Master’s Degree Thesis Report Karthik Gopinath Sharma
[email protected] September 19, 2019 Implementation of IEC 61499 Applications for Centralized Power System Protection Platform SUPERVISORS Prof. Oriol Gomis Bellmunt(UPC) Tin Rabuzin (KTH) Escola Tecnica` Superior d’Enginyeria Industrial de Barcelona 1 Page No. 1 Acknowledgements To InnoEnergy Master’s School for giving me two years of free and superior edu- cation in the field of Smart Grids and Renewable Energy I could ever ask for. To UPC, Barcelona and KTH, Stockholm two of the finest universities along with the best professors and friends enabling me to enjoy the journey throughout my double master’s degree. To my supervisors, Oriol Gomis Bellmunt and Tin Rabuzin, for allowing me to pursue this project as part of my master thesis and being there with me throughout the dura- tion of the Master Thesis guiding me with their knowledge and experience. To Alois Zoitl, for taking his precious time out in helping me to understand a criti- cal issue during the project. To my family, for being my support always. Page No. 2 Abstract With the onset of distributed energy resources in the electricity generation, the sce- narios for protection and automation are becoming challenging. Even with guidelines like IEC61850 which focuses on digital substations there is a big issue in terms of inte- grating systems from different vendors. On the other hand IEC 61499 is moving ahead with enabling distributed automation and control in Industrial environment. This report aims to answer if it is possible to design an IED based on IEC61850 us- ing IEC61499.