ISLAND_DETECT

Passive islanding detection combining ROCOF, vector shift and a voltage/frequency window.

Validated application blockMG · PCC & ProtectionIEC 61131-3v1.0.0

When to use it

Use ISLAND_DETECT when a microgrid or DER site needs a supervisory answer to whether the utility source is still present, from PCC voltage, frequency and phase-angle measurements it already has, alongside (not instead of) the active anti-islanding running inside the inverters.

Interface

The published port signature. This is the whole of what the block exposes to your program — the implementation body is not shown here and ships with the download.

Inputs

PortTypeUnit
ENABLEBOOL—
FREQREALHz
ANGREALdeg
V_PUREALpu
MEAS_OKBOOL—
F_NOMREALHz
DFDT_LIMREALHz/s
SHIFT_DEGREALdeg
V_LO_PUREALpu
V_HI_PUREALpu
F_LO_HZREALHz
F_HI_HZREALHz
FILT_SREALs
CONFIRM_TTIME—
GRID_OK_TTIME—
ACKBOOL—

Outputs

PortTypeUnit
ISLANDEDBOOL—
GRID_OKBOOL—
METHODUSINT—
DETECTBOOL—
DFDTREALHz/s
ANG_SHIFTREALdeg
VALIDBOOL—
ALM_MEAS_FAULTBOOL—
ALM_CFG_ERRBOOL—

Validation evidence

Tests
10
Simulated scans
166
Simulator
v0.1.0

Complete IEC 61131-3 implementation with a published test suite that runs on the vplant simulator. The counts above are that suite, executed on this build.

  • Conforms to IEC 61131-3

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