IEC 61850 Demonstration System with Netcon 500 and VAMP protection relays

Abstract

This thesis work was made in cooperation with VAMP Oy. The main purpose of this thesis was to configure the Netcon 500 RTU for implementing a demonstra-tion system that consists in an automated network of Intelligent Electronic De-vices that provide protection to substation faults and report events to a SCADA simulator using mainly the IEC 61850 protocol.

The development of this thesis involves some theoretical knowledge of power generation and distribution, and familiarization with the configuration of the SPA-Bus and IEC 61850 protocols, VAMP relays and the Netcon 500 RTU. This thesis contains the basic theory for the development of the system, an overview of the demonstration system and a configuration guide as an attachment that contains all the configuration steps of the development.

The results obtained from the development process of this thesis project were sat-isfactory because I successfully implemented a demonstration system for training VAMP customers in the configuration of protection functions, in the utilization and configuration of the IEC 61850 and SPA-Bus protocols and in the utilization of Simple Tester for monitoring VAMP relays. Based on the results obtained, I can conclude that VAMP Oy has from now on a working and suitable environ-ment for giving complete training courses of their protection relays.