Committee Chair

Eltom, Ahmed H.

Committee Member

Craven, Stephen D.; Ofoli, Abdul, R.; Kobet, Gary L.

Department

Dept. of Electrical Engineering

College

College of Engineering and Computer Science

Publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Place of Publication

Chattanooga (Tenn.)

Abstract

International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 61850 is the latest technology that allows electric power utilities to build low cost digital substations. Because limited objective information is available, electric power utilities desire independent evaluations of IEC 61850 from end users. The objective of this study was to compare the IEC 61850 method to the hardwired method to find an optimal solution for the fast bus protection scheme. System disturbance clearing time, engineering and construction costs, and interoperability between multivendor microprocessor-based relays were used as the criteria for the evaluation. This research measured the protection speed of the hardwired method and the IEC 61850 method for the fast bus protection scheme, utilizing relays from the same and mixed manufacturers. The results of the study show that IEC 61850 method is simple, cost effective, and offers speed of operation comparable to the hardwired method.

Degree

M. S.; A thesis submitted to the faculty of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Science.

Date

5-2013

Subject

Electric power systems; Electric power distribution

Discipline

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Document Type

Masters theses

DCMI Type

Text

Extent

ix, 43 leaves

Language

English

Rights

https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en

License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

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