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NOTE TO THE SPECIFIER: THE FOLLOWING SPECIFICATION IS INTENDED TO BE USED
AS A COMPLEMENT TO AN EXISTING SECTION (EITHER THE DEVICE SECTION OR AS A
SUBSET OF AN EQUIPMENT SECTION). INSERT THE FOLLOWING INTO PART 2 OF THE
BASE SPECIFICATION.
PRODUCTS

PART 2
2.1

GENERATOR PROTECTION RELAYS

A.

The generator management relay shall provide complete primary

protection and management to medium to large generators including
metering and monitoring functions. The relay may be applied on
synchronous or induction generators of 25, 50, or 60 Hz. Provide the
General Electric type 489 relay or approved equal.

B.

The relay shall have a drawout construction to facilitate testing,

maintenance and interchange flexibility.

C.

The relay shall operate with either wye-connected (four wire) or opendelta-connected (three wire) potential transformers, and three phase,
four wire connected current transformers.

D.

It shall be equipped with the following protection functions.

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1.

Instantaneous overcurrent when offline (50)

2.

High-set overcurrent (50)

3.

Distance (21)

4.

Ground directional (67)

5.

Instantaneous and definite time overcurrent for ground (50/51G)

6.

Stator thermal modeling and RTD (49).

a.

Include 15 standard overload curves, a custom curve feature,

and a custom curve

b.

The stator protective thermal model shall combine inputs from

positive and negative sequence currents and RTD winding
feedback. This will then cause the model to become dynamic in
nature in order to follow the loading and temperature of the
generator.

c.

Cooling time constants

7.

Negative sequence overcurrent (46)

8.

Bearing overtemperature (38)

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9.

Phase differential (87G)

10.

Over and undervoltage (59/27)

11.

Reverse power for anti-generatoring (32)

12.

Low Forward Power monitoring

13.

Inadvertent generator energization (50/27)

14.

Overspeed (12)

15.

Voltage restrained phase overcurrent (51V)

16.

100% stator ground protection (59GN/27TN)

17.

Bearing vibration (39)

18.

Voltage phase reversal (47)

19.

VT fuse failure detection (60FL)

20.

Breaker failure detection (50BF)

21.

Trip coil supervision

22.

Sequential tripping logic

23.

The relay shall incorporate four transducer type inputs to be used for
tripping and alarming on any transducer input such as vibration,
pressure, flow, etc.

24.

12 RTD inputs with associated over-temperature protection functions

including alarm and trip settings, with corresponding settable time delays,
and associated outputs. The following additional functionality shall be
provided, associated to RTDs:
a.

Able to configure each of the twelve RTDs as None or any one

of four application types: Stator, Bearing, Ambient, or
Other

b.

RTD type shall be selectable between four different RTD types:

100 Ohm Platinum, 120 Ohm Nickel, 100 Ohm Nickel, or 10
Ohm Copper

c.

The generator relay shall incorporate the RTD inputs to support

the following:
(1)

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25.

E.

F.

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(2)

Temperature alarms and trips (49/38)

(3)

RTD open- or short-circuit alarm

d.

The generator relay shall include trip voting for extra reliability in
the event of RTD malfunction. If enabled, a second RTD must
also exceed the trip temperature of the RTD being checked
before a trip is issued.

e.

Provisions shall be included to allow the RTDs to be identified by

name

Protection functions associated to Power, which include alarm and trip

settings, with corresponding settable time delays, and associated
outputs:
a.

Reactive Power

b.

Reverse Power

c.

Low Forward Power

When applied with Synchronous generator protection shall include:

1.

Overexcitation (24)

2.

Loss of field (40 & 40Q)

3.

Over and under frequency (81)

The generator protection relay shall have six (6) output relays, and
nine (9) digital inputs. The output relays shall be as follows: Trip Relay,
Alarm Relay, three auxiliary relays, and a service relay. Two of the nine
digital inputs shall have the following functions:
1.

Access Switch to allow changing of any setpoint values from the face
plate,

2.

Breaker Status configured for either an 'a' or 'b' auxiliary contact.

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G.

Seven digital inputs shall be user programmable. The function that the
input is used for may be chosen from the following list of functions:
Remote Reset, Test Input to prevent statistical data from being
corrupted or updated when the relay is under test, Thermal Reset,
Dual Setpoints, Sequential Trip to allow the relay to be tripped
from an external device, Breaker Discrepancy Input, Tachometer,
Ground Switch Status, Waveform Capture, and General Input
functions in which control, alarm and/or trip functions may then be
configured for that input.

H.

The relay shall provide complete monitoring and metering functions.

These shall include:

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1.

Current: Phasors, RMS Values of Generator and Neutral Terminal,

Average, Generator Load, Negative Sequence, Ground and Sensitive
Ground, and Differential Currents

2.

Voltage: Phasors, RMS Values and Average of Phase-Phase and PhaseNeutral Voltages, Volts / Hz, Neutral Voltage (fundamental), Neutral
Voltage (3rd Harmonic), Terminal Voltage (3rd Harmonic), Impedance

3.

Frequency

4.

Temperature of each RTD Inputs

5.

Generator Speed (RPM)

6.

Power: Power Factor, Three phase Real (kw), Reactive (kvar), Apparent
(kva) Power

7.

Energy: Watt-hours, Var-hours Positive and Negative

8.

Current and Power Demand including pick values. Rolling Demand

method, time interval, programmed to 5 to 90 min in steps of 1 minute

9.

An event recorder with a record of the last 256 events, time tagged with a
resolution of 10 ms.

10.

The current and voltage inputs shall be sampled 12 times a cycle. The
waveform capture feature is similar to a transient/fault recorder. The relay
shall storage capacity of up to 128 cycles of data, captured for Phase A,
B, and C currents (Ia, Ib, and Ic), Neutral A, B, and C currents
(Ineutral_a, Ineutral_b, and Ineutral_c), Ground currents (Ig), Phase A-N,
B-N, and C-N voltages (Van, Vbn, and Vcn) for wye connections, Phase
A-B and B-C (Vab and Vbc) for open-delta connections

11.

The relay shall be able to provide data in the form of trending or data
logger, sampling and recording up to eight actual values at an interval
defined by the user. Several parameters shall be trended and graphed at
sampling periods ranging from 1 second up to 1 hour. The parameters

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which can be trended by the Setup software shall be: Phase Currents A,
B, and C, Generator Load, Negative-Sequence Current, Ground Current
and Neutral Current, Differential Currents A, B, and C, System
Frequency, Voltages Vab, Vbc, Vca Van, Vbn & Vcn, Power Factor, Real
(kW) Reactive (kvar), and Apparent (kVA) Power, Positive Watthours,
Positive and Negative, Hottest Stator RTD, Thermal Capacity Used,
RTDs 1 through 12, Current, Peak Current, Reactive Power, Peak
Reactive Power, Apparent Power, Peak Apparent Power, Analog Inputs
1, 2, 3, and 4, Tachometer.

I.

12.

The relay shall include four 4 to 20 mA or 0 to 1 mA (as specified with

order) transducer outputs that may be assigned to any measured
parameter. The range of these outputs shall be scalable.

13.

The relay shall include 4 analog inputs, 4 to 20 mA, 0 to 20 mA, or 0 to 1

mA as selected. These inputs shall be used to monitor transducers such
as vibration monitors, tachometers, pressure transducers, etc. The inputs
shall be used for alarm and tripping purposes. Once the inputs are setup,
both the trip and alarm features may be configured. In addition to
programming a level and time delay, the pickup setpoint shall be used to
dictate whether the feature picks up when the measured value is over or
under the level.

14.

Latest trip report containing date and time, cause, phase, ground,
sensitive ground, and differential currents, generator load, negative
sequence current, speed, Line-Line and Line-ground voltages, neutral
voltage fundamental, neutral voltage third harmonic, hottest RTDs,
system frequency, real, reactive and apparent power, impedance, and
analog Inputs

15.

In addition, the relay shall provide the following additional information:

Alarm status information reflecting Alarm Name as programmed
and status.

b.

Trip pickup messages useful during testing. They shall indicate if

a trip feature has been enabled, if it is inactive (not picked up),
timing out (picked up and timing), active trip (still picked up,
timed out, and causing a trip), or latched trip (no longer picked
up, but had timed out and caused a trip that is latched).

c.

Alarm pickup messages useful during testing. They will indicate if

an alarm feature has been enabled, if it is inactive (not picked
up), timing out (picked up and timing), active alarm (still picked
up, timed out, and causing an alarm), or latched alarm (no longer
picked up, but had timed out and caused a alarm that is latched).

The relay shall provide comprehensive statistical data and learned

information, as follows:
1.

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a.

Learned Information:
This data shall be accumulated based on the last five starts.

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2.

a.

Average generator load

b.

Average negative sequence current

c.

Average Phase-Phase voltage

d.

RTD maximums for each RTD

e.

Analog Inputs minimums and maximums

Preventive Maintenance Information:

a.

The relay shall keep count of number of trips by type

b.

Generator breaker operations

c.

Generator running hours

J.

The relay shall have breaker monitoring inputs for the detection of a
failed circuit regardless of the breaker state

K.

The relay shall have the capability to display up to 5 user

programmable text messages

L.

Under normal conditions, if no front panel activity is detected within a

settable time, the screen shall sequentially display up to 30 default
messages. Any actual value or setpoint message shall be selectable for
default display

M.

User interfaces shall include:

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1.

A large 40 character LCD display, navigation keys, full numeric keypad

located on the front panel

2.

Indicator LEDs indicators located on the front panel which shall indicate
the status of the protection relay, generator, and output relays

3.

A front panel RS232 serial port that shall provide easy computer access.
The communications protocol shall be Modbus RTU.

4.

Two rear RS485 ports, with baud rates from 300 to 19,200 bps, allowing
simultaneous independent access using Modbus RTU and DNP 3.0
protocol.

5.

An optional RJ45 Ethernet port shall be provided to allow 10BaseT

Ethernet connectivity to Local or Wide Area Networks. The
communications protocol shall be Modbus TCP.

6.

The relay shall be capable of being set by Windows-based, easy to use

setup graphical terminal interface

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7.

To make the data acquisition more efficient, the generator relay shall
provide a User Definable Memory Map, which shall allow a remote
computer to read up to 125 nonconsecutive data registers by using one
Modbus packet. The User Definable Memory Map shall be programmed
to join any memory map address to one in the block of consecutive User
Map locations, so that they can be accessed by means of these
consecutive locations. The User Definable area shall have two sections:
a.

A Register Index area containing 125 Actual Values or Setpoints

registers

b.

A Register area containing the data located at the addresses in

the Register Index

N.

A simulation feature shall be included to allow testing without the need

for external voltage and current inputs.

O.

To help extend product life, and to protect the generator relay from
hostile and harsh environments including moisture, temperature
variations, salt spray, organic attack (fungus), and aggressive
chemicals and vapors, the product manufacturer shall provide optional
harsh environment conformal coating. The following specifications
shall be met:

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1.

Military specifications MIL-I-46058-C, type AR, ER and UR

2.

UL recognized according to specification UL746C/94 for indoor and

outdoor applications

3.

IEC68-2-60 Part 2, Method 3, 1995 Mixed Flowing Gas Testing

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