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IEC 61850 & UCA 2.0 The two different approaches for Substation Automation By : Kuldeep Tickoo / Siemens India.
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IEC 61850 & UCA 2.0 The two different approaches for Substation Automation By : Kuldeep Tickoo / Siemens India.
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Brief Description about UCA 2.0
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Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) launched a concept in 1990 known as the Utility Communication Architecture or UCA. The goal behind UCA was to identify a suite of existing communication protocols that could be easily mixed and matched, provide the foundation for the functionality required to solve the utility enterprise communication issues, and be extensible for the future. After some initial revisions, the results of the project have been known as UCA 2.0. UCA 2.0 is described in a technical report TR 1550 of the IEEE [2].
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Brief description about IEC 61850
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The basis and the way of standardizing communications in IEC 61850 are entirely new. IEC 61850 was developed from IEC 60870-5-x and UCA 2.0.
Comprehensive EPRI project UCA 2.0 IEC 61850
International Agreed Goals
IEC 60870-5-101, -103, -104
The goal of this standard IEC 61850 Communication networks and systems in substations is to provide interoperability between the IEDs from different suppliers or, more precisely, between functions to be performed in a substation but residing in equipment (physical devices) from different suppliers. Interchangeability is outside the scope of this standard, but the objective of interchangeability will be supported following this standard. Interoperability has the following levels for devices from different suppliers: (1) The devices shall be connectable to a common bus with a common protocol (syntax) (2) The devices shall understand the information provided by other devices (semantics)
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(3) The devices shall perform together a common or joint function if applicable
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What does IEC 61850 achieve
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Defines structure for protection and control System Communication configuration between bay devices Standardised language for describing substation Standard communication with TCP - IP Fault records in Comtrade format
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Based on Ethernet standard
Time synchronisation with SNTP
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The idea behind IEC 61850: Separation
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Separation of:
(e.g. Protection)
IEC 61850:
Data Model
Application
(e.g. Control, Report)
Service
Services, Rules
(e.g. MMS/TCP/IP/Ethernet)
Communication
Mapping
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The idea behind IEC 61850: Logical Node
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Concept of a Logical Node
Configuration Data Output Data
Input Data
(e.g. protection function)
Basic Function
Functions still remain Vendor Specific Data Exchange becomes standardised
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IEC 61850 GOOSE Principle
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A device sends information by Multicasting. Only devices which are subscribers receive this message. In the example, Receiver Z receives the message. Receiver Y is not a subscriber.
GOOSE message
Ethernet
GOOSE Sender Device X
GOOSE Receiver Device Y
GOOSE Receiver Device Z
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Difference of IEC 61850 and UCA 2.0 : fast messaging GOOSE
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Overtaking path for IEC GOOSE Fast GOOSE Ethernet Switch
Normal message
Buffer for Normal Message
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Difference between IEC 61850 and UCA 2.0 : Data Model
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Conclusions
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UCA2.0 is only an IEEE technical report TR 1550 - not a standard IEC 61850 is not backward compatible with UCA2.0 If a utility installs a UCA2.0 system now and upgrades it to IEC 61850 later, the conversion would be time consuming and costly IEC 61850 specifies system and project management, but UCA2.0 does not IEC 61850 specifies quality assurance, environmental conditions etc, but UCA2.0 does not IEC 61850 provides engineering support through a substation configuration language, but UCA2.0 does not International agreement: only one standard - IEC 61850 Standards
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