© Copyright 2014 SISCO. All Rights Reserved Using IEC and CIM for Disturbance Data Management CIGRÉ 2014 – UCAIug Stand # August Ralph Mackiewicz SISCO, Inc ½ Mile Road Sterling Heights, MI USA Tel: x103 Fax:

© Copyright 2014 SISCO. All Rights Reserved Traditional COMTRADE Application Individual engineers use stand-alone power system analysis tools to transfer and analyze COMTRADE disturbance data from IEDs. After analysis and a potential corrective action what happens to the COMTRADE data: –Deleted –Files stored locally and isolated –The underlying power system data is not avialalbe outside the tool used for analysis 2

© Copyright 2014 SISCO. All Rights Reserved A Better Way to Process COMTRADE 3

© Copyright 2014 SISCO. All Rights Reserved The Role of IEC in COMTRADE Processing Disturbance file presence detection: –IEC FileDirectory service polling –RDRE – Disturbance Recorder Monitoring RDRE.ST.RcdMade (recording made) RDRE.ST.FltNum (fault number) 4

© Copyright 2014 SISCO. All Rights Reserved Role of CIM in COMTRADE Processing The IEC Common Information Model (CIM) is used to define the power system and its assets CIM is imported into the historian where COMTRADE is processed Enables disturbance data is associated to the assets impacted Enables events to be associated to the disturbance file for later retrieval 5 Central Generating Station Step-Up Transformer Distribution Substation Receiving Station Distribution Substation Distribution Substation Commercial Industrial Commercial Gas Turbine Recip Engine Cogeneration Recip Engine Fuel cell Micro- turbine Flywheel Residential Photo voltaics Batteries CIM

© Copyright 2014 SISCO. All Rights Reserved Relating the Disturbance File to the Asset Using CIM 6 Link events to one or more assets enabling analysis of disturbance impact on an asset basis Disturbance File Definition CIM Transformer Definition

© Copyright 2014 SISCO. All Rights Reserved Original Files Archived as Part of an Event and the Asset 7

© Copyright 2014 SISCO. All Rights Reserved COMTRADE Utility for PI All disturbance files are transferred automatically and archived in the PI historian. Disturbance data from COMTRADE files is extracted and store in PI along with all other power system data. Using CIM with PI Asset Framework (PI AF) enable related of disturbance files to the asset and an event. Data can be exported into COMTRADE file for sharing with others (e.g. synchrophasors). 8

Thank You © Copyright 2014 SISCO. All Rights Reserved 9 Questions? Ralph Mackiewicz SISCO, Inc ½ Mile Road Sterling Heights, MI USA Tel: x103 Fax: