In this paper, the author describes a case study of a large substation integration design project. The project involves complete integration and automation of distribution and transmission within the substation. The critical design factors that the customer required are discussed, followed by system designs presented to the customer. The author steps through the project with the aid of lessons ...

When a power utility considers the introduction of a new component in their substation, it is primarily faced with costs. Each proposed investment must be defended facing the management. In the simplest situation a new component with higher performance will just be substituted for an older one. In this case the existing methodologies are sufficient to assess the economic impact of the investmen...

An expert system for distribution planning is proposed in this paper. Choosing a best location of a distribution substation and grouping the various load points to be fed from a particular distribution substation has always been a concern to the distribution planners. Here in this paper the authors present a hybridization of K-means clustering method with fuzzy context aware decision algorithm ...

Successful operation of entire power system depends to a considerable extent on efficient and satisfactory performance of substations. Hence substations in general can be considered as heart of overall power system. In any substation, a well designed grounding plays an important role. Since absence of safe and effective grounding system can result in mal-operation or non-operation of control an...

This paper presents the concept of the generalized power source in an active distribution network. After the energy storage system (ESS), distributed generators (DG), and demand-side controllable load are connected to the active distribution network, part of the system load can be undertaken by these ESS, DG, and controllable load instead of relying on the capacity of the substation, which grea...

Received Apr 11, 2017 Revised Apr 28, 2017 Accepted Jun 17, 2017 This paper presents a novel smart local backup protection SLBP used for the support and backup of the protective relays in a smart substation. The proposed SLBP is based on the IEC61850 standards and the concept consists of the acquisition of Generic Object Oriented Substation Event GOOSE used for tripping and interlocks exchange ...

In this paper, an efficient neural network based estimation technique has been studied to estimate the magnetic field strength near any power substation, and to assess the possible exposure to electromagnetic radiation received by the residents living near that substation. The measurement and the estimation were carried out in close proximity to different high powered equipment at four differen...

This paper shows the capabilities of applying the three-dimensional finite element method (3D-FEM) for designing complex-shaped substation connectors to operate at 765 kVRMS AC. To check this methodology, it was analyzed the feasibility of upgrading a 400 kVRMS substation connector to operate at 765 kVRMS. However, both experimental and simulation results conducted according to the ANSI/NEMA CC...

Most substations today contain a large number of Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs), each of which captures and stores locally measured analogue signals, and monitors the operating status of plant items. A key issue for substation data analysis is the adequacy of our knowledge available to describe certain concepts of power system states. It may happen sometimes that these concepts cannot be...

As the latest standard that is quickly gaining popularity in power substation automation, IEC 61850 offers self-descriptive object data models, standardized configurability with Substation Configuration Language (SCL), the promise of interoperations among intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) from different manufacturers, and lower integration installation costs. The IEC 61850 standard initiall...