by Thomas Charton, National Grid, UK, Dieter Binon, Elia, Belgium and Rene Troost, Stedin, The Netherlands It is no secret that Protection, Automation and Control Systems (PACS) are slowly evolving...
Issue 058 December 2021
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Featured Articles
Verification of Electronic Design Documents in SCD file format...
Requirements and Practical Experience By Alexander Semerenko, Dmitry Tretyakov, ROSSETI Volga, Alexander Golovin, Alexey Anoshin, TEKVEL R&D, Russia Using the SCL language in the design of...
Redundancy techniques in a Digital IEC 61850 substation PAC...
By Andres Rodriguez and Carlos Polanco, ENEL Codensa, Colombia, and Ivan Otarola and Julder Uzcategui, SOLTEC Soluciones Teleinformaticas y Control, Peru/Venezuela During the last years there has...
System based Protection Testing in Digital Substations
By Eugenio Carvalheira, OMICRON electronics, and Glenn Wilson, Southern Company Since the introduction of digital relays, it became evident that the test procedures adopted by the industry in the...
Process Bus Based Protection Operations
By Chu Cheng, and Randall Kimura, (retired), AltaLink Management Ltd, Canada AltaLinkhas traditionally installed P&C systemsbased on engineering standards. These standards utilize copper...
Process Interface Units and its Advantages for Full Digital...
By Adriano Oliveira Pires and Hector Leon, GE Renewable Energy, Brazil, Leandro de Marchi Pintos (Brazil), Patrick Montaner (France) and Chee-Pinp Teoh (UK), GE Renewable Energy In the context of...
If you don’t feel as if you are too early, you may be late...
by Fred Steinhauser, OMICRON electronics GmbH, Austria To achieve much in your lifetime, patience is not the most useful habit There are several reasons to attend a funeral service. One is to show...
Editorial
Editorial – Issue 058 September 2021
Not If but When by Alex Apostolov, Editor-in-Chief It was not that long ago when people were asking should we build a digital substation and the answer to this question is already obvious – yes, we...
Last Word
The Digital Substations Market Growth
The development of the IEC 61850 standard has been going on for a quarter of a century and we already know that there are thousands of substations using this technology all over the world. So, one of...
The Guru
Interview with PAC World guru Mark Adamiak
PAC World: When and where were you born? M.A.: 1953 in Teaneck, NJ, USA. PAC World: Where did you go to school? M.A.: St. Joseph’s grammar school, Demarest, NJ; Bergen Catholic HS, Oradell NJ;...
History
Testing Technology in the 1930s (Part 2)
by Walter Schossig, Germany, and Thomas Schossig, OMICRON electronics GmbH, Austria After the introduction and the first details in the first article, we will continue with more details on the...