ELCOM-90 : rules for result code 128..254

Hello, My project group is developing several communication links between SCADA and EMS systems of electricity utilities using the ELCOM-90 protocol. We are faced with the following problem : According to ELCOM-90 each API call can return a result code form 0..254. Values from 0..127 are reserved but values from 128..254 are system implementation dependent reason. Do you known if some rules are defined (by the ELCOM-90 community ?) for the numbering of these values (128..254) ? Thank you,

Patrick Jacobs                               
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DMS-Safety Switching Schedule

Hello, I am working on a Distribution SCADA Project for a customer in England. One of the requirements for the customer is a "Safety and Switching Schedule" function. It's basically an off-line Maintenance management system, wherein the operator is instructed to follow a pre-defined switching sequence/ schedule inorder to carry out any operation on a Breaker, Isolator, Power Transformer etc. If anyone has worked on such a system or developed one, I would really appreciate the gesture of throwing more light on this topic. Warm Regards,

 Rajsekar
 
 V RAJSEKAR,
 DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER - SCADA/DMS
 GE HARRIS ENERGY SYSTEMS,
 Melbourne, FL 32934
 Phone : 407-752 8917
 E-mail : vrajseka@ccd.harris.com

RE: DMS-Safety Switching Schedule

We delivered several SCADA systems to Electrabel, the Belgian Utility. Our customer, Electrabel, developed a software package called LIMA for "LIste de MAnoeuvres" that covers the requirements you described. They intend to couple this off-line package with their SCADA systems in order to get an on-line supervision of the switching sequence. You could try to contact Herwig Vandenbosch from Electrabel (SMTP:herwig.vandenbosch@electrabel.be) for further information. He suggested also you could have a look to the report of the CIGRE september 92) : 38-106 Génération automatique et interactive de listes de manoeuvres pour un réseau complexe THT-HT. Regards,

 Patrick Jacobs                E-mail : patrick.jacobs@trasys.be
 Trasys S.A.                    tel.        : +32 2 773 88 78
 Energy Product Line fax.       : +32 2 773 79 30
 Avenue Ariane, 7
 1200 Brussels
 Belgium

Re: DMS-Safety Switching Schedule

Interesting concept - the maintenance switching. I would say that we did something very similar at PSEG when I was there - its called SUFW (set up for work) - the command basically turned on instantaneous and turned off reclosing on a breaker or recloser to make the unit ready for downstream line work. There is no reason this could not be extended to actual switching operations - think of it as a spreadsheet macro - you push one button to execute several predetermined commands. Regards,

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Re: DMS-Safety Switching Schedule

Rajsekar We sold several SCADA systems to electric substation monitoring and control. Some of our customer ask us to implement a pre-defined switching sequence like:

- isolate a breaker;

- transfer a breaker to a specific bay for maintenance aspects;

- etc. To solve this customer needs we defined some elements in our SCADA software. I will present you this elements in a resumed way, maybe it can help you. The elements involved in our implementation are:

a)- Time schedule It's a programmable time schedule matrix that can be associated to any process variable (DI,DO,AI,AO or calculated) or a recipe. It will cause a significant event. To each variable you can have more then one matrix (normal, weekend, special and eventual)

b)- Significant Event and Event Process A significant event is:

- occurrence of a time schedule;

- one variable (input, output, calculated) assume a defined range value

- Change the status of a variable;

- Variable return to a specified status;

- Receive a message;

- Occurrence of an alarm/event;

The SCADA has a real time event process that activate the element associated to the event:

- activate a standard method (see d);

- Activate as user method (see d)

- Recalculate a formula using updated values;

- Activate an recipe

- send a message to an external process;

c)- Recipes (Automatic switching) Can be activated by:

- Operator command;

- Event Process;

The recipes are a kind of simple scripts where you have implemented:

- sequence of methods;

- expressions using data base tags of variables;

- If then else

- Do until

- Call another recipe;

- time delay

d)- Methods There are two kind of the methods:

d1)- Standard: like digital output, analog output, etc. that are available in the SCADA software as OLE-DLL functions;

d2)- The user defined methods: are programs or OLE-DLL developed by the users according their needs or the peculiarities of their process. This functions access the real time data base using API calls to a SCADA DLL.

Concluding, you can implement a pre-defined switching sequence as result of the execution either a recipe or an user method. Once these sequences are common to several users, they can develop general methods useful to different users applications an make it available in a library. Regards,

 Clovis Simões
 Spin Engenharia de Automação ltda
 http: www.techsoft.softex.br/~spin/spin1.htm
 E-mail: spin@nutecnet.com.br 
             spin@tba.com.br

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