Protection and Control REX640 Generator 2NGA000429 ENa
Protection and Control REX640 Generator 2NGA000429 ENa
G U I D E F O R M S P EC I F I C AT I O N
The modularity and scalability of both software and hardware facilitates the coverage of any protection application requirement
that may arise during the complete life cycle of the relay and substation. The relay offers the user a possibility to upgrade and
modify the hardware and the functionality on site throughout the relay’s life cycle.
Protection and control functions – base functionality for all relay variants
• The relay shall have non-directional phase overcurrent (50P/51P) and earth-fault protection (50G/50N // 51G/51N) with nine
stages each (three low-set, three high-set and three instantaneous stages). The operation characteristic of the low and high-set
stages shall be settable to either definite time (DT) or inverse definite minimum time (IDMT), supporting various types of inverse
curves, including a user-definable one. The instantaneous stage shall support the peak-to-peak measurement mode enabling
protection fast operation even under primary CT saturation conditions.
• The relay must have six-stage directional phase overcurrent protection (67) with voltage memory and selectable positive and
negative-sequence polarization.
• The relay must have eight-stage directional earth-fault protection (67N) with selectable negative and zero-sequence polarization.
I0 and U0 shall be derived either from the phase currents and voltages or from the measured neutral current and residual voltage.
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• The relay shall have arc protection based on simultaneous detection of current and light. During maintenance work at the
substation, it shall be possible to change the operation criteria to light only via a binary input.
• The relay shall have three-stage negative-sequence overcurrent protection (46) settable between 0.01 and 5 times In and
operation based on selection as definite time (DT) and inverse definite minimum time (IDMT), and IEC and ANSI/IEEE operating
curves.
• To detect phase unbalance caused by a broken conductor, the relay shall have phase discontinuity protection (46PD). For
optimum sensitivity and stability, the operation must be based on the ratio between the positive and negative-sequence current.
• The relay shall have two-stage directional negative-sequence overcurrent protection (67Q).
• The relay shall have comprehensive voltage protection, including at least overvoltage (59), undervoltage (27), positive-sequence
overvoltage(59PS), positive-sequence undervoltage (27PS), negative-sequence overvoltage (59NS) and residual overvoltage
(59G/59N) protection.
• The relay must have 12-stage frequency protection (81) including at least overfrequency, underfrequency and frequency rate-of-
change protection with rate-of-rise or rate-of-fall freely selectable for each stage.
• The relay shall include a six-stage frequency-based load shedding and restoration function (81LSH) for automatic disconnection
and reconnection of non critical loads in network overload situations.
• For overhead line applications, the relay shall have multishot auto-reclose functionality (79) capable of handling one-and-half
breaker scheme.
• The relay shall have circuit breaker failure protection (50BF) for up to three circuit breakers including independent timers for
repeated tripping of the same breaker and backup tripping of the upstream breaker.
• The relay shall have under current protection (37) for detecting feeder disconnection, low-load and loss-of-phase conditions.
• The relay shall have three phase voltage-dependent overcurrent protection (51V) with 2 stages for protecting generators against
short circuit faults occurring close to the generator terminals. The function shall include settable definite time (DT) and inverse
definite minimum time (IDMT) characteristics. The function shall operate when the current exceeds a set value dynamically
calculated based on the measured terminal voltage. It shall also be possible to select either a voltage restrained/voltage slope or
voltage controlled/voltage step characteristic.
• The relay shall include Switch-On-To-Fault (SOTF) logic ensuring a fast trip when the breaker is closed onto a faulted feeder or
bus. The function shall complement the non-directional or directional overcurrent protection functions and accelerate the
operation of the protection.
• The relay shall support both high-impedance (87NHI) and low-impedance (87NLI) restricted earth-fault protection principles for
up to two windings.
• The restricted low-impedance earth-fault protection (87NLI) shall be based on the numerically stabilized differential current
principle and the neutral-current second harmonic shall be used for blocking the function in a transformer inrush situation. No
external stabilizing resistor nor non-linear resistors shall be required. The operating characteristics shall be according to the
definite time.
• The relay shall include three-phase inrush detector function (68HB) with two stages.
• The relay shall include a synchro-check (25) function for circuit breaker closing for three breakers. The function shall ensure that
the voltage, phase angle and frequency across of an open circuit breaker meet the requirements for safe interconnection of two
networks. The function shall include energizing check functionality and support the operation modes dead-line/live-line and
dead-bus/live-bus. To enable circuit breaker closing when reconnecting two asynchronous networks, the function shall consider
the circuit breaker closing delay and the measured slip frequency to ensure that the closing command is given at the right
moment. The function shall include phase-shift compensation for cases where the reference voltage is measured across a power
transformer. In case of a fuse failure it shall be possible to block the energizing check.
• To permit the circuit to operate close to thermal limits, at the same time providing adequate protection, the relay shall have
three-phase thermal protection (49F) for feeders, cables and distribution transformers. The thermal model shall be compliant
with the IEC 60255-149 standard.
• The relay shall support the control of at least 14 primary switching devices out of which at least 3 circuit breakers and 11
disconnectors/earthing switches freely selectable for control & indication or for indication only.
• It shall be possible to freely apply the relay as multi-function controller like bay control unit (BCU) as per the application
requirement.
• When applied as bay control unit (BCU) – it shall have adequate capacity for the inuts and outputs, a LHMI enabling control of
each primary device with in the bay with interlock logic for the station and bay level, supervision, indication and monitoring
functionality with optional auto-reclosing and backup protection.
Thermal protection
• The relay shall include generator thermal overload protection (49M) to protect the generator from overheating.
The generator thermal overload protection shall consider both the true RMS and negative-sequence currents. In case of
unbalanced phase currents, the negative-sequence current must be considered since it causes additional heating. For accurate
calculation of the generator’s different thermal conditions, the relay shall have three time constants for the different running
conditions of the generator, i.e. start-up, nominal speed and standstill.
• The relay shall include two stages of negative-sequence overcurrent protection (46M) settable between 0.01 and 5 times pu.
source for the frequency reference. By using the selectable wide peak-to-peak measuring principle, the overcurrent protection
shall, if required, operate from as low as 2 Hz during start-up or shutdown.
Communication
• The relay must support both IEC 61850 Edition 1 and Edition 2.
• The relay shall support two IP subnetworks assigned to different Ethernet ports.
• The relay must support flexible product naming (FPN) to facilitate the mapping of relay’s IEC 61850 data model to a customer
defined IEC 61850 data model.
• The relay must support, besides IEC 61850, simultaneous communication using one of the following communication protocols:
Modbus® (RTU-ASCII/TCP), IEC 60870-5-103, IEC 60870-5-104 or DNP3 (serial/TCP). With external adapter it shall support
Profibus where needed.
• Relay shall support secure DNP3 TCP/IP and IEC 60870-5-104 based on IEC 62351
• The serial interface shall be offered both with optical and galvanic connections.
• The LHMI must have an Ethernet port (RJ45) for local parametrization and data retrieval.
• The LHMI shall have a USB port for connecting a memory stick. It shall be possible to read the following data from the relay:
disturbance records, fault records, events, load profile, device information, settings and log files. It must be possible to
electrically disconnect the USB port with a setting.
• The relay shall support up to five IEC 61850 (MMS) clients simultaneously.
• For redundant Ethernet communication, the relay shall have either two optical or two galvanic Ethernet network interfaces with
HSR and PRP.
• The relay shall have a third Ethernet port, galvanic or optical, for providing connectivity for any other Ethernet device to the
IEC 61850 station bus. This Ethernet port shall also support IEC 61850-8-1 based remote I/O signals.
• The relay must support IEC 61850 GOOSE messaging and meet the performance requirements for tripping applications (<10 ms)
as defined by the IEC 61850 standard.
• The relay shall support sharing analog values, such as temperature, resistance and tap positions using IEC 61850 GOOSE
messaging.
• The relay must support IEEE 1588 v2 for high-accuracy time synchronization (<4 µs) in Ethernet-based applications. The relay shall
also support the SNTP (Simple Network Time Protocol) and IRIG-B (Inter-Range Instrumentation Group - Time Code Format B)
time synchronization (<4 µs) methods.
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• The relay must support IEC 61850-9-2 LE process bus for sending sampled values of currents and voltages.
• The relay shall be able to receive four full streams (4 currents and 4 voltages) of IEC 61850-9-2 LE and must be able to switch
between the streams based on predefined conditions.
• The relay shall have dedicated point-to-point protection communication for distances up to 50 km (31 miles) with the integrated
optical link, or up to 8 km (5 miles) with a galvanic link using an external modem. The protection communication channel shall
support line differential protection and in addition include a possibility to transfer at least 16 additional binary signals between
the line ends to be used for example with line distance protection scheme communication. In order to take into account future
needs, this interface shall be available in all of the communication modules despite if it is initially needed or not.
Cyber security
• The relay shall support the possibility to define access control for individual users based on different roles.
• The relay must support role-based access control (RBAC) according to IEC 62351-8.
• The relay shall support individual user accounts for up to 50 users.
• The relay shall support centralized administration of users and roles using either Active Directory (AD) or Lightweight Directory
Access Protocol (LDAP) servers.
• The relay shall support security log with up to 2048 events stored in a non-volatile memory.
• The relay shall support centralized security logging using the Syslog protocol.
• The relay must support the possibility to update the X.509 certificate used for secure communication and device identification.
- Automatically using Public Key Infrastucture (PKI)
- Manually using relay configuration tool
• It shall be possible to disable unused Ethernet and serial communication ports.
• It shall be possible to define the supported services for each Ethernet subnetwork.
• The relay shall be in line with the relevant parts of NERC CIP, IEEE 1686 and IEC 62351
• The relay shall offer an Ethernet filter and Ethernet rate limiter functionality to limit the Ethernet/TCP network traffic in case of
e.g. Denial of Service attack.
Additional information
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