Sequence of events
MODBUS Basic polling:
If communication link is broken, sequence of events is lost.
MODBUS special register for events
MODBUS current values

Cyclic transmission of current values and

registers for events

IEC 61850 includes a native Buffered Reporting mechanism.

The server stores events in case of communication lost. All IEC servers behave the same way.

BRCB: buffered report control block

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Spontaneous transmission

Better functionality.

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4. Time-stamping
More detailed
sequence of events.
Events not related to
scan cycle period
name

type

stVal

BOOLEAN

Quality

Timestamp

Digital inputs with

1ms resolution

Digital inputs with

1ms resolution

IEC 61131 data

change with TASK
cycle resolution

Trips with 1ms

resolution
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Better functionality.

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5. Wiring reduction GOOSE Generic Object Oriented System Event

Wire and communication failure detection.
Event !!

GOOSE lost
detection

few ms

Fast repetition
mechanism

GOOSE
repetition
should arrive
here

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Aggregation: an Ethernet cable transports several digital signals in 1 GOOSE message.

More security and cost reduction.

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3. Conclusions

CONCLUSIONS

Our experience in engineering time

Modbus
Modbus MULTIVENDOR
FIRST IEC 61850
IEC 61850
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IEC 61850 MULTIVENDOR

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CONCLUSIONS

IEC 61850 is a valid solution for hydro power plant automation.

- First 2 IEC 61850 projects required big effort.

- Better in functionality.
- More efficient in multivendor projects.
- We use it depending on the user requirement and the devices to integrate.
- More than 10 IEC 61850 hydro projects mainly in Spain.
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Thank You