Materials System Specification

16-SAMSS-513 16 April 2019

Power System Automation Components
Document Responsibility: Electrical Systems Designs and Automation Standards
Committee

Contents
1 Scope.............................................................. 2
2 Conflicts and Deviations................................. 2
3 References......................................................2
4 Definitions....................................................... 4
5 General Requirements
for Protective Devices............................. 5
6 PSA IED Performance Requirements............. 5
7 Acceptable Protective Devices....................... 8
8 Revenue Metering Devices........................... 8
9 General Requirements
for Work Stations/Servers.......................9
10 General Requirements
for Network Switches............................ 11
11 Specifications of PSA Software.................... 12

Previous Issue: 15 May 2016 Next Planned Update: 15 May 2021

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1 Scope

This document covers specifications of multiple components serving protection and

power system automation for use in Saudi Aramco facilities. This document is used as a
supplement to the following Saudi Aramco Materials System Specifications (SAMSS):
16-SAMSS-504 “Indoor Metal-Clad Switchgear: 1 to 38 kV”
16-SAMSS-506 “Indoor Controlgear - High Voltage”
16-SAMSS-514 “Control and Protective Relay Panel - Indoor”

When specifically referenced within the above SAMSSs, this specification defines the
technical requirements for protective and automation devices supplied within this
equipment.

2 Conflicts and Deviations

2.1 If there are any conflicts between this Specification and associated purchasing,
project or engineering documents, this specification shall take precedence.

2.2 Direct all requests to deviate from this Specification in writing to the Company
or Buyer Representative, who shall follow internal company waiver procedure
SAEP-302.

2.3 The designation “Commentary” is used to label a sub-paragraph that contains

comments that are explanatory or advisory. These comments are not mandatory,
except to the extent that they explain mandatory requirements contained in this
SAMSS.

3 References

The following is a summary of all the documents which have been mentioned within
this Specification. The specific part(s) of these documents which are applicable have
been identified throughout this Specification.

All referenced Specifications, Standards, Codes, Forms, Drawings, and similar material
shall be considered part of this Specification to the extent specified herein and shall be
the latest issue (including all revisions, addenda, and supplements) unless stated
otherwise. The specific part(s) of these documents which are applicable have been
identified throughout this Specification.

3.1 Saudi Aramco References

Saudi Aramco Engineering Procedures

SAEP-99 Saudi Aramco Industrial Control System Security
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SAEP-302 Waiver of a Mandatory Saudi Aramco Engineering

Requirement

Saudi Aramco Materials System Specifications

16-SAMSS-504 Indoor Metal-Clad Switchgear: 1 to 38 kV
16-SAMSS-506 Indoor Controlgear - High Voltage
16-SAMSS-514 Control and Protective Relay Panel - Indoor
23-SAMSS-701 Industrial Facility Ethernet Switch Specifications

3.2 Industry Codes and Standards

Items not covered by this specification shall be in accordance with the following
Industry Standards and Codes. Referenced Industry Standards shall be the
edition, addendum, or revision in effect on the date of the Quotation Request or
the Purchase Order, unless stated otherwise. The exact sections of the following
standards are given in Section 8 of this document:

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

IEEE C37.90 IEEE Standard for Relays and Relay Systems
Associated with Electric Power Apparatus
IEEE C37.1 IEEE Standard for SCADA and Automation
Systems
IEEE C37.111 Measuring Relays and Protection Equipment -
Part 24: Common Format for Transient Data
Exchange (COMTRADE) for Power Systems

International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)

IEC 60255 Electrical Relays
IEC 61850 Design of Electrical Substation Automation
IEC 60687 Alternating Current Static Watt-Hour Meters for
Active Energy (Classes 0,2 and 0,5,S)
IEC 1010-1 Safety Requirements for Electrical Equipment for
Measurement, Control and Laboratory Use
IEC 61000 Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC)
IEC 62052-11 Electricity Metering Equipment (AC)

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4 Definitions

Approval or Approved: Written approval of the EED Coordinator.

Client: The user point-of-entry for the required function in client/server computing.
Normally, a desktop computer, workstation, or laptop computer.

CPU: Central Processing Unit.

COMTRADE: IEEE Standard C37.111 - Measuring relays and protection equipment -

Part 24: Common format for transient data exchange (COMTRADE) for power
systems.

Database: A group of related files (data tables).

Database Management: Special software to create and maintain a database and enable
individual business and application to extract the data they need without having to
create separate files or data definitions in their computer programs.

DNP: Distributed Network Protocol. Communication protocol to exchange data in the

substitutions and SCADA system.

EED Coordinator: Coordinator, Electrical Engineering Division, Consulting Services

Department.

Ethernet: A link layer protocol using a shared channel to broadcast messages and used
widely in Saudi Aramco LAN.

GOOSE: Generic Object Oriented Substation Events: A transfer of data (analog and
status) from one IED to another for the purpose of control.

Graphical User Interface (GUI): Part of a software to display data and functions.
Users use graphic icons and the computer mouse to issue commands and make
selections.

Human Machine Interface (HMI): The display, data entry devices and supporting
software to allow a user access to applications.

IED: Intelligent Electronic Device. See IEEE C37.1

LAN: Local Area Network, a computer network that is concentrated in a geographical

area such as a building or a plant area. See IEEE C37.1

Modbus: Communication protocol to exchange data in the substitutions and other third
party systems/devices.

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Monitor: The metering device; a multifunctional metering IED.

OPC: Standard architecture for data access and data management.

RAID: Redundant Array of Independent Disks.

RTU: Remote Terminal Unit.

SAMSS: Saudi Aramco Materials System Specification.

Server: Computer specifically optimized to provide software and other resources to

other computers over a network.

TCP/IP: Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol.

Time of Use (TOU): A method to calculate electrical energy consumption (MWh)

based on different tariff rates for different times of the day/year.

5 General Requirements for Protective Devices

Protective relays shall be suitable for continuous operations in any ambient temperature
from 0°C to 55°C. If specified for use in outdoor equipment, relays shall be suitable for
continuous operation from 0°C to 70°C.

6 PSA IED Performance Requirements

6.1 Requests to use alternate IEDs to those listed within Section 7 shall be
accompanied by documentation indicating that the alternate IEDs meet the
requirements of this specification, have at least 2 years of proven field experience
meet IEEE C37.90 or IEC 60255 and approved by Power System Engineering
Department prior to purchase. Complete specifications, installation instructions,
and an original printed copy of the IED maintenance bulletin must be provided for
this review. The supporting document must indicate calculated IEDs life
expectancy and reliability data including anticipated Mean Time Between Failure
(MTBF) and Mean Time To Repair (MTTR). Sample IEDs may be requested by
Saudi Aramco for field testing and verification prior to IED approval.

6.2 The PSA IED shall conform to the latest revision of standards and associated
Amendments shown in Table 1.

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Table 1 – PSA IED Standard Compliance

Control and Laboratory Use
IEC1010-1 (EN61010-1): Safety Requirements for Electrical Equipment for
Safety
Measurement, Control and Laboratory Use
IEC 61850
IEEE C37-90.1: IEEE Standard Surge Withstand Capability Tests for Relays
and Relay Systems associated with Electric Power Apparatus
Electromagnetic IEC61000-4-2 (EN61000-4-2/IEC801-2): Electrostatic Discharge Standards
Immunity and Surge for Commercial Electronic Products
Withstand Capability IEC61000-4-3 (EN61000-4-3/IEC801-3): Radiated EM Field Immunity
IEC61000-4-4 (EN61000-4-4/IEC801-4): Electric Fast Transient
IEC 61850
FCC Part 15, Subpart B, for Class A devices
CISPR 11/EN 55011: Emission Standard for Industrial, Scientific, and Medical
(ISM) Radio RF Equipment (Group 1, Class A)
Electromagnetic IEC 62052-11 : Electricity Metering Equipment (AC)General Requirements,
Emissions Tests and Test Conditions- Part 11: Metering Equipment
EN61000-6-4: Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC)- Part 6-4: Generic
Standards - Emissions Standards for Industrial Environment
IEC 61850

6.3 Availability and Reliability

Protective devices shall meet the availability described in the figure bellow.
The curve shows fifteen years of operation life during which no more than 3%
failures of installed population is acceptable.
Note: This % failure is for the entire period.

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6.4 Protective device power supply shall be rated for nominal 125 V DC and
120 V AC

6.5 Relay AC voltage input shall be 66/115 V or 69/120 V as required.

6.6 Current input shall be rated for 5 amps or 1 amp as an option if required.

6.7 IED based relays shall provide multiple digital communication ports:
 One rear serial port RS485
 Front USB or TCP/IP RJ-45 Port for engineering access
 Two multimode fiber optic Ethernet ports supporting RSTP, IEC-61850
(MMS, GOOSE).

IED based relays shall support multiple open protocols (including DNP).

6.8 IED based relays time synchronization shall be based on a broadcast from the
system server (workstation) and / or from a GPS time receiver to comply with
the one millisecond time synchronization accuracy requirement.

6.9 IED based relays shall have self-monitoring feature and fault records capturing
capability.

6.10 Relays shall be flush or semi-flush mounted. If withdrawable, the relay draw-
out feature shall safely isolate the relay from voltage and current sources, and
shall short the current transformer connections with a make-before-break action.

6.11 IED based relays shall have pre-set and programmable visual indication
facilities to show alarm, control and trip operation.

6.12 Specific Requirements

6.12.1 IED based relays shall have the capability to store alarms, control and
protection events automatically through programming facility or a
manual trigger. Relays shall have inherent capability to display this
information without the use of external devices and to communicate
this information to a remote location. Normal reset of targets shall not
delete this information.

6.12.2 As a minimum, both phase and ground inverse time overcurrent relays
shall be capable of being set to any of the three characteristic curves
described as normal inverse, very inverse, and extremely inverse.
It shall be possible to set the ground relay characteristic independent of
the phase relay characteristic.

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6.12.3 Relays shall have voltage-free output contact.

6.12.4 Special test equipment or licensed software, supplied by the relay

manufacturer and required or recommended by the relay manufacturer
for testing, configuring, input of settings or analysis of oscillography
features shall be provided with the relays. This shall include
connecting leads and plugs.

6.12.5 Relays used as part of substation automation system shall be

IEC 61850 compliant with third party certification.
a) Relays installed at HV incomers, shall be capable of recording
minimum of three events with 120 cycles of three voltage and
four current channels and three cycle pre-event period at
minimum 64 samples per cycle. The designer is responsible for
providing an IED or combination of IEDs to achieve the required
sampling rate.
b) Motor feeder relays at HV switchgear shall have at least one start
record that can be triggered by the breaker status. Trends of
RMS values of phase currents and voltages shall be logged
during complete start with minimum of one reading/125 ms.

7 Acceptable Protective Devices

Acceptable protective devices can be found under the Control & Protective Relay Panel
9COM # 6000000845.

IEDs for feeder or incomer protection may be used in other general purpose
applications in addition to those listed in General Purpose Relays.

Single multifunction packages shall not provide the only protection to equipment that
requires second set of protection or back-up scheme. Functions which are considered as
back-up shall be provided by a second package or discreet relays.

Selected IEDs shall meet the minimum requirements as listed in this section in addition
to application requirements as defined in Saudi Aramco project engineering documents.

8 Revenue Metering Devices

8.1 Operating conditions shall meet requirements of Section 5, General

Requirements for Protective Devices.

8.2 Utility or third party revenue meters shall be approved by service provider
[Saudi Electric Company (SEC) or third party].
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8.3 Accuracy of the revenue meter shall be in accordance to ANSI or IEC with 0.2
accuracy class.

8.4 The meter shall be programmable for different tariff schemes including time of
use (TOU) with ten years programmable calendar.

8.5 Security feature to lock the meter physically and / or by password shall be
provided.

8.6 Communication means such as IEC61850, Modbus, Modbus TCP, or DNP3

shall be provided.

9 General Requirements for Work Stations/Servers

Workstation and servers will be designed to have the following requirements:

9.1 CCR

9.1.1 Server
 Server will be rack mounted.
 Power supply should be from a reliable battery backed up source.
 Hard Drives will be industrial static type.
 Memory (RAM) should be ECC type.
 All peripherals (keyboard, mouse, etc.) will be installed within a panel.
 Monitor will be installed within a panel and will have an aspect ratio
of 16:9 with minimum 1680 x 1050 resolution and 17” in size
 Data storage will be configured to RAID 5.
 Server should have an internal USB port to host all software license
dongle.
 CPU and memory utilization shall not exceed more than 50% of the
anticipated load.
 Server will be designed for indoor operation in an air-conditioned
environment between 0 and 40°C, with a relative humidity between 5
and 95%, non-condensing.
 Protocol Gateways shall be an embedded system (none windows).
 When more than one server/workstation is installed in the same
panel, a keyboard, video and mouse (KVM) switch can be used.

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9.1.2 Workstation
 Workstation will be either rack mounted or table mounted.
 Power supply should be from a reliable battery backed up source.
 Hard Drives will be industrial static type.
 Memory (RAM) should be ECC type.
 All peripherals (keyboard, mouse, etc.) will be installed within a panel.
 Monitor will have an aspect ratio of 16:9 with minimum 1680 x 1050
resolution and 19” in size
 Data storage virtualization will be configured to RAID 0.
 Workstation should have an internal USB port to host all software
license dongle.
 CPU and memory utilization shall not exceed more than 50% of the
anticipated load.
 Workstation will be designed for indoor operation in an air-conditioned
environment between 0 and 40°C, with a relative humidity between 5
and 95%, non-condensing.

9.2 Substation

9.2.1 Server
 Server will be industrial type and rack mounted.
 Dual power supply with hot swap capabilities. Recommended power
supply is 125 V DC unless otherwise specified in project design
specification.
 Hard Drives will be industrial static type.
 Memory (RAM) should be ECC type.
 All peripherals (keyboard, mouse, etc.) will be installed within a panel.
 Monitor will be installed within a panel and will have an aspect ratio
of 16:9 with minimum 1680 x 1050 resolution and 19” in size
 Server should have an internal USB port to host all software license
dongle.
 CPU and memory utilization shall not exceed more than 50% of the
anticipated load.

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 Server will be designed for indoor operation in an air-conditioned

environment between 0 and 55°C, with a relative humidity between 5
and 95%, non-condensing.
 Protocol Gateways shall be an embedded system (none windows).
 When more than one server/workstation is installed in the same
panel, a keyboard, video and mouse (KVM) switch can be used.

9.2.2 Workstation
 Workstation will be industrial type and either rack mounted
 Dual power supply with hot swap capabilities. Recommended power
supply is 125 V DC unless otherwise specified in project design
specification.
 Hard Drives will be industrial static type.
 Memory (RAM) should be ECC type.
 All peripherals (keyboard, mouse, etc.) will be installed within a panel.
 Monitor will have an aspect ratio of 16:9 with minimum 1680 x 1050
resolution and 19” in size
 Workstation should have an internal USB port to host all software
license dongle.
 CPU and memory utilization shall not exceed more than 50% of the
anticipated load.
 Annunciator screen should be a touch screen industrial type with a
minimum 50” size.
 Workstation will be designed for indoor operation in an air-
conditioned environment between 0 and 55°C, with a relative
humidity between 5 and 95%, non-condensing.

10 General Requirements for Network Switches

10.1 Industrial type switches meeting requirements of 23-SAMSS-701, Industrial

Ethernet Switch Specifications with the following additional requirements:
a) Power supply for switches specified for substation shall be 125 VDC.
b) Shall be IEC61850 compliant.

10.2 Site Conditions

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Network Switches equipment shall be designed for indoor operation in an air-

conditioned environment between 0 and 40°C, with a relative humidity between
5 and 95%, non-condensing.

11 Specifications of PSA Software

11.1 The PSA software shall support multiple workstation(s) in a Server / Client
network.

11.2 The PSA software shall be IEC61850 compliant.

11.3 The PSA software shall natively support the ability to export/import historical
waveform data records in COMTRADE format.

11.4 The PSA software shall have a database management component to provide
selective removal of any range of records from the database and database files
archiving on magnetic tape or other off-line storage media.

11.5 The PSA software shall support standard operating system Copy and Paste
functions from table and chart views of historical and event data logs, making
the information available to other operating system applications.

11.6 The PSA software shall provide a utility that provides data manipulation and
communications to third party systems. This utility shall support the following
features:
a) The ability to autonomously collate information that has been acquired
from multiple sources, using diverse protocols, and allows the information
to be processed for user-defined analysis and logging purposes.
b) It shall be readily upgraded to interface with additional features and
protocols as required, without losing the existing configuration.
c) The ability to interface with multiple protocols concurrently, including
OPC, DNP, and Modbus RTU, etc.).
d) The ability to obtain and process information from an arbitrary number of
IEDs simultaneously.
e) The ability to combine set points, scheduling, arithmetic capability in a PC
environment.
f) Capable of launching IED specific software applications.

11.7 Management of Energy Consumption Data

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a) The ability to support time-of-use (TOU) energy and demand calculations

which includes energy accumulation, customized time of use and sliding
window demands (MW).
b) Per area power consumption.

11.8 Security and Authentication

11.8.1 Authentication and authorization of Workstation operating system and

PSA applications shall comply with SAEP-99.

11.8.2 PSA application shall support wide area network (WAN) interface via
firewall.

11.8.3 The software shall support tools for user authentication and password
management; it shall also support multiple levels of privileges.

11.8.4 The software shall support secure access to diagrams based on Area of
Responsibility (AOR).

11.8.5 Additional Features

a) Availability of standard electric utility/industry graphical object
libraries including transformer, busbar, breaker, switch, etc. in
popular graphical formats, and to import user files from other
operating system graphical applications.
b) The ability to present an arbitrary number of diagrams at the
same time and to pan and zoom any diagram screen.
c) The ability to use animation, including changing shape, changing
color, flashing symbols, Boolean (status) via bitmap files or
equivalent files.
d) Grouping windows that enable the user to reduce clutter in a
diagram by placing grouped information in separate windows.

e) Screen hotspot objects (poke points) for control functions and to

open diagrams, giving multilevel hyperlinking between diagrams.
f) Text and alphanumeric objects to display static text on the screen
for messages, instructions and labeling,
g) Support graphical representation of user-selected data values
including waveforms as a function of time (data trending displays).
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h) Support intelligent alarm acknowledgment and user-defined

alarm priority levels for categories of displayed events.
i) Annunciate alarms only at the operating station(s) for which the
user interface has been configured to do so.
j) Annunciate alarm conditions, using any combination of the
following techniques:
1) Visual indicators (color, flashing title bar),
2) Audible indicators, and
3) Computer network messaging.
k) Support user-defined acknowledgment authorization levels for
categories of displayed alarms displayed on each or all
workstation(s) as part of the AOR requirement.
l) Record the user name and time of acknowledgment of an alarm
condition.
m) Automatic Line Coloring
n) Variable zoom with automatic de-cluttering

11.8.6 Support supervisory control of “on/off” (two-state) devices using the

following consecutive actions:
a) Control actions executed on an IED shall be confirmed by user
input through an additional message. i.e., select before operate
principle.
b) Failures shall result in the automatic de-selection of the point;
controls shall not be automatically retried.

11.9 HMI Software

11.9.1 Acceptable PSA HMI Software can be found under the Control &
Protective Relay Panel 9COM # 6000000845.

11.9.2 Software Life Expectancy

Software shall be supported for minimum period of 15 years. Prior to

phasing out or discontinuation of the product a 2 year notification shall
be provided.

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Revision Summary
15 May 2016 Major revision to the existing SAMSS after conducting value engineering session with all IED
manufacturers to capitalize on market competition by having manufacturers providing the most
economic and advanced products to Saudi Aramco.

16 April 2019 Editorial revision to remove vendor names, brand names, and requirement against SAEP-302
waiver process.

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