A fast and reliable blocked bus bar protection scheme leveraging on sampled value and GOOSE protection based on IEC 61850 architecture

Substation Automation System (SAS) is in a matured state and promises to replace conventional protection scheme. It has created a new paradigm in its application for future smart grids. The multifunction features of IEC 61850 facilitate this technology to reliably monitor, protect and control critical assets. Mostly agree, the intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) and substation automation features have the same effect as 'html' had in developing web technology on IT system in 1990's. However, in order to be acceptable completely, this technology needs to gain confidence of end user, it needs to be researched further using multivendor equipment and experimented in a network comprising of complex secondary protection schemes. In this paper, a practical Blocked Busbar Protection (BBP) scheme have been implemented and tested for a single bus bar scheme, leveraging on Sampled Values (SV) and Generic Object Oriented Substation Event (GOOSE) at laboratory to prove its reliability and improvement in technology. This experiment has been carried out for three scenarios in a simulated substation network related to a process plant industry. Furthermore, this laboratory-based experiment with multivendor IEDs evaluated performance of an Ethernet and FO based process bus network to validate overall performance of BBP protection scheme. It concluded with a comparison between digital and conventional protection scheme with recommendation for future applications.