SUBSTATION

AUTOMATION
IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE IEC 61850 STANDARDS

SELTA offers a new integrated digital system for the automation of the HV and VHV
power substations, based on the most advanced technologies, able to manage and to
carry out several functionalities: control, automation, protection, monitoring and
maintenance.

All SELTA systems are natively compliant with the most widespread current regulations, in
particular with the IEC 61850, IEC 61131 and IEC 60870 standards.

The SELTA solution includes electronic units -Bay Control Units- installed next to each
power bay, which are specialized by function and interconnected through an optical LAN,
controlled by a station computer.
This is the ideal system for the Utilities managing HV and VHV power networks, that want
to renew their substation control and automation systems, in order to maximize the
efficiency and the quality of service.
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Main Features

x Univocal and scaleable architecture, easy to be
extended (with multiple subracks), based on the
concept of interoperability among the several
control, monitoring and protection units.
x The automation, both centralized and distributed
on the several bays, is realized by software
programs according to IEC 61131 standard
language program, instead of old
electromechanical relays logic.
x Station LAN conforming with the 100Mb/s
Ethernet industrial standard or 100Mb/s Fibre
optic connection and with a unique IEC 61850
standard protocol. It guarantees the
interoperability among the different Bay Units
and with the protection relays, allowing the
upgrade in different stages of the single
equipment or the integration of different
equipment of other suppliers.
x Integration into the system of protections and
IED equipment provided with standard buses or
with serial proprietary interfaces.
x Synchronization of the whole system can be
distributed by GPS receiver, connected to the
station computer- transmitted to each single Bay
Unit through an optical network based on the
IRIG-B protocol and independent from the
Station LAN, or by NTP protocol, from two
different sources (primary and backup).
x Complete and easy plants configuration
management through the Engineering
workstation, with automatic and error free
procedures.
x Easy insertion of station automation system in
the hierarchically competent remote control
network, with IEC 60870 standard protocols and
with free access to all the information and
functionalities necessary for the optimization of
electric network operation and maintenance.
x Setting of
x Engineering
x Configuration tools
x Test and maintenance
using the most advanced standards.
x The system guarantees all functional
performances, respect of the environment
conditions and very high quality standards.
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The BCU
The BCU STCE
STCE SA-100
SA-100 and
(IEDBMU
I/O) STCE
and extension
SA-200 x Automation functions, either Multi-bay or local
measurement
allow executingsubrack
all bay allow executing
commands and all bay
control bay, carried out with IEC 61131-3 logics.
commands
functions, inand control functions, in particular:
particular:
x Process measurements (voltage, current, active
x Interface with the field signals both directly power, reactive power, frequency), through
through Input/Output cards, logically through direct transducerless connection.
the LAN or by serial interface to other devices,
x Possibility to configure a stand-alone system
using different type of protocols (IEC
with multiple input analogue transducerless
60870,Modbus, DNP3, etc..).
cards (8 voltage and 12 current) to interface, in
x Command and control circuit breakers and a single cabinet, more station bay,
disconnector switches, with direct connection concentrating in single node all the station
and without interposing relays. control and monitor features with the advantage
x Interlocking logics among devices of the same of IEC 61850 Technology.
bay and among devices of different bays. x Digital Events Recording with 1 ms resolution
x Direct connection with the protections, realized and subsequent forwarding to the station
through the LAN (GOOSE messages) or by computer for the out-of-line analysis.
serial connection. x Syncrocheck function, also with asynchronous
closings (network with different frequencies).

Station Computer EXPERT (SC)

The Station Computer (SC) collects of all the standards, in order to integrate the automation
information acquired by the bay units and it functions carried out by the BCU autonomously.
contains the complete Station database.
The SC provides all the necessary functionalities of: x Gateway function, refers to the interfacing with
the remote management maintenance centres (or
x Supervision
with possible local RTU used as gateway) in
x Management
accordance with the IEC 60870-5-101 and 104
x Automation protocols.
x Local and remote station maintenance
It is composed by a server, that can be
redounded in order to guarantee the
service continuity, and by a number of
workstations suitable to the operational
needs.
The main functions can be subdivided into:

x SCADA functions, dedicated to the

monitoring of the plant and to update
data base, through the continuous
connection with all the Bay Units linked
with the Station LAN.

x HMI/Web Server functions, allowing the

display of the whole substation layout
(with detailed zoom on each single bay), with the
possibility of real time analysis of status of
devices, alarms, measures, etc..
All the video pages are shown on the HMI or are
published through the WEB.
x Station Automation functions, which can be
configured according to the IEC61131-3
x Historical Data management, for the filing and
the subsequent extraction of the information
collected from the plant. In particular it is
possible to manage the electric network
perturbations chronological recording to be
utilized for further off-line analyses.
 Engineering Workstation (EW)

The EW allows carrying out all the configuration x Fault location software for offline analysis.
and maintenance functions of the whole system of
substation automation (BU e SC):
x Configuration of the whole station system (setting
of the logical nodes, of the web pages, of the
users profiles, of the I/O characteristics, of the
automation logics, of the external links) and
moreover import/export in XML format.

x Modification of the configuration parameters and

of the setting data using standard language
software.
x Modification of the configuration parameters and
of the setting data using standard language
software.

x Analysis of the current values on the Bay Units, of

the event recording files, of the snapshot data, of
the oscillographic data, directly connecting the
Web Server of the BCU.

SELTA SpA
29010 Cadeo (PC) Italy - Via Emilia, 231
Tel. +39-0523-5016.1 - Fax +39-0523-5016.333
info@selta.it - www.selta.com

Ed. 2 – 01/13