Development of an experimental platform for analysis of self-healing method

Recent researches in energy transport seek on the smart grid a tool to modernize and automate the current distribution system, in a continuous search for improvements in continuity of power supply with self-healing methods applications. The development of an experimental smart distribution system in laboratory scale, proposed in this paper, meets the need for an evaluation, in a controlled environment, the effectiveness of these reconfiguration methods presented in the literature to then, apply them in real systems found in the field. It was defined a network model, emulated in a computer program witch integrate a heuristic method and multicriterial analysis, on Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system and in the developed experimental platform, in order to validate the presented reconfiguration methodology as well as the experimental platform, through test cases on contingency situation.