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G U I D E F O R M S P EC I F I C AT I O N

Feeder Protection and Control REF615

Numerical feeder protection
in medium voltage networks
The relay is intended for protection, control, measurement and supervision
of the outgoing or incoming feeder in medium voltage networks.

Mechanical and construction details Protection functions

• The relay shall have compact dimensions not • The relay shall have directional and non-directional
exceeding 4U in height. The depth of the relay phase overcurrent and earth-fault protection
shall, without any additional raising frame, not (50/51/67) with three stages (low-set, high-set
exceed 160 mm when flush mounted so as not to and non-directional instantaneous stage), definite
foul with other equipment mounted inside the time (DT) and inverse definite minimum time
cabinet. The weight of the relay must not exceed (IDMT) characteristics, and IEC and ANSI/IEEE
5 kgs to permit use of optimized sheet metal operating curves.
thickness in construction of panels. • The relay must have three-stage directional phase
• The relay shall support flush, semi-flush, rack and overcurrent protection (67) with voltage memory
wall mounting options. and positive and negative-sequence polarization.
• As flush mounted, the relay shall meet the IP54 • The relay must have three-stage directional earth-
ingress protection requirements on the front side fault protection (67N) with selectable negative and
and IP20 on the rear side and connection zero-sequence polarization. I0 and U0 shall be
terminals. derived either from the phase voltages and
• To facilitate quick unit replacement, the relay currents or from the measured neutral current and
design shall be of draw-out type with secure residual voltage.
current transformer (CT) shorting. It shall be • In compensated, unearthed and high-resistance
possible to quickly replace a faulty unit with a earthed networks, the relay shall be able to detect
spare without disturbing the majority of the transient, intermittent and continuous earth
wiring. The mean time to repair (MTTR) shall be faults. The fault direction determination criterion
less than 30 minutes. of the protection function must include multiple
• To prevent unauthorized detachment of the relay harmonics.
plug-in unit, the relay shall be provided with an • In compensated, unearthed and high-resistance
integrated seal. earthed networks, the relay shall have admittance
• The relay shall have a graphical display with at (21YN/67YN) and wattmetric-based (32N) earth-
least 7 rows of characters and up to 20 characters fault protection.
per row. • 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 include phase unbalance, voltage
and frequency protection.
• The relay shall include a fault-locating algorithm to
calculate the fault location with +/- 2.5 % accuracy
for phase-to-phase and phase-to-earth faults in
effectively and low-resistance earthed networks.
• For overhead line applications, the relay shall have
an optional multishot auto-reclose function.
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Inputs and outputs Measurements, alarms and reporting

• The relay shall have 8 binary inputs and 9 binary • The relay shall have three-phase current and
outputs and all of them freely configurable. voltage measurement (fundamental or RMS-based
Optionally, it must be possible to add 8 more as selectable options) with an accuracy of ±0.5%
binary inputs and 1 more binary output. and zero, negative and positive-sequence current
• To enable direct tripping of the circuit breaker, the and voltage measurement with an accuracy of ±1%
relay must have 2 double-pole power output relays within the range of ±2Hz of the nominal frequency.
with integrated trip-circuit supervision (TCS). The • To collect sequence-of-events (SoE) information,
two power output relays shall be rated to make the relay must include a non-volatile memory with
and carry 30 A for 0.5 s with a breaking capacity of a capacity of storing at least 1024 event codes
≥1 A (L/R<40 ms). with associated time stamps.
• To enable fast direct tripping of the circuit breaker, • The relay must support the storage of at least 128
the relay must have 3 optional high-speed binary fault records in the relay’s non-volatile memory.
outputs with an operate time of ≤ 1 ms. The binary • The fault record values must at least include phase
output contacts shall be rated to make and carry currents, phase voltages, zero, negative and
30 A for 0.5 s with a breaking capacity of ≥1 A (L/ positive-sequence currents and voltages, and the
R<40 ms). active setting group.
• The threshold voltage of the relay’s binary inputs • The relay shall have a disturbance recorder
shall be settable to 16...176 V DC. supporting a sampling frequency of 32 samples
• The binary inputs of the relay shall, when per cycle and featuring up to 12 analog and 64
energized, utilize a higher inrush current to binary signal channels.
facilitate the breaking of possible dirt or sulfide • The relay’s disturbance recorder shall support not
from the surface of the activating contact. less than 6 three-second recordings at 32 samples
• The relay shall offer two optional RTD inputs and per cycle for 12 analog channels and 64 binary
one mA input. channels.
• The phase current inputs and the residual current • The relays shall support up to 100 disturbance
input of the relay shall be rated 1/5 A. The selection recordings.
of 1 A or 5 A shall be software-based. • The relay must have a load profile recorder for
• For applications requiring sensitive earth-fault phase currents and voltages supporting up to 12
protection, the relay shall offer an optional 0.2/1 A selectable load quantities and more than 1 year of
residual current input. The selection of 0.2 A or 1 A recording length. The load profile recorder output
shall be software-based. shall be in COMTRADE format.
• The relay must offer optional current and voltage
sensor inputs and support the use of combined
current and voltage sensors connected with one
connector per phase. The current sensor inputs
must facilitate the usage of sensors within the
nominal range of 40...1250 A without any external
adaptors.
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Communication Engineering and configurability

• The relay must support IEC 61850 Edition 1 and • The relay must have 6 independent settings
Edition 2. groups for the relevant protection settings (start
• The relay must support, besides IEC 61850, value and operate time). It must be possible to
simultaneous communication using one of the change protection setting values from one setting
following communication protocols: Modbus® group to another in less than 20 ms from the
(RTU-ASCII/TCP), IEC 60870-5-103 or DNP3 (serial/ binary input activation.
TCP). • The relay must have a web browser-based human-
• The relay must have an Ethernet port (RJ45) on the machine interface (WHMI) with secured
front for local parametrization and data retrieval. communication (TLS) and shall provide the
• The relay shall support up to five IEC 61850 (MMS) following functions:
clients simultaneously. -- Programmable LEDs and event lists
• The relay must have two fiber-optic Ethernet ports -- System supervision
with HSR and PRP-1. -- Parameter settings
• The relay shall have a third Ethernet port for -- Measurement display
providing connectivity of any other Ethernet -- Disturbance records
device to an IEC 61850 station bus inside a -- Phasor diagram
switchgear bay. -- Single-line diagram (SLD)
• The relay must support IEC 61850 GOOSE -- Importing and exporting of parameters
messaging and meet the performance • When a protection function is disabled or removed
requirements for tripping applications (<10 ms) as from the configuration, neither the relay nor the
defined by the IEC 61850 standard. configuration tool shall show the function-related
• The relay shall support sharing analog values, such settings.
as temperature, resistance and tap positions using • The relay HMI and configuration tool shall have
IEC 61850 GOOSE messaging. multilingual support.
• The relay must support IEEE 1588 v2 for high- • The relay HMI and configuration tool shall support
accuracy time synchronization (< 4 µs) in Ethernet- both IEC and ANSI protection function codes.
based applications. The relay shall also support the • The relay shall have at least 11 freely configurable
SNTP (Simple Network Time Protocol) and IRIG-B and programmable two-color LEDs.
(Inter-Range Instrumentation Group - Time Code • The relay must have at least 10 user-configurable
Format B) time synchronization methods. local HMI views including measurements and SLDs.
• The relay must support IEC 61850-9-2LE with IEEE • The relay shall have a graphical configuration tool
1588 v2 for accurate time synchronization. for the complete relay application including multi-
level logic programming support, timers and flip-
flops.
• The relay configuration tool must include online
visualization of the relay application state.
• It must be possible to keep the relay configuration
tool up-to-date using an online update
functionality.
 • The relay configuration tool shall support viewing Additional information
of relay events, fault records and visualization of For more information, please contact your local ABB
disturbance recordings. representative or visit our website at:
• The relay configuration tool must include the www.abb.com/substationautomation
complete relay documentation including operation www.abb.com/mediumvoltage
and technical details.
• The relay configuration tool must include
functionality for comparing the archived
configuration to the configuration in the relay.
• The relay configuration tool must allow
configuration of IEC 61850 vertical and horizontal
communication including GOOSE and sampled
values.
• The relay configuration tool must support
importing and exporting of valid IEC 61850 files
(ICD, CID, SCD, IID).
• The relay configuration tool must be compatible
with earlier relay versions.

Type tests and other compliance requirements

• The relay shall have an operating temperature
range of -25 … +55⁰C and transport/storage
temperature range of -40...+85⁰C.
• The relay must fulfill the mechanical test
requirements according to IEC 60255-21-1, -2 and
-3, Class 2 for vibration, shock, bump and seismic
compliance.
• The relay’s maximum DC auxiliary power
consumption shall be less than 20 W (all inputs
activated and over the full supply range).
• The relay must have an IEC 61850 Edition 2
certificate from an accredited Level A testing
laboratory.
• The relay must fulfill the electromagnetic
compatibility (EMC) test requirements according
to IEC 60255-26.
• The relay must be tested according to the
requirements of the IEC or an equivalent standard.

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