Protection and Control Solutions

Protection & Control Solutions Complied with IEC61850

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Protection for Power Utility

Transmission Line Protection

Capacitor Protection

Reactor Protection

Transformer Protection

Busbar Protection

Circuit Breaker Protection

Feeder Protection & Control

HVDC Control & Protection

Protection & Control of FACTS

Wide Area Protection

Protection for Power Plant

Generator-Transformer Unit Protection

Generator Protection

Protection for Generating Station

Protection for Auxiliary Power

Motor Control

Protection for Industries

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Metal and Mining

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Oil and Petrochemical

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Transportation

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Commercial Buildings

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Electronics

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Government & Military

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Protection for Power Utility

NR protection solutions for power utility represent a true
breakthrough in overall service by providing complete
protection & control schemes, high-performance product series
and professional site commissioning required for substation.

With innovative technologies and products based on years of operational

experiences, NR provides protection solutions for substation with voltage levels
up to 1000kV.
NRs protection & control devices are fully compatible with IEC 61850 standard
protocol, and can be used in conventional substations, smart substations and
retrofit substation.

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Transmission Line Protection

NRs PCS-900 series fast and reliable protection & control devices are designed
for applications in HVAC transmission lines with voltage levels up to 1000kV,
including directional comparison relay, distance relay, current differential relay,
stub differential relay, and voltage relay with transfer trip supervision. The PCS
series products adopt advanced UAPC multi-processor platform which is fully
complied with IEC 61850 station bus & GOOSE process bus and supports both
traditional electro-magnetic CT/VT and electronic CT/VT.

- Distance Protection
The PCS-902 numerical line distance protection provides full-scheme
protection functions hosted on patented UAPC platform. It introduces an
extensive functional library, programmable logic and configurable I/O intended
for applications in overhead lines and underground cables of all voltage levels,
including series compensated lines, double-circuit lines, heavily loaded lines,
weak infeed (WI), short lines and extremely long lines. An extra communication
port is optional to provide dual protection channels for three-terminal application
and redundant application.

- Current Differential Protection

The PCS-931 current differential protection integrates phase-segregated
current differential protection, zero sequence current differential protection,
stepped distance protection, current protection and voltage protection with
single and/or three pole tripping and auto-reclosing. The PCS-931 is suitable
for overhead lines and underground cables of all voltage levels, including
series compensated lines, double-circuit lines, three-terminal lines, heavily
loaded lines, weak infeed (WI), short lines and extremely long lines. An extra
communication port is optional to provide dual protection channels for threeFigure 1. Connections between PCS-931

terminal application and redundant application.

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Capacitor Protection
NR's RCS-9631 relay can provide simplified settings for shunt capacitor banks,
reactors, and circuit breakers in one-and-a-half breaker and ring breaker
applications. It provides sensitive voltage and current unbalance protection with
drift auto adjustment.

Reactor Protection
NR's numerical reactor protection relay RCS-917 is suitable for the protection of
UHV shunt reactors by offering mechanical protection and electrical protection
such as percentage differential protection, DPFC differential protection and
overcurrent protection.
The RCS-9647 reactor management relay is an integrated current measuring
multi-function relay designed to be used for the protection of shunt reactors at
low voltage side of transformer.

Transformer Protection
The PCS-978 is a numerical transformer protection hosted on advanced UAPC
multi-processor platform for various transformer applications, including twowinding transformers, three-winding transformers, auto-transformers and splitphase transformers.
The device introduces current differential element and restricted earth fault
element as main protection for transformers, and integrates over-excitation
protection, overcurrent protection, voltage protection, frequency protection
and mechanical protection as backup protection. Up to six three-phase current
inputs are available in the current differential protection. The extensive functional
library, programmable logic and configurable I/O are integrated to meet flexible
applications. The unique current differential protection includes the unrestraint
current differential element, percentage current differential element and DPFC
differential element.

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Busbar Protection
The PCS-915 comprehensive and scalable busbar protections are hosted on
advanced UAPC multi-processor platform, providing busbar protection and
breaker failure protection for single busbar, double busbar, double busbar with
or without transfer bus, double busbar with bus sections and one-and-a-half
breaker application, etc.
The device provides fast and secure low impedance busbar protection with
sub-cycle tripping time. Check zone and discrimination zone of differential
protection are available in the PCS-915 as a choice. It incorporates advanced
and patented features to improve its sensitivity and security, such as breaker
failure protection for all bays including bus coupler and bus section, innovative
DPFC (Deviation Power Frequency Component) current differential protection
and unique CT saturation detection method.
The PCS-915 adopts scalable and expandable architecture to protect up to
36 bays. The scheme is composed of one Master Unit(MU) and several Slave
Units(SU) which are connected through fiber optic communication. The PCSFigure 2. Master unit and slave units

915 is fully compatible with IEC-61850 station bus & GOOSE bus and supporting
both traditional electro-magnetic CT/VT and electronic CT/VT.

Circuit Breaker Protection

To enhance the operation of circuit breakers in a substation, NR offers complete
breaker failure protection RCS-921 and RCS-923. The RCS-921 breaker failure
relay with auto-reclosing function is designed to be used for the protection
of circuit breakers in one-and-a-half breaker and ring breaker applications.
The RCS-923 breaker failure protection with auto-reclosing and overcurrent
protection functions can be used to protect circuit breaker, bus coupler or bus
section. It can initiate breaker failure protection or directly trip the adjacent
breakers.

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Feeder Protection & Control

NR offers PCS/RCS-9600 series intelligent protection, control and monitoring
devices to enhance power distribution capability. It provides complete protection
and management functions for feeders used on utility, industrial and commercial
electrical systems to achieve higher work efficient.

- Directional Overcurrent Protection

The PCS-9611 directional overcurrent protection provides protection, control,
monitoring and measurement of distribution feeders, transformers and
transmission lines. It can also be used as interlocking overcurrent (ILOC)
protection for distribution busbars.

- Overcurrent Protection
The PCS-9691E is a numerical relay with overcurrent protection and autoreclosing designed for the selective short-circuit protection, control and
monitoring of feeders, capacitor banks, reactors or the motors etc. It is suitable
for

directly-grounded,

impedance-grounded,

Peterson-coil-grounded

or

ungrounded system.

HVDC Control & Protection

The self-developed PCS-9500 provides complete control and protection
solutions for all engineering needs of HVDC transmission projects. It is designed
for used in long-distance UHVDC transmission up to 800kV and back-to-back
converter station of all voltage levels.

Protection & Control of FACTS

The Flexible AC Transmission System(FACTS) is a power electronics-based
system meant to enhance power flow control and increase power transfer
capability of the network. NRs PCS-9500 series VSC-HVDC products are
designed for protection and control of FACTS using voltage sourced converters
(VSC) technology. It can be applied to two-level converters, three-level
converters and modular multi-level converters (MMC).

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System Protection Scheme (SPS)

NR's provides system protection scheme(SPS) to save the system from a
blackout which may appear after the clearance of a severe disturbance in a
stressed operation situation or after an extreme load growth.

- Power Stability Control System (PSCS TM)

NR's unique Power Stability Control System(PSCS) is used to implement loadshedding and generator shutting-down to guarantee the stability of power grids
Figure 3. Power Stability Control System(PSCS)

and effectively avoid severe large area outage. It takes actions on cascading
stage as early as possible to reduce the loss of load.
- RCS-992 Stability Controller
The RCS-992 stability controller is composed of one Master Unit(MU) and up
to 6 Slave Units(SU). Communications between master unit and slave units
are via dedicated point-to-point optic fibers using IEC60870-5-103 or IEC61850
communication protocol. Communications between stability controllers can be
realized by dedicated optic fibers or SDH networks.

- RCS-993 Out-of-Step Relay

The out-of-step relay RCS-993 can effectively prevent system collapse by
tripping the circuit breakers to separate the power system into several smaller
islands, shutting down generators, shedding loads and/or starting synchronizer
to prepare for the system synchronism after system islanding.

- RCS-994 Frequency & Voltage Relay

The RCS-994 Frequency & Voltage Relay can provide emergency voltage and
frequency control by starting up or shutting down generators to balance the
generations and loads.

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Protection for Power Plant

NR provides protection and control solutions for power plant
with unit capacity up to 1000MW, covering electrical protection
for generators and auxiliary power, mechanism protection for
transformers and thermal control for rotors.

Generator-Transformer Unit Protection

- Generator-Transformer Unit Protection
The PCS/RCS-985A/B/C microprocessor based generator-transformer unit protection
provides comprehensive protection, control and monitoring for small to large generators,
generator-transformer units with capacity up to 1000MW, main transformers, auxiliary
transformers, excitation transformers and exciters. It integrates innovative patented
technologies, including stator inter-turn fault protection, stator ground protection, rotor
ground protection and loss of excitation protection.

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For a large scale generator-transformer unit, two sets of PCS/RCS985A/B/C can be used to duplicate main protection, abnormal operation
condition protection and backup protection. Operating circuits are
installed on a separated panel.

- Transformer Auxiliary Relay

The PCS-974 transformer auxiliary relay provides mechanical
protection, pole disagreement protection and breaker failure initiation
for transformers. Mechanical signal can be configured as thermal, gas,
oil temperature, winding temperature, pressure, oil level and so on.
Figure 4 shows the typical protection configuration of PCS/RCS-985A/
BC. This typical application consists of three protection panels. panel A
and panel B comprise one set of PCS/RCS-985A/B/C each, and these
Figure 4. Typical application of PCS/RCS-985A/B/C

two protection devices uses different CT groups respectively. Panel C

is composed of RCS-974 Transformer Auxiliary Relay. This protection
scheme is also applicable when the exciter is replaced by an excitation
transformer.

Generator Protection
The PCS/RCS-985G is a generator protection designed for the protection
of sophisticated generators, including turbo-generator, hydro-generators,
gas turbine generators and pumped-storage generators. It integrates
protection, control and monitoring functions in one package, such as
differential protection, distance protection, mechanical protection, circuit
breaker failure initiation and metering.
Figure 5 shows the typical protection configuration of PCS/RCS-985G.
Panels A and panel B comprise of one set of PCS/RCS-985G each,
Figure 5. Typical application of PCS/RCS-985G

and these two protection devices use different CT groups respectively.

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One set of RCS-974AG is installed in Panel C to provide mechanical protection

of generator and exciting transformer. Pole disagreement protection, circuit
breaker failure initiation and circuit breaker operation relay set are optional
based on customers' requests.

Protection for Generating Station

NR offers PCS/RCS-900 series high integrated protection and control devices
to generating station in power plant to maintain the best quality of service
available and communication capabilities.

Protection for Auxiliary Power

The PCS/RCS-9600 series is an object-oriented product designed for auxiliary
power system with capacity up to 1000MW. It is available along with a wide
integration of protection, measurement, monitoring and control functions. It
adopts GPS time-synchronization which is compatible with second pulse,
minute pulse and IRIG-B.
The protection module is independent of other modules both in hardware and
software. Therefore, the protection function does not rely on the communication
and can operate normally even when the communication link is cut-off.

Motor Control
The PCS-9690 series digital protection and control devices are designed
for PCC and MCC system from 380V to 600V (phase to phase), including
protection, control, monitoring and communication. This series can be used as
the protection and control for motors, feeders, bus sections and circuit breakers.
The PCS-9691 is used in the power control center of a low voltage auxiliary
power system, while PCS-9692 is applied to the motor control centre. The
PCS-9690 series is reliable and easy for maintenance. It is flexible to choose
software and hardware of the device based on customers requirements.

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Protection for Industries

NR has released innovative protection and control solutions
for large industrial enterprises of all voltage levels in the
sphere of petrochemicals, coal, iron and steel, metallurgy
and electrified railway.

Metals and Mining

NR's RCS-9600CN series products are designed for applications in industrial field. It
highly integrates protection, control and monitoring functions in one rack, providing
reliable safeguarding for power systems in industrial system. Communications between
protection rooms and control rooms are realized by industrial fieldbus or Ethernet
network.
The PCS-9691E is a numerical relay with overcurrent protection and auto-reclosing
functions. It can provide fast and selective short-circuit protection, control and monitoring

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for feeders, capacitor banks, reactors and motors in 380V power system
of industrial enterprises.
The PCS-9655 Fast Transfer Device provides optimum safeguarding
of energy supply and stable system operation. The fast transfer device
ensures the continued supply to the consumer through automatic
transferring to a stand-by feeder to avoid expensive stoppage time.

Oil and Petrochemical

NRs highly reliable, economical and flexible solutions are suitable for
severe conditions of oil and petrochemical industries, and are able to
integrate into any existing systems.
The RCS-9600CS series products provide protection, control and
monitoring of expensive equipments and increase the reliability of primary
instruments. It also integrates automation functions such as disturbance
fault recording, to increase the reliability and safety of control and
monitoring system.

Transportation
- Electrified Railway
NRs PCS-9680 series devices feature the integration of protection,
monitoring and disturbance recording functions in one rack, providing
safeguard and guarantee of economical operation for the entire electrified
railway system.
The PCS-9680 series covers transformer protection, feeder protection,
capacitor protection and automatic transfer device. It introduces
harmonics blocking and self-adapting harmonics restraint functions
to solve the impact and harmonics caused by loads in electric traction
feeding system.

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- Metro Railway
As an important part of metro power supply system, the safe operation of
110kV/35kV substation will affect the stability of the entire metro system.
The RCS-9600CS series are well proven products that can provide
protection and monitoring for transmission line, feeders, and transformers
in the 110kV/35kV substation.

Commercial Buildings
NRs power protection, process control and automation products can
guarantee the uninterrupted supply during a power outage for different
mission-critical applications. NRs customized system solutions and
complete products series provide highly reliable safeguarding of business
and public entities and have been well proven in many world famous
projects, such as 2008 Beijing Olympic Stadiums and 2010 World Expo
in Shanghai.

Electronics
NR can provide reliable power protection, communications and
management systems to ensure the uninterrupted power supply for
electronic manufacturers. NRs innovative protection devices and
fast transfer devices can quickly detect faults and trip the faulty line to
prevent severe disaster. The fast transfer devices minimize production
interruptions to save money.

Government & Military

As a trusted relay manufacturer, NR provides protection, power
management system, metering, communication and time synchronization
devices to many missioncritical national and military projects.

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