IEC 61850: Believe or don´t believe in testing. That is the question!
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Paper number
837
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Conference name
CIRED 2019
Conference date
3-6 June 2019
Conference location
Madrid, Spain
Peer-reviewed
Yes
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Authors
Cardenas, Jorge, GE Grid Automation, Spain
Løken, Rannveig , Statnett, Norway
Martin, Javier, Red Electrica de España, Spain
Mendez, Jose, GE Grid Automation, Canada
Rodriguez, Joaquin , GE Grid Automation, Spain
Arribas, Diego, Red Electrica de España, Spain
Ruiz Ayala, Daniel, Red Electrica de España, Spain
Løken, Rannveig , Statnett, Norway
Martin, Javier, Red Electrica de España, Spain
Mendez, Jose, GE Grid Automation, Canada
Rodriguez, Joaquin , GE Grid Automation, Spain
Arribas, Diego, Red Electrica de España, Spain
Ruiz Ayala, Daniel, Red Electrica de España, Spain
Abstract
Since beginning of electricity, testing of
electrical devices, as relays, was an exclusive matter of electrical engineers,
who designed devices and instruments to emulate or try to replicate the
behaviour of the electrical network.As
majority of devices were a small replica of the main network components
(generators, inductances, resistances, capacitances, etc.), test equipment
utilized those components together with basic instrumentation as needle
voltmeters and ammeters.As technology evolves, and relays and other
instruments become digital, but still electrical in sensing; it appears more
sophisticated test equipment (digital also), where the internal process start
visualizing a screen where engineers write numbers that represents magnitudes
in amperes, volts, hertz, etc. and proceed to enable the machine to “inject”
the corresponding value into the device under test. Inside the test machine,engineer cannot see all process and he believes that
what is happening in the test machine and in the device under test is true.As
IEC 61850 is being implemented in areas before dominated exclusively by
electricity, the need of signals, now optical and digital to do testing has
been increased exponentially and the process on how the testing must be done.
With new devices, where the communication aspects become crucial, testing
procedure approaches more and more with the one used to test software than
hardware and now electrical engineers faced a dilemma: How confident we feel in
the fact that new process is giving us the expected results?
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Publisher
AIM
Date
2019-06-03
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https://cired-repository.org/handle/20.500.12455/167
http://dx.doi.org/10.34890/331
http://dx.doi.org/10.34890/331
ISSN
2032-9644
ISBN
978-2-9602415-0-1