Protection Features - GE D90 Plus Instruction Manual

CHAPTER 2: PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
Front panel USB port

Protection features

Distance protection
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D90 LINE DISTANCE PROTECTION SYSTEM – INSTRUCTION MANUAL
The front panel of the D90
Figure 7: Front panel USB connection
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The D90 is designed for superior performance and ease-of-use, providing a single
platform solution for protecting transmission lines from medium voltage (MV) to extra high
voltage (EHV) and cables of various voltage levels. The scalable platform consists of
protection, control, automation, monitoring, communication, digital fault recorder (DFR)
and security functionality. The incrementally scalable concept allows customization in
building the device to suit specific user requirement. The truly convergent platform
integrates multiple devices eliminating external devices and reduces the footprint of relay
panels resulting in reduced wiring, commissioning and capital costs.
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The core of the D90 relay is the subcycle distance function providing a high degree of
sensitivity and selectivity for all types of faults. The distance function features five zones of
phase and ground distance protection, providing the user the utmost flexibility of making
each zone directional, non directional, or reverse. This allows customization to a variety of
applications, including primary line protection, backup protection for busbars, and backup
protection for generators, transformers, and reactors. The relay can be applied to power
systems with different earthing conditions, lines with in-zone transformers or tapped
transformer feeders and overhead lines with series compensation. Each zone element for
the phase and ground distance can be set to the quadrilateral or mho characteristic with
the flexibility of designing different characteristic shapes to suit for different power system
conditions.
The advanced comparator based distance elements provide utmost security, sensitivity
and selectivity for different types of faults. Superior digital filtering techniques provide
secure and optimum reach accuracy even under worst-case CVT transients without
compromising the operating time. Secure direction detection is achieved by using positive
sequence memory voltage polarization providing reliable directionality for worst-case
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close-in faults. The D90
provides fast, secure and reliable faulted phase identification for single pole tripping and
proper fault distance calculation for a variety of power system conditions. An additional
voltage monitoring function provides extra security to the distance element, which can be
used to block the distance elements under voltage transformer fuse failure conditions.
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provides a USB 2.0 port for simple local connection.
employs a well-proven algorithm for phase selection, which
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