CYME

Power Engineering Software and Solutions

Protective Device Analysis

Verify and enhance your power system’s

protection with CYME’s Protective Device
Analysis.
The Protective Device The right selection of protective
devices and their proper
Analysis module is an sizing are important issues for
indispensable tool to engineers desiring to reduce
the impact caused by any short-
help power engineers circuit on the network and to
effectively address
minimize equipment failures.
protection issues by CYME’s Protective Device
Analysis module provides
analyzing time-current engineers with a wide range
curves. of tools to efficiently and
accurately design and validate
With an extensive library the coordination scheme of their
power system.
of over 15000 protective
Time over current plots are
devices, an intuitive generated within the user-
graphical plot and a friendly interface of CYME,
broad range of tools and which offers:
• Inspection of the proper
coordination for motor
starting, transformer inrush
and cable damage
• Tools to calculate precisely
the time and current margins
between curves
• Modification of any setting
to visualize the change
interactively on-screen
• Customizable display options
for curve colors, tags and
other grid options
• Export function to easily
include time-current plots in
reports
Not only does CYME provide
the useful tools listed above to
make any study simple, it also
offers advanced analyses to
assist engineers in examining
the coordination and protection
range of the devices on the
network more closely.

analyses, planning and • Log-log plot to display time-

current curves of protective
validating protection devices such as fuses, relays,
schemes has never been circuit breakers and reclosers
easier with the CYME • Library containing more than
100 000 curves from North
Power System Analysis American, European and Asian
Software. manufacturers
• Online update of the library of
curves
Protective Network Protection Analysis
The Network Protection analysis
can be used to verify the
Device Analysis coordination, the protective
reach and the loading of all
protective devices in a network.
Main capabilities include:
Verify and enhance your
• Verify the coordination
power system’s protection between successive pairs of
with CYME’s Protective devices according to user-
Minimum Fault Analysis
The Minimum Fault analysis
Sequence of Operation
The Sequence of Operation
is offered to assist engineers analysis evaluates the impact of
in the verification of whether
the protective devices can
a fault on the network to provide
the sequence of protective
adequately detect and clear the device operations triggered.
minimum faults seen in their
Main capabilities include:
respective protection zone.
• User-defined fault location
A detailed report is provided
to list all areas that are Simulation of any fault type
inadequately protected. Those
•

Device Analysis. defined criteria • Calculation of the fault current

areas are also color-coded on
the one-line diagram for easier and opening time of each
• Examine whether a device
visualization. protective device while taking
operates for all faults in its
into account the state of the
protection zone within a user-
network at each operation
defined maximum permitted
operating time • Take into account device
settings, including delays and
• Compare the current through
reset times
each device to a user-
defined maximum permitted • Tracing of the protective
continuous load current devices triggered in the one-
line diagram
• Verify if cables are protected
by a device on all its length • Tabular report listing the
sequence of devices triggered,
• Fuse clearing or fuse saving
the opening time and fault
option
current detected at each
• Study both primary and operation
secondary protective devices
• Specialized report and
indication on one-line
diagram to highlight curve
intersections, reach and
loading problems

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