Practical Aspects of IEC 61850 Testing

Start: 10:00 am Central Time

The IEC 61850 standard for Communication Networks and Systems in substations needs no introduction. It sets the table for the existence of a very well-established set of tools aimed at achieving interoperability and which move the complexity of designing, commissioning, and testing, substation protection and control systems from the physical to the digital world. Communication protocols such as GOOSE and Sampled values now replace old style wired logic and analog signal connections from CT and PT by ethernet cords and digital messages. This new type of complexity makes it necessary to learn about testing tools and processes that go beyond the traditional voltage and current injection test sets and test procedures.

In this webinar we will present a high-level overview of performing practical, functional checks and testing on digital substations using Generic Object-Oriented System Events (GOOSE) and Sampled Values (SV). GOOSE and Sampled Values are briefly presented, as well as how they are used to replace analog and logical signals on protection and control schemes in digital substations. For testing, we show how to obtain GOOSE and SV from a network or SCL files and use them to configure and perform functional tests on IEDs using both analog signals and Sampled values injection paying special attention to the use of Mode and Behaviour during testing. Finally in the webinar we will also show how to check the operation of a Merging Unit (MU).

This is a free webinar

All webinar attendees are eligible to receive 1 NETA CTD and 1 PDH or 0.1 CEU. 
 

Abel González Gómez is a Senior Relay Applications Engineer with Megger Canada. He received his bachelor’s in electrical engineering and his MSc in Electrical Engineering from the Universidad Central de Las Villas, Cuba in 1996 and 2000.

From 1996 to 2000 Abel worked as an Assistant professor for the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Universidad Central de Las Villas, Cuba, from 2000 to 2010 as a Teletraffic Engineer, Control Engineer and Head of the Marketing Department for the Cuban Telecommunications Company and a professor of Marketing and Electrical Engineering, for the Universidad Central de Las Villas, Cuba.

From 2010 to 2013 worked as a Design Engineer for Arteche Medición y Tecnología in Zapopan, Jalisco, México and Curitiba, Brazil. From 2013 works as an applications Engineer for Megger, LTD in Markham, Ontario. His areas of focus are on the protection and control of electric power systems as well as testing and diagnostics of rotating machines.