Protection Automation Control

PCS-921
Breaker Failure Relay

The PCS-921 numerical relay provides protection for circuit tracking is used to minimize the sampling error caused by
breakers, which includes breaker failure protection, pole system frequency fluctuation. The PCS-921 relay adopts the
discrepancy protection, dead zone protection, phase/ negative advanced multi-processor platform, providing the interfaces to
sequence overcurrent protection, earth-fault protection, station bus and process bu s respectively and supporting
overvoltage protection, undervoltage protection, frequency IEC 61850-8-1 MMS, GOOSE and IEC 61850-9-2 Sampling
protection, single and/or three-pole auto-reclosing and Value. In addition, the RJ-45 faceplate port serves for testing
synchronism check functions. The PCS-921 relay employs the and setting in effort to make commissioning and maintenance
programmable logic, configurable I/Os and definable 3-color easier.
LEDs to provide flexibility for specific applications. Frequency

Bus1

PCS-921
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Line1 50BF 59P 59Q 59G 27P

50/51Q 81 62PD 50/51G 50/51P

50DZ 25 79
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Line2

52

Bus 2

Figure 1 PCS-921 Functional Block Diagram

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• Synchronism check (25)

Functions The criteria can be set as frequency difference, voltage
Protection and Control difference, and phase angle difference. Hence, the checking
• Breaker failure protection (50BF) condition can be selected as live-bus to dead-line, dead-bus
Re-tripping and adjacent breaker tripping will be executed if the to live-line or dead-bus to dead-line.
internal/external tripping command is received and the overcurrent
element does not drop off. To improve the sensitivity of generator/ • Single and/or three-pole auto-reclosing (79)
transformer protection, the phase overcurrent, neutral and Up to 4 shots can be selected for single-/three- pole auto-reclosing.
negative-sequence overcurrent elements are provided.
• Voltage and current drift auto adjustment
• Pole discrepancy protection (62PD) The relay continuously and automatically traces voltage and
Pole discrepancy is detected by breaker auxiliary contacts. current drifts and adjusts the zero point.
Furthermore, asymmetrical current element is selected as an
additional criteria. • Frequency tracking
Frequency tracking is provided to accommodate the frequency
• Dead zone protection (50DZ) shift in the power system.
The adjacent breakers are tripped if a fault between CT
and breaker (dead zone) is detected via the initiating binary Monitoring and Measurement
input from external protection, breaker auxiliary contacts and

Circuit Breaker
• VT circuit supervision (VTS)

Protection
overcurrent element.
• CT circuit supervision (CTS)
• Four-stage phase overcurrent protection (50/51P)
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and directional elements (forward, reverse or non-directional) • Event recorder including 1024 change-of-binary-input events, 1024
are provided. A harmonic blocking function is integrated to supervision events, 256 control logs and 1024 operating logs
restrain each stage independently.
• Disturbance recorder including 32 disturbance records with
• Four-stage earth fault protection (50/51G) waveforms (The format of disturbance recorder is compatible
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and directional elements (forward, reverse or non-directional)
• Clock synchronization using IRIG-B, SNTP, PPS (Pulse-Per-
are provided. A harmonic blocking function is integrated to
Second) and PPM (Pulse-Per-Minute), IEEE1588
restrain each stage independently.

• Four-stage negative sequence overcurrent protection (50/51Q) Communication

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and directional elements (forward, reverse or non-directional) using IEC 61850, DNP3.0 or IEC 60870-5-103 over TCP/IP
are provided.
• Up to two 100Base-FX optical Ethernet ports using IEC
• Three-stage undervoltage protection and overvoltage protection 61850, DNP3.0 or IEC 60870-5-103 over TCP/IP (Sharing
(27P/59P) two copper Ethernet ports)
Selectable time characteristics (definite-time or inverse-
• Two RS-485 serial ports using IEC 60870-5-103
time) and voltage element (Phase voltage or phase-to-phase
voltage, “1-out-of-3” or “3-out-of-3” logic) are provided. • One RS-485 serial port for clock synchronization

• Optional Sampling value and GOOSE communication

• One-stage negative sequence overvoltage protection (59Q)
module with six/eight optical Ethernet ports using IEC 61850-
Negative sequence overvoltage protection is a simple pure
9-2 and IEC 61850-8-1 GOOSE
overvoltage protection.

• Three-stage residual overvoltage protection (59G). User Interface

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• HMI interface with large-size LCD and 9-button keypad on
are provided.
the front panel
• Four-stage underfrequency protection and overfrequency • Support setup up to 40 users and allow each user to own
protection (81) different password and access authority
Underfrequency protection and overfrequency protection
• Provide some function shortcuts key, which can be
will be blocked for undervoltage condition and frequency
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abnormality condition. The df/dt element also is provided for
key of devices' keypad, to execute some operation quickly.
the supervision of underfrequency protection.

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• One front RJ-45 port for testing and setting • Comprehensive flexibility is provided via the modular
hardware design, scalable function library, programmable
• One RS-232 or RS-485 rear port for printer
logics, configurable I/Os and definable LEDs. This allows
• Language selection – English + selected language users to create customized schemes for specific projects.
Two fixed LEDs and 18 definable 3-color LEDs (Green/
• Assistant software - PCS-Explorer
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• The relay is designed based on NR Electric’s well-established

Features and proven hardware platform with multiprocessor architecture.
The multi-CPU technology supports parallel operation of CPU
• A unique two-out-two logic is adopted in hardware design to modules.
improve security. Coordinating with the redundant scheme,
this solution improves both security and dependability of • The relay is fully compatible with IEC 61850, it includes
protection system. The two independent data acquisition station bus communication and process bus communication.
paths are provided to prevent mal-operation caused by The relay provides up to 6 Ethernet ports for process bus
component failure. One works as a fault detector and the with IEC 61850-9-2 Sampling Value and IEC 61850-8-1
other is designed for protection logic. Tripping outputs are GOOSE, as well as up to 4 Ethernet ports for station bus
supervised by both data acquisition paths. with IEC 61850-8-1 MMS.

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