B5.
Mission
To facilitate and promote international engineering progress, information exchange, and knowledge expansion in the field of protection and automation, focusing on protection, control, monitoring, measurement, and fault location, aiming to cover the entire power system, from transmission to distribution systems, including generation. To add value to this information and knowledge through synthesis of advanced practices, identification and evaluation of technological and functional development, and development of recommendations.
Technological Scope
Power system protection, substation control and automation, remote control systems and equipment, measurement systems and equipment.
Vision
To be recognized as the leading global reference on protection, control, monitoring, measurement, and fault location issues To be the provider of a global perspective on issues and challenges related to protection, control, monitoring, measurement, and fault location To be an independent expert on emerging technologies and provider of high-quality, unbiased publications on protection, control, monitoring, measurement, and fault location.
Scope
Within its technical scope of activity, Study Committee B5 deals with issues throughout the lifecycle stages of protection, control, monitoring, measurement, and fault location; from conception, through research, development, design, engineering, configuration, manufacturing, deployment, operation, and end of life. At all stages, technical and safety interactions with the evolving power system and operating environment and integration into it are addressed. All aspects of performance, specification, testing, and implementation of testing techniques are within range, with specific focus on the impact of interactions and changing requirements due to technology evolution and power system changes. Lifecycle assessment techniques, risk management techniques, education, and training are also included.
Within this framework, additional specific areas of attention include:
Theory, principles and concepts, functionality, technological development, design, performance and implementation of materials, efficiency. Application guidance, planning, installation, service conditions. Reliability, availability, dependability, maintenance and upkeep, service, condition monitoring, diagnostics, rehabilitation, repair, charging, upgrading, enhancement. Refurbishment, reuse/redeployment, deterioration, dismantling, disposal.
The following areas are of primary interest for SC B5:
Principles, methods and applications for power system protection, automation and control, including protection of networks connected to renewable energy resources Functional integration and virtualization of protection systems and substation automation systems Architectures of protection, automation and control systems including process interfaces, digital signaling, communication architecture, time synchronization and related issues New grid requirements covering the design and implementation of digital technology and modern communication system for modern and future networks including embedded generation techniques and smart grid techniques IEC 61850 based data model, protection, automation and control configuration and engineering Measurement Data acquisition process, modeling and publishing for protection applications, fault recording, measurement, monitoring and asset management (interface to HV equipment monitoring and HV equipment monitoring) Monitoring of protection devices and systems, control, measurement, fault location including associated communication equipment System-wide protection and control systems Investigation and evaluation of emerging technology for protection, automation and control across the power system Design, engineering, monitoring and performance evaluation of System Integrity Protection Systems (SIPS) Design, engineering, monitoring and performance of protection relay-based security and stability systems such as Automatic Under Frequency Load Shedding (AUFLS), Automatic Under Voltage Load Shedding (AUVLS), anti-islanding, fault ride through, automatic restoration scheme etc.
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