NR Electric Co., Ltd.

PCS-902
Line Distance Protection

Integrated Secondary
System
The PCS-902 provides comprehensive protection and control The PCS-902 is compatible with IEC 61850 station bus and
solutions for transmission lines with high-speed sub-cycle process bus applications. It supports IEC 61850-8-1 MMS,
distance element. The PCS-902 is intended for application GOOSE and IEC 61850-9-2 Sampling Value. The RJ-45
on overhead lines and underground cables with diverse faceplate port is provided for testing and setting, allowing for
voltage levels. These include series compensated, double- smoother commissioning and maintenance.
circuit, heavily loaded, weak in feed (WI), short and long
lines. It can meet the requirements of single-pole or three-
pole tripping; it also provides single and/or three-pole auto-
reclosing functions. The PCS-902 is suitable for single and dual-
breaker applications, providing optional dual CT inputs, dual
Functions
breaker failure protections, dual breaker auto-reclosing and dual Protection and Control
synchro-checks. Additionally, the relay integrates the remote/ • Five zone phase-to-phase distance protection (21P)
local control of circuit breaker, disconnector and earth switch. Directional, load encroachment, power swing blocking and
unique low-voltage elements are provided for phase-to-
The PCS-902 employs a wide range of innovative patented phase distance protection.
technologies, such as DPFC (Deviation Power Frequency
Component) distance protection and unique power swing • One zone phase-to-phase distance protection for pilot
blocking logic. Thus, guaranteeing accurate and reliable scheme (85/21P)
operations. The relay provides an independent zone for pilot scheme of
PUTT, POTT, Blocking, Unblocking, DTT & Zone Extension.
The scheme integrates current reversal logic, weak-infeed
echo and open breaker echo.

• Five zone phase-to-ground distance protection (21G)

The reactance characteristic, directional, load encroachment,
power swing blocking and unique low-voltage elements are
provided for phase-to-ground distance protection.

• One zone phase-to-ground distance protection for pilot

scheme (85/21G)
The relay provides an independent zone for pilot scheme of
PUTT, POTT, Blocking, Unblocking, DTT & Zone Extension.
The scheme integrates current reversal logic, weak-infeed
echo and open breaker echo.

Read more on the web

www.nrelect.com
 NR Electric Co., Ltd.

• High-speed DPFC distance protection (21D) • Switch-onto-fault (SOTF) logic

Innovative Deviation of Power Frequency Component Switch-onto-fault logic is used to clear the faults during
(DPFC) distance protection quickly clears faults in a sub- manual closing and auto-reclosing.
cycle. DPFC is immune to the load fluctuation, weak-infeed
and power swing. • Unique power swing blocking logic (68)
The power swing blocking logic prevents mal-operations
• Pilot scheme of directional earth-fault protection (DEF) during external faults in power swing situations. It quickly
The relay includes directional zero sequence comparison clears the internal faults in power swing scenarios.
element for earth faults. The pilot scheme integrates current
reversal logic, weak-infeed echo and open breaker echo. • Broken conductor protection (46BC)
The ratio of negative to positive sequence current (Ι2/Ι1) is
• Four stage phase overcurrent protection (67P, 50/51P) adopted to detect the broken conductor.
Selectable time characteristics (definite-time or inverse-time)
and directional elements (forward, reverse or non-directional) • Dead zone protection (50DZ)
are provided. A harmonic blocking function is integrated to It is provided to clear the dead zone faults between CT and
restrain each stage independently. breaker.

• Four stage neutral overcurrent protection (67N, 50/51N) • Thermal overload protection (49)
Selectable time characteristics (definite-time or inverse-time) Thermal accumulation using thermal models is implemented
and directional elements (forward, reverse or non-directional) for overload protection. Two stages for alarm and two stages
are provided. A harmonic blocking function is integrated to for tripping are provided.
restrain each stage independently.
• Pole discrepancy protection
• Breaker failure protection for one or two breakers (50BF) It is used to prevent overheating of generators/motors due to
Breaker failure protection can be applied to single-breaker pole discrepancy.
and dual-breaker applications.
• Single and/or three-pole auto-reclosing (single-breaker or
• Stub overcurrent protection (50S) dual-breaker ). (79)
Stub protection is introduced to protect the T-zone in one- Single/three pole auto-reclosing is provided for single- and
and-a-half breaker and ring breaker arrangements. dual-breaker applications. Priority logic is integrated for the
applications of one-and-a-half breaker and ring breaker
• Two sta ge u nder v olt age pr otec tion and tw o s t a g e arrangements.
overvoltage protection (27/59)
Phase under/over voltage protection and negative/zero • Remote/local control
sequence overvoltage protection are provided. The control of circuit breaker, disconnector and earth switch
can be implemented via communication, LCD menu and
• Four stage underfrequency protection and four stage binary inputs. User programmable interlocking logics are
overfrequency protection (81) available by PCS-Explorer.
Frequency is calculated by using the positive sequence
voltage. The df/dt element is provided for the supervision of • Synchronism check (25)
underfrequency protection. Synchro-check can be used for auto-reclosing and manual
closing for single-breaker and dual-breaker.
• Phase overcurrent protection during VT failure (51P VT)
Independent phase overcurrent protection is automatically • Voltage and current drift auto adjustment.
enabled to substitute the phase-to-phase distance protection, The relay continually and automatically traces the voltage
which is blocked during VT failure. and current drifts and adjusts the zero point to acquire
accurate measurements.
• Neutral overcurrent protection during VT failure (51N VT)
Independent neutral overcurrent protection is automatically • Frequency tracking.
enabled to substitute the phase-to-ground distance Frequency tracking is provided to accommodate the
protection, which is blocked during VT failure. frequency shifts in power system.

Read more on the web

www.nrelect.com
 NR Electric Co., Ltd.

Monitoring and Measurement Features

• Energy measurement (active and reactive energies for
import and export)
• The unique DPFC protection principle, firstly introduced by
• CT failure supervision NR Electric, employs superimposed increscent quantities as
• VT failure supervision protection criteria, which provides high speed fault clearance
and is immune to power swing and load fluctuation.
• Fault phase selection
• Fault Locator with parallel-line compensation
• A unique two-out-two logic is adopted in hardware design to
• Self diagnostic improve security. Coordinating with the redundant scheme,
• Event recorder including 1024 change-of-binary-input events, this solution improves both security and dependability of
1024 supervision events, 256 control logs and 1024 device protection system. The two independent data acquisition
logs paths are provided to prevent mal-operation caused by

Integrated Secondary
component failure. One works as a fault detector and the
• Disturbance recorder including 32 disturbance records with
other is designed for protection logic. Tripping outputs are
waveforms (The format is compatible with COMTRADE.)

System
supervised by both data acquisition paths.
• Pilot communication channel supervision
• System frequency supervision • Self-adaptive floating threshold which only reflects deviation
• Clock synchronization using IRIG-B, SNTP, PPS (Pulse-Per- of power frequency components improves the sensitivity and
Second) and PPM (Pulse-Per-Minute) reliability during load fluctuation and system disturbance.

• The unique power swing blocking logic can properly

Communication
supervise the distance protection during power swing, which
• Optional single- or dual- pilot channels (fiber optic),
ensures the distance protection will operate correctly for
complying with G.703 and C37.94
internal faults during power swing, and prevents distance
• Up to four 10Base-T/100Base-TX copper Ethernet ports protection from mal-operation during power swing.
using IEC 61850, DNP3.0 or IEC 60870-5-103 over TCP/IP
• Up to two 100Base-FX optical Ethernet ports using IEC • Fast clearance of the faults within the protected zone is
61850, DNP3.0 or IEC 60870-5-103 over TCP/IP ( Sharing achieved by this relay. The typical operating time is less than
two copper Ethernet ports) 10 ms for close-up faults, less than 15ms for medium-zone
faults and less than 25ms for remote-end faults.
• Two RS-485 serial ports using IEC 60870-5-103
• One RS-485 serial port for clock synchronization • Comprehensive flexibility is achieved via modular hardware
• Optional Sampling value and GOOSE communication design, scalable function library, programmable logics,
module with six optical Ethernet ports using IEC 61850-9-2 configurable I/Os and definable LEDs. It allows users to
and IEC 61850-8-1 GOOSE create customized schemes for the specific projects. 2 fixed
LEDs and 18 definable 3-color LEDs (Green/Yellow/Red) are
User Interface provided.

• HMI interface with large-size LCD and 9-button keypad on

• The relay is fully compatible with IEC 61850, including
the front panel
station bus communication and process bus communication.
• One front RJ-45 port for testing and setting It provides up to 6 Ethernet ports for process bus with IEC
• One RS-232 or RS-485 rear port for printer 61850-9-2 Sampling Value and IEC 61850-8-1 GOOSE, as
• Language selection – English + selected language well as up to 4 Ethernet ports for station bus with IEC 61850-
8-1 MMS.
• Assistant software - PCS-Explorer

• Powerful disturbance recording function is integrated in the

relay for post-fault analysis. Up to 64 disturbance records
can be stored in non-volatile memory. Each report includes
250-cycle to 500-cycle waveform records with 12-cycle pre-
fault waveform.

Read more on the web

www.nrelect.com