Wind Farm Integration Protection Scheme with IEC 61850 and 18 Vestas Turbines

A 9.6 MB thesis dataset from figshare presents a coordinated protection system for a large-scale wind farm integrated into a modified IEEE 9-bus power system. The system uses eighteen Vestas V117-4.2 MW wind turbine generator units and is modeled with RTDS and RSCAD FX software. The author, Yongama Gcelu, validated the IEC 61850-based scheme via hardware-in-the-loop testing, with results confirming improved fault detection speed and communication latency.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking communication latency and fault detection speed for IEC 61850 GOOSE messaging in smart grids.
• Modeling and validating transformer differential protection logic for high-voltage transformers in wind farms.
• Conducting hardware-in-the-loop testing of protection relay coordination under various fault conditions.
• Analyzing the performance of SEL-487E and SEL-751A relays in a coordinated protection scheme for renewable integration.

Strengths

• Includes a specific test network: a modified IEEE 9-bus system with 18 Vestas V117-4.2 MW wind turbine units.
• Validation methodology is detailed, using Real-Time Digital Simulator (RTDS) and hardware-in-the-loop testing.
• Results confirm specific performance metrics: improved fault detection speed, communication latency, and coordination accuracy.

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; data structure must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is 9.6 MB, which is a small scale and may contain primarily documentation and simulation files.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Yongama Gcelu.

Collection Method

Thesis research involving system modeling and hardware-in-the-loop testing.

Time Range

Temporal coverage is not specified in the description.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-15 08:01:31; freshness should be verified.

Geography

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