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Circuit-Breaker Control

The circuit breaker control function CBXCBR controls and monitors circuit breakers. It executes commands only when conditions allow for safe operation. CBXCBR has enabling and blocking functions for interlocking and synchronization. It provides status indication, operation counting, and controls circuit breaker opening and closing through direct control or secured object control in compliance with IEC 61850 standards.

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Circuit-Breaker Control

The circuit breaker control function CBXCBR controls and monitors circuit breakers. It executes commands only when conditions allow for safe operation. CBXCBR has enabling and blocking functions for interlocking and synchronization. It provides status indication, operation counting, and controls circuit breaker opening and closing through direct control or secured object control in compliance with IEC 61850 standards.

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Circuit-breaker control

Functionality
The circuit breaker control function CBXCBR is intended for circuit breaker control
and status information purposes. This function executes commands and evaluates
block conditions and different time supervision conditions. The function performs an
execution command only if all conditions indicate that a switch operation is allowed.
If erroneous conditions occur, the function indicates an appropriate cause value. The
function is designed according to the IEC 61850-7-4 standard with logical nodes
CILO, CSWI and XCBR.
The circuit breaker control function has an operation counter which counts the number
of circuit breaker openings. The counter value can be read and written remotely from
the place of operation or via LHMI.

Operation principle
Status indication and validity check
The object state is defined by two digital inputs, POSOPEN and POSCLOSE, which
are also available as outputs OPENPOS and CLOSEPOS together with the OKPOS
according to Table 460. The debouncing and short disturbances in an input are
eliminated by filtering. The binary input filtering time can be adjusted separately for
each digital input used by the function block. The validity of the digital inputs that
indicate the object state is used as additional information in indications and event
logging. The reporting of faulty or intermediate position of the apparatus occurs after
the Event delay setting, assuming that the circuit breaker is still in a corresponding
state.

Enabling and blocking


CBXCBR has an enabling and blocking functionality for interlocking and
synchrocheck purposes.
Circuit breaker control CBXCBR
Normally, the CB closing is enabled (that is, CLOSE_ENAD signal is TRUE) by
activating both ENA_CLOSE and SYNC_OK inputs. Typically, the ENA_CLOSE
comes from the interlocking, and SYNC_OK comes from the synchronism and
energizing check. The input SYNC_ITL_BYP can be used for bypassing this control.
The SYNC_ITL_BYP input can be used to activate CLOSE_ENAD discarding the
ENA_CLOSE and SYNC_OK input states. However, the BLK_CLOSE input always
blocks the CLOSE_ENAD output.
The CB opening (OPEN_ENAD) logic is the same as CB closing logic, except that
SYNC_OK is used only in closing. The SYNC_ITL_BYP input is used in both
CLOSE_ENAD and OPEN_ENAD logics.

Opening and closing operations


The opening and closing operations are available via communication, binary inputs or
LHMI commands. As a prerequisite for control commands, there are enabling and
blocking functionalities for both opening and closing commands (CLOSE_ENAD and
OPEN_ENAD signals). If the control command is executed against the blocking or if
the enabling of the corresponding command is not valid, CBXCBR generates an error
message.
When close command is given from communication, via LHMI or activating the
AU_CLOSE input, it is carried out (the EXE_CL output) only if CLOSE_ENAD is
TRUE.
OPEN and CLOSE outputs
The EXE_OP output is activated when the open command is given (AU_OPEN, via
communication or from LHMI) and OPEN_ENAD signal is TRUE. In addition, the
protection trip commands can be routed through the CBXCBR function by using the
TRIP input. When the TRIP input is TRUE, the EXE_OP output is activated
immediately and bypassing all enabling or blocking conditions.
The EXE_CL output is activated when the close command is given (AU_CLOSE, via
communication or from LHMI) and CLOSE_ENAD signal is TRUE. When the TRIP
input is “TRUE”, CB closing is not allowed.

Opening and closing pulse widths


The pulse width type can be defined with the Adaptive pulse setting. The function
provides two modes to characterize the opening and closing pulse widths. When the
Adaptive pulse is set to “TRUE”, it causes a variable pulse width, which means that the
output pulse is deactivated when the object state shows that the apparatus has entered
the correct state. If apparatus fails to enter the correct state, the output pulse is
deactivated after the set Operation timeout setting, and an error message is displayed.
When the Adaptive pulse is set to “FALSE”, the functions always use the máximum

Control methods
The command execution mode can be set with the Control model setting. The
alternatives for command execution are direct control and secured object control,
which can be used to secure controlling.
The secured object control SBO is an important feature of the communication
protocols that support horizontal communication, because the command reservation
and interlocking signals can be transferred with a bus. All secured control operations
require two-step commands: a selection step and an execution step. The secured object
control is responsible for the several tasks.
• Command authority: ensures that the command source is authorized to operate
the object
• Mutual exclusion: ensures that only one command source at a time can control the
object
• Interlocking: allows only safe commands
• Execution: supervises the command execution
• Command canceling: cancels the controlling of a selected object.
In direct operation, a single message is used to initiate the control action of a physical
device. The direct operation method uses less communication network capacity and
bandwidth than the SBO method, because the procedure needs fewer messages for
accurate operation.

Application
In the field of distribution and sub-transmission automation, reliable control and
status indication of primary switching components both locally and remotely is in a
significant role. They are needed especially in modern remotely controlled
substations.
Control and status indication facilities are implemented in the same package with
CBXCBR. When primary components are controlled in the energizing phase, for
example, the correct execution sequence of the control commands must be ensured.
This can be achieved, for example, with interlocking based on the status indication of
the related primary components. The interlocking on the substation level can be
applied using the IEC61850 GOOSE messages between feeders.

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