OBJECT-ORIENTED TOOL FOR SUBSTATION DESIGN

This paper presents a prototype of a tool (OOSD) which models and pres erves the wide body of substation design expertise. In essence, OOSD c onverts basic design specifications such as type of substation, power rating, voltage-levels, and other network data into one or more detail ed substation designs consisting of the single-line diagram, the gener al-electrical specifications and detailed analysis reports (which incl ude studies on insulation coordination, short-circuits,-reliability an d cost). The tool is developed using object-oriented programming in C+ because of its many advantages, notably-knowledge encapsulation, pol ymorphism and code reusability. A powerful GUI allows easy access to a ll design facilities.