TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION

CONTROL AND RELAY PANEL

CONTROL AND RELAY PANELS

1. Scope
The specification covers the design, manufacture, assembly, testing at manufacturers works, packing and delivery of control and relay panels for 220KV substations.

2 Standards
Equipment covered by this specification shall conform to latest issues the following Standards: IS:1248 Direct Acting Indicating Analogue Electrical Measuring Instruments and their Accessories IS:6236 Direct recording electrical measuring instruments. IS:13703 Low voltage fuses. IS:5578 Guide for Marking of insulated conductors. IS:694 PVC insulated cables for working voltages up to and including 1100V. IS:11353 Uniform system of marking and identification of conductors an apparatus terminals. IS:3231 Electrical relays for power system protection. IEEE C37.9 IEEE Standard for Relays and Relay Systems Associated with Electric Power Apparatus. IEEE C37.90.1IEEE Standard Surge Withstand Capability (SWC) Tests for Protective Relays and Relay Systems Associated with Electric Power Apparatus. IEEE C37.90.2Electrostatic Discharge Tests for Protective Relays IEC 60688 Electrical Measuring Transducers for converting a.c electrical quantities to analogue or digital signals. IEC 60255-5 Electrical Relays- Part 5 : Insulation co-ordination for measuring relays and protection equipments-Requirements and tests IEC 60255-6 Electrical Relays-Part 6: Measuring Relays and protection equipments. IEC 60255-22-2 Electrical disturbance tests for measuring relays and protection equipment, Electrostatic Discharge Tests IEC 60255-22-3 Electrical disturbance tests for measuring relays and protection equipment, Radiated Electromagnetic Field Disturbance Tests IEC 60255-22-4 Electrical disturbance tests for measuring relays and protection equipment, Fast Transient/burst immunity Tests IEC 60255-22-6 Electrical disturbance test s for measuring relays and protection equipment Immunity to conducted disturbances induced by radio frequency fields. IEC 60 255-25 Electrical relays - Part 25 : Electromagnetic emission tests for measuring relays and protection equipment IEC 61850 Communication networks and Systems in Sub-station all relevant latest versions and editions. Where the equipment offered conforms to any other standard, the salient points of difference between the standards adopted and IEC recommendation shall be clearly indicated and the English version of the proposed standard shall be furnished.

Function
Control: The panels shall be used for switching in and out transmission lines, power and auto transformers, and feeders with adequate indications depicting the status of each equipment. Protection: The panels shall also provide adequate relays for protection of transmission lines, power and auto transformers, and feeders. Interlocks : Adequate interlocks to be ensured between breaker and isolators.

Construction
The panels shall be of Duplex type as indicated in the Specific Requirements. The panels shall be sheet steel enclosed, dust and vermin proof with minimum degree of protection not less than IP-42. The panels shall be floor mounting freestanding type mounted on a supporting structure so as to form a rigid enclosure suitable for the application. The panels shall be fabricated out of CRCA sheet steel of minimum 3 mm thickness for the front and back covers, doors and load bearing members and 2 mm for the rest. All doors and openings shall be provided with neoprene gaskets. The panel shall be provided with integral base frame. The integral base frame of panels shall be suitable for directly bolting with the help of foundation bolts and shall also be suitable for tack welding to the control room floor embedded insert plate/ flat/ channel. Amply dimensioned oblong holes shall be provided at the bottom of all panels for bolting on to the embedded insert channel. The height of the panels shall not exceed 2400 mm and the bottom of the panels shall have a 100 mm thick plate all around. Cable entry shall be from the bottom unless specified otherwise. A suitable removable undrilled gland plate shall be provided for cable entry. Duplex panel shall consist of a front and a rear panel connected back to back with a walkway in the central corridor having width not less than 800 mm. There shall be complete access through the corridor to the terminal blocks, internal wiring and components mounted on the panel. Separate cable entries shall be provided for front and rear panels. Interconnection between front and rear panels shall be by inter-panel wiring (through the corridor) at the top of the inside of the panel. Adequately sized hinged type access doors shall be provided at both ends complete with door handles, lock and latching facility. Component mounting In duplex panel, the controls, indications, meters, annunciations and mimic diagram shall be mounted on the front panel and relays shall be mounted on the rear panel.All equipment mounted on front/rear panels shall be flush mounting type. All meters/Components shall be suitable for vertical/horizontal mounting. All control gear, switches, push buttons etc. shall be within easy reach for proper operations. The meters shall be so located as to enable easy observations of readings.Checking and removal of individual components shall be possible without disturbing the adjacent equipment. It should be possible to test all the protective relays in-situ. The internally mounted components, auxiliary equipment such as transducers, interposing CTs etc. shall be mounted in such a way as to be readily accessible without impeding the access to internal wiring and other components.All control and supply cables will be laid in distributing trenches running under the control panel. Necessary drawing showing cable entry positions and foundation bolt locations shall have to be supplied by the successful Bidders. The control panels shall be supplied complete with channel base grouting bolts, nuts, washers etc. Wiring The wires shall conform IS: 694. All wiring shall be done with PVC insulated 1100V grade, single core multi-strand (minimum 3 strands) annealed copper conductors. The wires shall be flame proof and vermin proof. The minimum size for different circuits shall not be less than those as specified below: 1) 2) 3) Current Transformer Circuit : 1 X 4 sq. mm. Copper Voltage Transformer Circuit: 1 X4 sq. mm. Copper Other Circuit including Control wires : 1 X2.5 sq. mm. Copper for fuse rating of 10 Amps or less.

Each wire shall be identified at both ends with wire numbers by means of PVC ferrules. The following colour scheme shall be used for the wiring. Circuit where use. Colour of wire and ferrule. Red. Yellow.

Red phase of instrument transformer circuit Yellow phase of instrument transformer Blue phase of instrument transformer circuits Blue. Neutral connections earthed or not earthed in the instrument transformer circuit Green. A.C. Control wiring circuits using D.C. supply TERMINAL BLOCKS All the terminal blocks to be used in the panel

Grey

shall be provided with 1100V grade stud type terminal block of Polyamide material. (OAT-6 for non-disconnecting type and OAT 6T for d i s c o n n e c t i n g type o f E l m e x / Connectwell (Equivalent). At least 20% spare Terminals shall be provided.

All internal wiring to be connected to external equipment shall terminate on terminal blocks. Disconnecting type Terminal blocks shall be 1100 V grade and have 20 Amps. Continuous rating, molded piece, complete with insulated barriers, stud type terminals, washers, nuts and lock nuts,. Markings on the terminal blocks shall correspond to wire number and terminal numbers on the wiring diagrams. All terminal blocks shall have shrouding with transparent unbreakable material. Disconnecting type terminal blocks for current transformer and voltage transformer secondary leads shall be provided. Also current transformer secondary leads shall be provided with short-circuiting and earthling facilities. At least 20% spare terminals shall be provided on each panel and these spare terminals shall be uniformly distributed on all terminal blocks. Unless otherwise specified, terminal blocks shall be suitable for connecting the following conductors of external cable on each side. There shall be a minimum clearance of 250mm between the first row of terminal blocks and the associated cable gland plate or panel sidewall. Also the clearance between two rows of terminal blocks edges shall be minimum of 150mm. Arrangement of the terminal block assemblies and the wiring channel within the enclosure shall be such that a row of terminal blocks is run in parallels and close proximity along each side of the wiring duct to provide for convenient attachment of internal panel wiring. The side of the terminal block opposite the wiring duct shall be reserved for the owners external cable connections. All adjacent terminal blocks shall also share this fieldwiring corridor. All wiring shall be provided withadequate support inside the panels to hold them firmly and to enable free and flexible termination without causing strain on terminals.

Earthing A continuous 25mm X 3mm copper (tinned) earth bus shall be provided along the full length of the panels. Suitable arrangement shall be provided at the two ends for connection to the plant grounding system. Each panel and the equipment mounted on each panel shall be securely connected to the grounding bus. For this purpose the ground wire shall be looped from equipment to equipment and both ends of the ground wire shall be connected to the ground bus. All doors and movable parts shall be connected to the ground bus with flexible copper connections. Current free metallic parts or metallic bodies of equipment shall be earthed with soft drawn single conductor bare copper. Tail connection shall have minimum area of 16 sq. mm and main connection 60 sq. mm. These wires shall be connected by Ross-Courtney terminals and clamp junctions. Soldered connections shall not be employed. The main earth connection for each panel shall be brought out to terminals for connection to the station earthing system. Illumination & Space heaters Incandescent or fluorescent lamps working on 240V AC, operated by door switches shall be provided for internal panel illumination.A 240V, single phase, 5A, 3 pin socket shall be provided in the panel corridor or interior of each cubicle with on-off switch for connection of hand lamps. This socket shall be metal clad type with a spring loaded flap. Panel space heaters shall operate on 240 V10% AC and shall be supplied complete with on- off switch, fuse and thermostat. A common thermostat shall be provided for the entire panel. The thermostat shall maintain the internal temperature above the ambient temperature to prevent moisture condensation. The watt loss per unit surface of the heaters shall be low enough to keep surface temperature well below visible heat. Painting All metal surfaces shall be thoroughly cleaned and degreased to remove mill scale, rust, grease and dirt. Fabricated structure shall be pickled and then rinsed to remove any trace of acid. The under surface shall be prepared by applying a coat of phosphate paint and a coat of yellow zinc chromate primer. The under surface shall be made free from all imperfections before undertaking painting coat. After preparation of the under surface, the relay and control panel shall be spray painted with two coats of final epoxy paint or shall be powder coated. Colour shade of final paint shall be RAL 7032. The spray painted finished panels shall be dried in stoving oven in dust free atmosphere. Panel finish shall be free from imperfections like pin holes, run-off paint etc. All hardware parts shall be cadmium plated or suitably treated to prevent rust and corrosion. If these parts are moving elements these must be greased. Mimic diagrams Mimic diagram shall be provided on all panels. The mimic diagram shall be screwed on to the panels and shall be made of anodised aluminium or plastic of approved fast colour. The mimic shall be 10mm wide for horizontal run and 5mm wide for vertical run. If semaphore indicators are used for indicating isolator position, they shall be automatic type and shall be mounted in the mimic in such a way that isolator closed position shall complete the

continuity of the mimic. Alternatively red and green lamps may be used for indicating the Closed and Open position of the isolators. In such cases the isolator control switches shall be placed at appropriate positions in the mimic diagram. The mimic diagram shall also incorporate lamps and control switches for all the breakers. Alternatively discrepancy switches with in-built semaphore and position indication lamps may be provided for breaker control/indication. The discrepancy lamp shall perform the following functions: The breaker on-off control shall be through this switch. The lamp will remain steady when the semaphore position corresponds with the breaker position. The lamp will flicker if the semaphore position does not correspond with the breaker position. The colour code for the various voltages shall be as follows: 220KV - Golden Brown to shade 414 of IS : 5.

Instruments, Meters, Recorders and Transducers General

All instruments, meters, recorders and transducers shall be enclosed in dust proof, moisture resistant, black finished cases and shall be suitable for tropical use. All indicating instruments and recorders shall be digital type and provided with individual transducers and shall be calibrated along with the transducers to read directly the primary quantities. They shall be accurately adjusted and calibrated at works and shall have a means of calibrations check and adjustment at site. The supplier shall confirm that the indicating instruments, recorders along with transducers and energy meters offered by him are suitable for connecting to the instrument transformers having the technical particulars given in reference drawing. Synchronizing Instruments shall also meet the requirements of the relevant clause of this section of the Specification. Digital bus voltage and frequency meters shall be of class 0.5 and shall have digital readouts of five and four digits respectively, with display size, not less than 50 mm (height)

Metering Instruments
Energy meters
Energy meters shall be provided on all line feeders, bays as per the requirements stated in the schedule of requirement of this specification. On 400/220/132 kV feeders emanating from various substations, where commercial metering is required redundant energy metering in form of MAIN shall be employed.Energy meters shall be solid state trivector type. The energy meters are intended to measure, record and display active energy (kWh/MWh), reactive energy (kVARh/MVARh), apparent energy (kVAh/MVAh), Maximum Demand (MVA/kVA/MW/kW/ etc. They should be of three phase two element type or three element type suitable for measurement of unbalanced loads in three phase, three wire circuits.The meters shall be provided with at least six registers for TOD metering purposes. The meters shall have LCD or cyclometer type registers. Energy meters shall be of draw out or nondrawout type and suitable for flush mounting with back connected terminals. Energy meters s h a l l be suitable for operation from the secondary of CTs and VTs. Separate test blocks for the testing of the meters (without disturbing the CT and VT secondary connections) shall be provided. Energy Meters shall have reverse running stops. Meters shall conform to IEC 687 /IS 13779. All watthour meters shall have accuracy class of 0.2. All VARhhour meters shall have accuracy class of 3.0. The energy meters shall also conform the requirements stipulated in Technical

Report of Central Board of Irrigation and Power, India. Energy Meters shall be compensated for temperature errors and factory calibrated to read the secondary quantities. The number of digits provided shall be adequate to cover at least 1500 hours of operation.Current coils of the meters shall have continuous overload capacity of at least 200% for both accuracy and thermal limits, and shall withstand at least 20 times of rated current for 0.5 seconds without loss of accuracy. Energy meters should have facilities for data transfers remote metering with proper security via an optically isolated communication port using serial communication. Where required, output ports shall be provided for summation and time synchronisation. Energy meters shall be provided with features for monitoring tamper and fraud. The possible cases of tamper and fraud shall be proposed by the Project Manager to Contractor for incorporation in to the metering software. Energy meters should be provided with adequate software and hardware to store the load survey data from the last reset time. Energy meters shall also be provided with self diagnostic features.

Technical requirement for energy meters

Description Operating voltage Operating current Measurement Requirement 110V Phase to phase, 65.3V Phase to neutral 15 A Real and reactive energy Maximum demand Bidirectional power flow Digital type (electronic type). In case of electronic type of display the minimum retention time for non volatile memory shall not be less than 5 years Optical Port / E Port Technical requirements for energy meters

Display

Communication

Recording instruments
Recording instruments shall have the following characteristics features : Static/Digital type voltage and frequency recorders in individual units for the substation with time tagged information shall be acceptable. It shall meet the accuracy of +/:1.0% span and full span response time of less tha 2 seconds. It shall also meet the high voltage susceptibility test,impulse voltage withstand test,high frequency disturbance test class III and fast transient disturbance test leve III as per IEC 602555.

Transducers
General
The transducers used for recording/indicating instruments and telemetry/data communication applications shall in general conform to IEC 6881.Transducers shall be suitable for measurement of active power, reactive power, voltage, current and frequency in three phase, four wire system. These could be separate or combined type. Serial port on combined type is also acceptable.The input to the transducers will be from substation current and potential transformers. The output shall be in milli ampere DC proportional to the input. It shall be possible to feed the

output current directly to the telemetry terminals, indicating instruments or recording instruments.The transducer characteristic shall be linear throughout the measuring range. The transducer output shall be load independent.The input and output of the transducers shall be galvanically isolated.The transducer shall derive its auxiliary supply from the quantity to be measured without need for any external supply.Each transducer shall be housed in a separate compact case and have suitable terminals for inputs and outputs.Input side terminal connectors (from CTs and PTs) to be suitable for three phase, four wire connection.The transducers shall be suitably protected against transient high peaks of voltage and current. The transducer shall withstand indefinitely without damage and work satisfactorily at 120% of the rated voltage and 200% of the rated input current as applicable.Voltage, frequency and current transducers associated with the ISCS shall have an output to 010 mA and the active and reactive power transducers shall have an output of 10010 mA.Voltage, frequency and current transducers associated with conventional systems shall have an output to 420 mA and the active and reactive power transducers shall have an output of 10010 mA.The response time of the transducers associated with ISCS shall be less than 500 milliseconds. Response time for transducers associated with conventional systems shall be less than one second.The transducers shall have a working temperature range of 050C.The accuracy class of transducers shall be 0.5 or better except for frequency transducer which shall be 0.2.The transducers shall have an AC ripple on output of less than 1%.The transducers shall be suitable for load resistance of 10001500 ohms.The CT and PT ratios and scale ranges for the voltage, current and frequency transducers shall be suitable for the various CT and PT ratios (as applicable) furnished with the specification and compatible with the feeder/transformer voltage levels and ratings.The transducer shall be provided with terminal connectors for wire of maximum cross section of 4 mm., with dual screws, for rigid connections.The transducer shall have dual output.

Transducers (recording/indicating instruments and telemetry/data communication application)

The transducers shall in general conform to IEC 6881 and have the following features: Each transducer shall be housed in a separate compact case and have suitable terminals for inputs and outputs. The transducers shall have an output of 420 mA. The response time of the transducers shall be less than one second.

The accuracy class of transducers shall be 0.5 or better except for frequency transducer which shall be 0.2. The PT ratios and scale ranges for the voltage and frequency transducers shall be as follows: PT Ratio Voltage transducer Frequency transducers 220kV/110V 4555 Hertz. Scale range 0300kV

All the transducers shall be suitable for CT and PT parameters specified. The transducer shall have dual output.

Annunciation System:

General
The annunciation shall be of visual and audible type. The visual annunciation shall be provided by annunciation facia, mounted flush on the top of the control panels. The audible alarm shall be provided by alarm buzzer or bell. The annunciation facia shall be provided with translucent plastic windows for alarm points with minimum size of 35 mm x 50 mm. The facia plates shall be engraved in black lettering with inscriptions. The list of such inscriptions shall be furnished by the Contractor for the Project Managers approval. The inscriptions shall be engraved on each window in not more than three lines with letter sizing not less than 5 mm. Where annunciation systems are already provided, the annunciation scheme shall be engineered as an extension to the existing scheme. Each annunciation window shall be provided with two white lamps in parallel to provide safety against lamp failure. Long life lamps shall be used. The lamp circuit shall include series resistor of adequate rating. The cover plate of the facia windows shall be flush with the control panel and shall be capable of easy removal to facilitate replacement of lamps. The cover plate transparency and the lamps wattage in the fascia windows shall be designed to ensure clear visibility of the inscriptions in the control rooms ( having an illumination level of 350 lux) from the location of the Operators desk. TRIP and NONTRIP facia shall be differentiated. All TRIP facia shall have red colour and all NONTRIP fascia shall have green colour. Sequence of operation of the annunciator shall be as given in Table 10.1.
Alarm Condition Fault Contact Status Visual Annunciation Audible Annunciation

Normal Abnormal Accept push button is pressed Reset push Lamp test push button pressed Table 10.1.

Open Close (a) Close (b) Open (a) Close (b) Open Open

OFF Flashing Steady on Steady on ON ON Steady on

OFF ON OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF

Sequence of annunciator operation

Visual and audible annunciation for the failure of DC supply to the annunciation system shall also be provided and this annunciation shall operate on 240 Volts AC supply with separate fuses. On failure of the power supply to the annunciation system for more than two or three seconds (adjustable setting) a facia shall light up and an audible alarm shall sound. A separate push button shall be provided for the cancellation of this audible alarm alone, however the facia window shall remain steadily lit till the supply to the annunciation system is restored. The sound of the audible alarm (bell) provided for this annunciation shall be different from the audible alarm provided for the annunciation system. A separate voltage check shall be provided to monitor the failure of supply (240V AC) to the scheme mention above. If the failure of supply exists for more than two to three seconds this relay shall initiate visual and audible annunciation. The annunciation system shall be capable of

catering to at least 20 simultaneous signals at time. One self resetting push button shall be provided on each panel for testing the facia window lamps. Push buttons for testing flasher and audible alarm circuits of the annunciation system and for testing the annunciation supply failure monitoring circuit shall be provided. These testing circuits shall be so connected that while testing is being done it shall not prevent the registering of any new annunciation that may occur during the test. One set of the following push buttons shall be provided on each panel as shown in the sample front view drawing attached to this Specification. Reset push button for annunciation system.

Accept push button for annunciation system. The annunciation shall be repetitive type and shall be capable of registering fleeting signals. Minimum duration of the fleeting signal registered by the system shall be 15 milliseconds. Auxiliary relays for the annunciation system shall have adequate auxiliary potential free contacts for use in event logger. The annunciation shall be suitable for operation with normally open contacts which close on a fault or contacts which open on a fault. It shall be possible at site to change annunciators from close to fault to open to fault and viceversa.In case of a static annunciator scheme, special precautions shall be taken by Contractor to ensure that spurious alarm conditions do not appear due to the influence of external electro magnetic or electrostatic interference on the annunciator wiring, and switching disturbances from the neighboring circuits within the panels. Annunciation systems to be supplied for existing substations should be matched with the existing scheme in coordination with the Project Manager during detail engineering stage. ANNUNCIATOR Each control and relay panel shall be provided with microprocessor based anunciator(s) facial on the front of the control panel for projecting maloperation in the system equipment due to fault. The annunciation board shall be of the switch board type, back connected suitable for semi flush mounting provided with dust tight cases. The single relays shall be suitable for tropical use. The alarm concealing visual signal resetting and annunciation testing buttons shall be mounted on the front of each control panel at convenient height, preferably under the annunciation board. One part of the annunciation shall comprise of one electrical D.C. operated bell and one D.C. operated hooter for trip and nontrip alarm mounted inside or on top of the switch board cubicle on vibration absorbent mountings. A suitable hand reset relay device shall be employed in the suitable hand reset relay device shall be employed in the suitable alarm circuit to permit manual cancellation of the audible alarm in token of its acceptance by an operator before rectification of the abnormality. The wiring shall be such that a single set of bell and alarm cancellation relay will be sufficient and serve in commons with all the alarm actuating devices. b) The other part of the anunciator shall discriminate and sort out the cause of alarm and project visual alarm signals by tokens of telephone type flush lamps illumined windows on facial plate. There shall be an independent token for each abnormal condition announced and the wiring of all the tokens shall be so done that each token will operate independently of the other without causing any maloperation on the enunciator. A reset

device, manually operated by an operator, shall be provided for each column of the visual alarms to enable the operator to cancel each visual alarm at will after removal of the discrepancy or abnormal condition. Suitable testing device shall be provided on each enunciator to be assembled for routine checking of enunciator alarm and indication. The enunciator shall be suitable for operation across the D.C. supply voltage of the substation. Momentary closing of fault contacts shall also cause operation of enunciator system as above and shall require canceling and resetting operations by the operator to silence the bell and reset the enunciator window. c) Minimum of 4 Nos spare windows each for trip and non trip are to be provided in each annunciator DISTRIBUTION AND CONTROL OF AUXILIARY POWER CIRCUIT D.C. CIRCUIT There shall be separate D.C. incomers for the each control and relay board panel fed from D.C. distribution boards through a suitable fuse switch unit, provided there. M.C.B,s. of required Amps rating shall be provided in the panel as D.C. incomer (source I one number and source II one number). A continuous D.C. bus shall be provided in the control and relay board panel and D.C. supply for control, protection, supervision and indication of circuit breaker and other equipments shall be teed off in each panel from D.C. bus through a set of HRC Fuse (both on +ve and ve side) D.C. supply to individual panel thus teed off shall be distributed within the panel as below. SWITCHES & FUSES: Each panel shall be provided with necessary arrangement for receiving, distributing and isolating of DC and AC supplies for various control, signaling, lighting and space heater circuits. The incoming and subcircuits shall be separately provided with fuses. The selection of the main and sub circuit fuses rating shall be such as to ensure selective clearance of subcircuit faults. Voltage transformer circuits for relaying and metering shall be protected by fuses. All fuses shall be HRC catridge type confirming to IS: 3703 mounted on plug in type fuse bases. The short time fuse rating of fuses shall be not less than 9 KA. Fuse carrier base shall have imprints of the fuse rating and voltage. A D.C. operated novolt, auxiliary relay provided with hand reset reverse flag and two set of self reset N/C contracts with test push button shall be provided in the operating circuit of each control and relay panel to supervise the breaker control supply. One N/C contact shall be used for visual alarm and the other N/C contact shall be used for audible alarm and shall be connected to the alarm bus of the annunciation scheme. A.D.C. operated novoltage auxiliary relay provided with hand reset reserve flag indicator and two sets of self reset N/C contacts with test push button shall be provided in the main alarm bus to supervise the alarm but supply. One N/C contact shall be used for visual alarm and the other for audible alarm. The visual and audible alarm of alarm bus fail and those of incoming D.C. bus fail shall be common and shall be operated by 240 V single phase A.C. auxiliary supply as described in the Specification. (** DC sources supervision relays are to be mounted in the panel) A.C. CIRCUIT 240 volts, single phase, A.C. auxiliary supply to the control and relay board will be fed

from A.C. distribution board through a suitable fuse switch provided thereof. A continuous A.C. bus shall be provided at the control and relay board where from A.C. supply to each panel shall be teed off through a set of links. One 16 Amp rated M.C.B. shall be provided at the control and relay board for the incoming A.C. supply. A set of fuse and link rated for 6 amps for 3 pin plug circuit, 6 amps for 2 pin ply circuit and 6 amps for heater and illuminating lamp circuits shall also be provided. A hand reset type novolt auxiliary relay rated for 240 volts A.C. and provided for monitoring the auxiliary A.C. supply from D.C. operated facial annunciation scheme. 2.13 MCBs The incoming DC supply sources (source I and source II )circuits in the control and relay panels shall be controlled by required Two pole DC MCBs. In each control and relay panel there shall be separate DC MCB as incoming to the panels and the sub circuits shall be controlled by HRC fuses of different circuits having both + ve and ve control.The incoming MCBs also followed by HRC fuses for better protection. The ratings of the MCBs are to be designed to take care of the continuous rating and also during short ckt or in the event of faults. For AC incoming circuits and other distributed circuits circuits also to be provided with MCB of proper ratings. INDICATING LAMPS. 5/7 Watt Indicating cluster LED type Lamps shall be provided on the control panel mounting with rear terminal connections. Lamps shall be provided with series connected resister preferably built in the lamp assembly. Lamps shall have translucent lamp covers to difuse lights coloured red,green,amber,clear white or blue as specified as per the following:

Function 1.

Quantity

Colour of lens Blue

2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Circuit Breaker spring 1 No. charged/normal pressure Indication. Circuit Breaker trip circuit 2 Nos. Healthy indication. Circuit Breaker Low Air 1 No.(where Pressure indication necessary Incoming D.C. fail 2 Nos. Indication. A. C. fail indication. 1 No. P. T. supply indication. 3 Nos.(where necessary)

White White White White Red/Yellow/ Blue.

7. Indication lamps for CB closing ,opening Isolator closing and opening 8. Auto trip 1 No. 9. Protection on Transfer Mode 1 No. 10. CB on Local/Remote 2 Nos

Red and Green Amber White White

All the indicating lamps under (1) and (2) shall be provided with push button control. All the lamps shall be connected to the auxiliary D.C. supply of the substation except Sl.No 4 and Sl. No.6 which should be connected to the auxiliary A.C. supply and P.T. secondary supply. The lamps shall be suitable for switch board purpose and shall be of low watt consumption. Lamp and lenses shall be interchangeable and easily replaceable from the front of the panel.Tools if required for replacing the bulbs and lenses shall aalso be included in the scope of supply. The indicating lamps with resistors shall withstand 120% of rated voltage on a continuous basis. In initial supply, 20% of the lamps actually used on the switch boards and 10% of the lamp covers used shall be supplied in excess to serve as spares. TEST BLOCKS Switchboard type, back connected, test blocks with contacts shall be provided with links or other devices for shorting terminals of C.T. leads before interrupting testing instruments in the circuit without causing open circuit of the C.T. The potential testing studs shall preferably be housed in narrow recesses of the, block molding insulation to prevent accidental shortcircuit across the studs. All Test Blocks for meters, relays, etc. shall be placed as close to the respective equipment as possible. NAME PLATES & MARKING OF IDENTITY All equipments,instruments, relays and such other similar electrical devices mounted on the front and rear side as well as mounted inside control and relay panels shall be provided with name plates bearing the manufacturers name, serial number and the electrical rating data. All front mounted equipment shall also be provided at the rear with individual name plates engraved with tag numbers corresponding to the one shown in the panel internal wiring to facilitate easy tracing of the wiring. Each equipment and meter shall be prominently marked with the quantity measured e.g. KV,A,MW,MVAR, etc. All relays and other devices shall be clearly marked with manufacturers name,type,sl No & electrical rating. Name plates shall be made out of nonrusting metal or 3 ply lamicoid. Name plate shall be black with white engraving lettering. Each switch shall bear clear inscription identifying its function e.g. BREAKER 52A,SYNCHRONISING etc. Similar inscription shall also be provided on each device whose function is not otherwise identified. Switches also have clear inscription for each position indicating e.g. TRIPNEUTRALCLOSE,ONOFF,RYBOFF etc.All panel shall be provided with name plate mounted inside the panel bearing LOA NO. & Date,Name of the substation & Feeder and reference drawing number.

Control Switches
The control switches shall be of rotary back connected type, having cam operated contact mechanism. Contact mechanism stages shall be protected by transparent non- inflammable cover of moulded dielectric material. The number way indicated is approximate one and will be finalized after detailed design keeping sufficient spare (at least 20%).

Type of Switch Circuit breaker Control Switch

Specific Requirement 1) 3 position with spring return to Neutral from both Close and Trip positions. 2) Shall have pistol grip handles and the handle shall turn clockwise f o r closing operations and anti- clockwise for tripping operations. 3) Red and Green escutcheon plates shall be provided to indicate ON and OFF operations of the switch even when the handle has returned to the normal position after the operation has been carried out. 4) The control springs shall be strong enough to prevent any inadvertent operation due to light touch. 5) The switches would be provided with lost motion and sequence device. 6) The number of ways shall be such as to leave at least 20% spare contacts of each type.

Isolator Control Switch

1) 3 position pistol grip type with spring return to neutral and lost m o t i o n device. 2) Escutcheon plates shall be provided

Bus PT selector switch Parameter Selection Switch

3 position, oval head, stay put type 4 position, oval head, stay put type

INCOMING D.C. FAIL ALARM SCHEME Control and Relay Board shall have a common Incoming D.C. Fail alarm scheme operated by 240 V single phase A.C. auxiliary supplies for audible as well as visual alarm in case of failure of D.C. incoming supply to the board. All auxiliary relays, test relays, canceling, resetting and testing push buttons, alarm bells etc. required to render the annunciation system operative as above shall be considered to be within the scope of the tender.Separate scheme for each source of DC supply shall be considered. INCOMING A.C FAIL ALARM SCHEME Control and Relay Board shall have a common Incoming A.C. Fail alarm scheme operated by 240 V D.C. auxiliary supply for audible as well as visual alarm in case of failure of A.C. incoming supply to the board. INDICATING INSTRUMENTS AND METERS 1- All electrical indicating instruments shall be of digital Type suitable for flush mounting 2- Instruments shall have 4 digit display, display height being not less than25 mm. 3- Instrument shall confirm to relevant IS and shall have an accuracy class of 1.0 or better. For energy meters it should be of minimum 0.2. watt and VAR meters shall have an indication of (+) and () to indicate EXPORT and INPORT respectively

Digital voltage and frequency meters shall be of class 0.5 and shall have digital display of 5 and 4 digits respectively, with display size, not less than 25 mm height.

5 All instrument shall be switchboard type, back connected suitable for flush mounting and provided with dust tight cases for tropical use with dull black enamel finish. 6 All fixing screws, nuts and treated parts shall be designed to Indian Standards. 7 All instruments shall have a practicable laboratory means of adjustment of accuracy. The limits of error shall be those permissible for industrial grade instruments of switch board type. The calibration of the instruments shall function satisfactorily when mounted on steel panels or alternatively magnetically shielded instruments shall be used. 8 Instruments shall be capable of indicating freely when operated continuously at any temperature from 0 to 50 deg. C. 9 All circuits of instruments shall be capable of withstanding the effect of shock vibration and humidity and a dielectric test of 2500 volts r.m.s to ground for one minute as per relevant BSS/ISS MW INDICATOR In all the 33KV, 132 KV,220,400 KV lines and transformer feeders, indicating MW meters with M.D.I. (three) element type shall be mounted on the front side of the control panels to indicate the instantaneous MW flowing. The MW meters shall be connected to the measuring C.T. core. Scale range for line feeders shall be 2000200 MW and for transformer feeders 0150 MW or as suitable for the proposed system. MVAR INDICATOR In all the 400 KV, 220KV. 132 KV line feeders indicating MVAR meters shall be mounted on the front side of the control panel to indicate the instaneous MVAR following through the feeder in either direction. The scale should be center zero. The MVAR meters shall be connected to the measuring C.T. core. The scale shall be 2000200 MVAR or as suitable for the proposed system Relays

General Requirements
1 All electro mechanical relays (auxiliary and tripping relays shall conform to the requirements of IS:3231/ICE60255 and all Main numerical relays shall confirm to ICE61850 and other applicable standards for future SCADA purpose. Relays shall be suitable for flush or semi flush mounting on the front with connections from the rear. 2 All protective relays shall be in draw out or plugin type/modular cases with proper testing facilities. Necessary test plugs/test handles shall be supplied loose and shall be included in contractors scope of supply. All AC operated relays shall be suitable for operation at 50 Hz AC Voltage operated relays shall be suitable for 110 Volts VT secondary and current operated relays for 1 Amp CT secondary. All DC operated relays and timers shall be designed for the DC voltage specified, and shall operate satisfactorily between 80% and 110% of rated voltage. Voltage operated relays shall have adequate thermal capacity for continuous operation.

The protective relays shall be suitable for efficient and reliable operation of the protection scheme described in the specification. Necessary auxiliary relays and timers required for interlocking schemes for multiplying of contacts suiting contact duties of; protective relays and monitoring of control supplies and circuits, lockout relay monitoring circuits etc. also required for the complete protection schemes described in the specification shall be provided. All protective relays shall be provided with at least two pairs of potential free isolated output contacts. Auxiliary relays and timers shall have pairs of contacts as required to complete the scheme, contacts shall be silver faced with spring action. Relays case shall have adequate number of terminals for making potential free external connections to the relays coils and contacts, including spare contacts. 5 All protective relays, auxiliary relays and timers except the lock out relays and interlocking relays specified shall be provided with selfrest type4 contacts. All protective relays and timers shall be provided with externally hand reset positive action operation indicators with inscription. All protective relays which do not have builtinhandreset operation indicators shall have additional auxiliary relays with operating indicators (Flag relays) for this purpose. Similarly, separate operating indicator (auxiliary relays) shall also be provided in the trip circuits of protections located outside the board such as Buchholtz relays, oil and winding temperature protection, sudden pressure devices,Oil surge relay and fire protection etc. 6 Timers shall be of the electromagnetic or solid state type. Pneumatic timers are not acceptable. Short time delays in terms of milliseconds may be obtained by using copper slugs on auxiliary relays. In such case it shall be ensured that the continuous rating of the relay is not affected. Time delays in terms of milliseconds obtained by the external capacitor resistor combination is not preferred and shall be avoided to the extend possible. 7 No control relays which shall trip the power circuit breaker when the relays is deenergised shall be employed in the circuits. 8 Provision shall be made for easy isolation of trip circuits of each relay for the purpose of testing and maintenance. 9 Auxiliary sealinunits provided on the protective relays shall preferably be of shunt reinforcement type. If series relays are used the following shall be strictly ensured. a. The operating time of the series sealinunit shall be sufficiently shorter than that of the trip coil or trip relay in series with which it operates to ensure definite operation of the flag indicator of the relay. b. Sealinunit shall obtain adequate current for operation when one or more relays operate simultaneously. c. Impedance of the sealinunit shall be small enough to permit satisfactory operation of the trip coil on trip relays when the D.C. Supply Voltage is minimum. 10 11 All protective relays and alarm relays shall be provided with one extra isolated pair of contacts wired to terminals exclusively for future use. The setting ranges of the relays offered, if different from the ones specified shall also be acceptable if they meet the functional requirements. Any alternative/additional protections or relays considered necessary for providing complete effective and reliable protection shall also be; offered separately. The acceptance of this alternative/additional equipment shall lie with the OPTCL.

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The bidder shall include in his bid a list of installations where the relays quoted have been in satisfactory operation.

14 All relays and their drawings shall have phase indications as RRed, Yyellow, Bblue. 15 Wherever numerical relays are used, the scope shall include the following: a) Necessary software and hardware to up/down load the data to/from the relay from/to the personal computer installed in the substation. However, the supply of PC is also covered under this clause. b) The relay shall have suitable communication facility for future connectivity to SCADA. The relay shall be capable of supporting IEC 61850 protocol.

Protection System Protection discrimination

On the occurrence of a fault on the power system network the high speed discriminating protection systems (main protection) shall rapidly detect the fault and initiate the opening of only those circuit breakers which are necessary to disconnect the faulted electrical element from the network. Protection equipment associated with adjacent electrical elements may detect the fault, but must be able to discriminate between an external fault and a fault on the electrical element which it is designed to protect. Sequential time delayed tripping is not permitted except in the following specific circumstances: Protection for short connections between post current transformer housings and circuit breakers when the technical advantages of complete overlapping of the protection are outweighed by economic considerations, (i.e. short zone protection) Operation of time graded backup protection takes place as a result of either the complete failure of the communication links associated with the main protection systems, or the fault resistance is substantially greater than a value which can be detected by main protection systems. Operation of line backup protection to disconnect primary system faults in the case of a circuit breaker failing to operate, (i.e. circuit breaker failure protection) All backup protection systems shall be able to discriminate with main protection systems, circuit breaker fail protection and with other backup protection systems installed elsewhere on the transmission system.

Protection settings
A list of the settings to be applied to all protection systems together with all associated calculations, shall be provided for review and approval not less than three months prior to the first programmed date for commissioning. The settings for line protection shall be such as to permit correct operation of the protection for earth faults with up to 100 ohms fault resistance. Any limitations imposed on the power system as a result of the settings proposed shall be explicitly stated. In the absence of system data required for calculation purposes, assumptions may be made providing these are

clearly identified as such in the relevant calculations.

Fault clearing time

The protection equipment shall be capable of achieving the following discriminative fault clearing times, inclusive of circuit breaker and signaling times: One millisecond for all electrical elements whose boundary connections are defined by circuit breakers located within a given substation. For interconnecting tie lines in which the boundary connections of the electrical element being protected are defined by circuit breakers located in adjacent switching stations, an additional 20 ms fault clearance time is allowed at the substation remote from the fault point. This additional fault clearance time is permitted subject to the requirement that the positive sequence impedance of the primary circuit from the switching terminal to the point of fault shall not be less than ten ohms. The Contractor shall supply the Project Manager with details of the operating times under defined conditions of all protection equipment proposed. Any limitation in operating time performance shall be declared by the Contractor, e.g. end of zone faults where distance protection is applied, high resistance faults, faults at high X/R with significant DC component and time constant, faults coincident with communication channel noise. The Contractor shall specify the increase in operating time which could occur under such conditions.

Signalling equipment operating times:

For design purposes the operating times of signalling equipment to provide a contact signal for use with associated distance protection shall be assumed to be as follows: Intertripping (transfer trip) not greater than: Permissive transfer trip: Blocking signal operate time: Blocking signal reset time: 20 milliseconds 15 to 20 milliseconds 10 milliseconds 10 milliseconds

Protection Schemes

Line protection
General requirement for line protection relays.
The line protection relays shall protect the line and clear faults on line in the shortest possible time with reliability, selectivity and full sensitivity to all types of line fault. The general concept for 1) 220kV levels is to have primary and backup protection systems having equal performance requirement especially in respect of time as would be provided by two Main protections called MainI and MainII. It is desirable that MainI and MainII protection should work on two different principles of operation and one back up dir O/C & E/F protn is envisaged. 220kV lines Main I Numerical non switched distance protection meeting performance levels.

 Main II N u m e r i c a l n o n switched phase comparison, carrier aided or of numerical distance using a different principle of operation Phase segregated teleprotection facility Power swing detection blocking and tripping Synchronizing. Line overvoltage (220kV line 200kM long) Numerical directional overcurrent and earth fault Three phase to ground Numerical local breaker back up Pole discrepancy protection

D i s t a n c e Protection Relay (Numerical IEC61850 Protocol compliance)

The relay shall: 1. Be static and modular in construction

2. Have high speed phase segregated non switched distance relays for three phase systems to clear all type of line faults within the set reach of the relay. 3. Cover at least two line sections with 15% in hand margin.

4. Measure all type of faults without the need to switch the measuring elements to the faulty phase or phases. Zone switching to extend the reach of the measuring elements is not allowed. The reach of each zone shall be independently and individually adjustable and shall have settings in steps of 1%. Memory circuits with defined characteristics shall be provided in all three phases to ensure correct operation during closeup 3 phase faults and other adverse conditions. Independent zero sequence compensation shall be provided for each zone. 5. Have reverse reaching zone operating times as given in Table. The Carrier transmission time has been considered as 20 ms. 6. Have stepped timedistance characteristics and at least two directional and one non directional independently variable time graded distance protection zones to cover two adjacent line sections. 7. Have a maximum Zone 1 operating time from fault initiation to trip impulse from relay (complete protection time excluding applicable carrier time) under source to line impedance ratios and under all possible combinations of fault with CVT being used on the line (with all filters included) and at 50% of Zone I reach as follows: For S.I.R. 0.01 to 4: 30 ms at the nearest end and 50 ms at far end.

For S.I.R. 4 to 15: 30 ms at the nearest end and 50 ms at far end. Carrier transmission time is considered as 20 ms. Any reduction in carrier transmission time shall be reflected in the reduction of maximum operating time. The trip times should not be affected by DC offset and under frequency up to 47Hz. 8. Have a reach for Zones 1, 2 and 3 to cover line length as per 3 above. The relay shall have an adjustable characteristic angle setting range of 30 to 75 degree, preferably adjustable dynamically following the load conditions of the power system. It should be ensured that this

long coverage is consistent with limitations imposed by heavy loading and sound phase component of fault current. If so characterised by system requirements, it shall be possible to have circular characteristics of offset Mho type & Quadrilateral shaped. If the characteristics of starting relays are such that it cannot pick up because of very low infeed, under voltage relays may also be used as supplementary relays. 9. Have two independent continuously variable time setting range of 03 seconds for Zone 2 and 05 seconds for Zone 3. 10. 11. 12. 13. Have a maximum resetting time of less than 3 milliseconds. Have facilities for offset features with adjustment of at least 20% of Zone 3 setting. Have automatic residual compensation capabilities variable from 30150%. Be such that the setting / reach should not be affected by mutual coupling effect of double circuit line or nearby paralleled circuits. The proof of compensation should be given if provided.

14. Operate instantaneously when circuit breaker is closed to zero volt 3 phase fault. 15. 16. Be suitable for single and three phase tripping. Have a continuous current rating of twice rated current. The voltage circuit shall be capable of continuous operation at 1.2 times rated voltage. The relay shall also be capable of carrying a high short time current of 70 times rated current without damage for a period of one second. Be selective between internal and external faults. Incorporate three separate high speed trip relays for single phase faults and a fourth high speed trip relay for multi phase faults. Each of these shall have adequate contacts to meet the complete scheme requirements. The relay shall conform to the requirements for tripping relays specified in this specification.

17. 18.

19. Include power swing blocking protection which shall: be of triple pole type have suitable setting rage to encircle the distance protection described above. 20. have a continuously adjustable time delay on pick up of setting range 02 seconds. block tripping during power swing conditions.

Include fuse failure protection which shall: monitor all the three fuses of CVT and associated cable against open circuit. inhibit trip circuits on operation and initiate annunciation. have an operating time less than seven milliseconds. remain inoperative for system earth faults.

21. 22.

Have integrated two stage over voltage protection facilities. Shall have comprehensive self test feature including diagnostics at power up. conductor detection

23. Broken facility.

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Distance to fault locator

Distance to fault locator

General
Distance to fault locators shall be the inbuilt features of the distance relay for both Main I and Main II, shall be capable of locating phase to phase and phase to earth faults. They shall also preferably be capable of locating open circuit faults. 1. Have built-in display feature.

2. Display directly in percent of line length or kilometers without the requirement for further calculation. 3. Have an accuracy of 3% or better for all types of faults and fault levels. This level of accuracy should not be impaired under the following conditions: 4. Have transmission Presence of remote end in feed. Predominant DC component in fault current high fault arc resistance severe CVT transients facility for remote data

5. Meet IEC 255 Part IV or other equivalent internationally recognised standard. 1. Have mutual zero sequence compensation unit if fault locator is to be used on double circuit transmission line.Table 16.3.2 Operating Times for Distance Protection
Operating Time (ms)
20 30 50

SIR = ZS/ZL)
10 30 60

Fault Position % of Impedance Setting

5 to 20 10 to 60 1 to 95

SIR = System Impedance ratio. Zs = Source impedance. Zl = Relay setting impedance

Line over voltage protection relay

The line over voltage protection (59L) relay shall: 1. 2. Monitor all three phases Have two independent (59L1 and 59L2) stages

3. Have an adjustable setting range of 100170% of rated voltage with an adjustable time delay range of 1 to 60 seconds for the first stage. (59L1) 4. Have an adjustable setting range of 100170% of rated voltage with an adjustable time having setting range 100200 seconds for the second stage. (59L2) 5. Be tuned to power frequency

6. Be provided with separate operation indicators (flag target) for each stage relays. (59L1 and 59L2) 7. Have a dropoff to pickup ratio greater than 95%. Integral of overvoltage feature is also

acceptable.

Local Breaker Backup protection relay (50 LBB) for circuit breakers
The local breaker backup protection relay shall: 1. 2. 3. Be of triple pole type Have an operating time of less than 15 milliseconds. Have a resetting time of less than 15 milliseconds.

4. Have three over current elements. Each element shall be arranged to get individual initiation from the corresponding phase of line protection. 5. 6. Be of solidstate type having a setting range of 580% of rated current Have a continuous thermal withstand twice the rated current irrespective of the setting.

7. Have three separate timers, one for each phase with continuously adjustable setting range of 0.11 seconds. 8. Have necessary auxiliary relays to make a comprehensive scheme.

Unit and backup protection

Power system elements and the network shall be provided with independent high speed discriminative protection systems. Duplicate schemes (Main I and Main II) shall be provided for all 220kV systems. Protection schemes of different philosophy (Main I and Main II or Main and Backup) shall preferably be fed from different DC supplies when available in the substation. This shall include energisation of trip coil circuits in 220 kV breakers. Protection equipment shall not initiate a trip signal following the normal and correct discharge operation of one or more surge arresters. Measurement functions relays must be achieved through electronic circuits. Auxiliary relays, repeat relays, trip relays and any other simple auxiliary or contact multiplication function may be based on standard attracted armature or other electromechanical techniques. Relays based on numerical design technique shall constitute all primary protections. The Employers intends to avail the improved benefits in the functionality, design, reliability and cost effectiveness of integrated substation control systems in future for which relays with numeric design only shall be required. It is the responsibility of the Contractor to demonstrate that all relay equipment offered has a reasonable level of in-service experience. For numerical relays, the following conditions apply: 1. The Bidder must be able to demonstrate that a minimum of 10 relays of each type offered have been in full service without relay failures for a minimum of three years in two different countries, one of which may be the country of manufacture. Experience involving trial installations is not acceptable. 2. The Bidder must include a statement of the number of years of guaranteed manufacturing and parts support which will be provided for the relays offered. 3. The Bidder is be required to state the full firmware version together with the version of relays for which experience records are offered. For relays which are provided with communication facilities, the communications facility should allow all information which is available locally at the relay front panel to be accessed remotely.

It should also be possible to carry out bulk transfer of settings and fault record information using the appropriate PC based software.

Protection discrimination
On the occurrence of a fault on the power system network the high speed discriminating protection systems (main protection) shall rapidly detect the fault and initiate the opening of only those circuit breakers which are necessary to disconnect the faulted electrical element from the network. Protection equipment associated with adjacent electrical elements may detect the fault, but must be able to discriminate between an external fault and a fault on the electrical element which it is designed to protect. Sequential time delayed tripping is not permitted except in the following specific circumstances: Protection for short connections between post current transformer housings and circuit breakers when the technical advantages of complete overlapping of the protection are outweighed by economic considerations, (i.e. shortzone protection) Operation of time graded backup protection takes place as a result of either the complete failure of the communication links associated with the main protection systems, or the fault resistance is substantially greater than a value which can be detected by main protection systems. Operation of line backup protection to disconnect primary system faults in the case of a circuit breaker failing to operate, (i.e. circuit breaker failure protection) All backup protection systems shall be able to discriminate with main protection systems, circuit breaker fail protection and with other backup protection systems installed elsewhere on the transmission system.

Insulation
The rated insulation voltage of circuits connected to current transformers of high impedance relays shall be 1000 V. All other circuits shall have an insulation voltage of 2500V. All open contacts of the protection system shall withstand a voltage of 1000V. The protection system shall comply with the dielectric test requirements of IEC 2555. The test voltage shall be selected according to the rated insulation voltage of the circuits being tested form SeriesC of Table1 of IEC 2555. The protection system shall comply with the impulse test requirements of IEC 2555 with test voltage of 5kV.

Busbar protection (Latest version numerical having IEC61850 protocol compliance)

Bus bar protection schemes shall be provided for each main bus of 400kV and 220kV switchyard. The overall scheme shall be engineered so as to ensure that operation of any one out of two schemes connected to main faulty bus shall result in tripping of the same. However in case of transfer bus, where provided, only one busbar protection scheme shall be required. Each busbar protection scheme shall 1. Be of modular construction and have features of self monitoring facility to ensure maximum availability of scheme. The scheme shall be static/ microprocessor/ Numerical based. 2. Have maximum operating time up to trip impulse to trip relay for all types of faults of

15 milli seconds at 5 times setting value. 3. 4. 5. Operate selectively for each busbar. Give hundred percent security up to 40kA fault level. Incorporate a check feature.

6. Incorporate continuous supervision for CT secondaries against any possible open circuit and if it occurs, shall render the relevant zone of protection inoperative and initiate alarm. 7. 8. Not give false operation during normal load flow in busbars. Incorporate clear zone indication.

9. Be of phase segregated and triple pole type and provide independent zones of protection for each bus (including transfer bus if any). If a bus section is provided then each side of the bus section shall have separate busbar protection scheme. 10. Include individual high speed hand reset tripping relays for each feeder, including future ones. 11. Be of low/medium impedance biased differential type and have operate and restraint characteristics. 12. 13. Be transient free in operation Include continuous DC supplies supervision.

14. Shall include multitap auxiliary CT's for each bay including future bays as per SLD and also include necessary CT switching relays wherever CT switching is involved. 15. 16. Include protection 'in/out' switch for each zone with at least six contacts for each switch. Shall have CT selection incomplete alarm wherever CT switching is involved.

17. Have necessary auxiliary relays to make a comprehensive scheme. At existing substations busbar scheme with independent zones for each bus will be available. All necessary coordination for 'CT' and 'DC' interconnections between existing schemes (panels) and the bays proposed under the scope of this contract shall be fully covered by the bidder. Any auxiliary relays, trip relays, flag relays required to facilitate the operation of bays covered under this contract shall be fully covered in the scope of the bidder.

Tripping relay (86)

High speed tripping relay shall: 1. 2. 3. Be instantaneous (operating time not to exceed 10 milliseconds). Reset within 20 milliseconds. Not self-resetting. Be DC operated

4. Have adequate contacts to meet the requirement of scheme, other functions such as auto reclose relay, LBB relay as well as cater to associated equipment such as event logger, disturbance recorder, fault locator, etc. 5. Be provided with operation indicators for each element/coil.

Flag relays
These shall have:

1. 2. 3.

Hand reset flag indication Two elements Four contacts (NO or NC or combination as required), for each element/coil.

Trip circuit supervision relay

The relay shall be capable of monitoring the healthiness of each `phase' trip coil and associated trip circuit of circuit breaker during `ON' and `OFF' conditions. The relay shall have adequate contacts for providing connections to alarm and event logger. The relay shall have time delay on dropoff of not less than 200 milliseconds and be provided with operation indications for each phase.

DC Supply supervision relay

The relay shall be capable of monitoring the DC supply to which it is connected and indicating failure. It shall have adequate potential free contacts to meet the scheme requirement. The relay shall have a `time delay on dropoff' of not less than 100 milliseconds and be provided with operation indicator/flag.

Bus coupler / transfer bus coupler protection

The protection scheme for the above are to be provided with directional numerical over current and earth fault protection scheme . The relay shall be latest version numerical and IEC 61850 compliant for future SCADA purpose.The details as indicated under unit back up protection relay. All 220 kV substations shall be of Double Main (DM) or Double Main and Transfer (DMT) busbar configuration and shall be provided with a single bus coupler circuit breaker. In addition 220 kV DMT busbar configurations shall be provided with a transfer bus coupler circuit breaker. The required protection equipment for these breakers comprises overcurrent and earth fault relays. These relays shall comply with the requirements for backup over current and earth fault protection as described elsewhere in this section, except that the relays shall not be directional. The earth fault element shall have a current setting range of at least 20 80 per cent in six equal steps. All 132 and 33 kV substations shall be of Single Main and Transfer (SMT) busbar configuration and a bus section isolator. Overcurrent and earth fault protection, complying with the requirements as given elsewhere in this section but without directional feature, shall be provided. In DMT/SMT configurations, whenever the main breaker of a feeder or transformer is substituted by the bus coupler or transfer bus coupler breaker, a facility for switching over of the trip function of the feeder or transformer relays from the main breaker to the bus coupler or transfer bus coupler breaker, shall be provided through provision of a lockable protection transfer switch. The provision of a key interlock on the above switch is to be so arranged that at one time only one feeder or transformer can be taken to transfer mode.

Circuit breaker monitoring auxiliary relays

All circuit breakers shall be provided with several relay contacts for annunciation of circuit breaker conditions such as : Low air/hydraulic oil/gas pressure.

 Lockout conditions due to abnormally low air/hydraulic oil/gas pressure. Pole discrepancy trip.

Compressor/hydraulic pump trouble. The exact requirements for this shall be available in the circuit breaker drawings to be provided by the manufacturer. The programmable Inputs/Outputs of the numeric relays shall be used as much as possible for providing annunciation in the control room for such cases. In case this is found inadequate, suitable auxiliary flag relays may be provided in the relay panels to provide annunciation.

Disturbance recorder (Required for 400 and 220 KV substation)

General
Where required disturbance recorders shall be provided separately. Integrated out put from the relays memory is also acceptable. Disturbance recorders shall be microprocessor based and shall be used to record the graphic form of instantaneous values of voltage and current in all three phases, open delta voltage and neutral current, open or closed position of relay contracts and breakers during system disturbances. Necessary auxiliary VTs, to generate open delta voltage, shall be supplied by the Bidder. The Bidder shall furnish along with the offer a typical printout for simulated conditions, on original paper. The disturbance recorder shall be an individual acquisition unit, one for each feeder, and shall have at least 8 analogue and 16 event channels for acquisition of fault data and events. The restitution unit, printer, EGA/VGA screen and key board shall be common for the entire substation. The acquisition unit shall acquire fault data and store either on portable magnetic cassettes or floppy discs, or instantaneously transfer data to the restitution unit for storage in solid state nonvolatile memory. The restitution unit shall be capable of reading fault data from the magnetic cassettes or floppy discs or from its own memory, as the case may be, and controlling the printer to give the graphic form whenever desired by the operator. The acquisition units shall be located in the protection panels of the respective feeders and the restitution unit along with the printer shall be located suitably within the substation control room. Only one printer for the entire substation is required for disturbance recording purposes. The disturbance recorder system shall have nonvolatile memory of the last ten faults of at least 1.6 second duration each.

Features of the disturbance recorder.

The disturbance recorder shall incorporate the features as described below:

Software stability
The operation of the equipment shall be based on programme stored in nonvolatile solid state memory. The programme shall be stable and no inadvertent change of programme shall occur.

7.13.4

Reliability

Large scale integrated circuits shall be used as far as possible to reduce the number of

components and interconnections and the amount of wiring. The components used shall be subjected to strict quality control which shall include screening of components by heat soaking and testing their functioning prior to assembly.

7.13.5

Simplicity of maintenance and repair

The number and type of modules employed shall be minimised. The modules shall be of plugin type and shall be easily accessible for maintenance and repair wherever required.

7.13.6

Immunity from the effects of hostile environment

The equipment shall be designed to operate satisfactorily even when subject to the effects of severely hostile electrical environment such as interference signals arising from switching transients. The equipment shall be mounted in self contained, free standing cubicles and shall be of dust, vermin and rodent proof construction. Ventilation arrangements shall be provided if warranted by power dissipation level of the equipment.

7.13.7

Interface with PC

The disturbance recorder should have an interface arrangement for the transfer and storage of data to PC through its serial port. Necessary PC, software, special cables etc. shall be part of the disturbance recorder and should be included in the Bid. PC based user friendly, disturbance recorder evaluation software shall be provided for the analysis and evaluation of the record data made available in the PC under WINDOWS environment. The software features shall include: Repositioning of analogue and digital signals Selection and amplification of time and amplitude scales of each analogue and digital channel Calculation of MAX/MIN frequency and phase difference values Recording of MAX/MIN values etc. of analogue channels Grouping of signals to be drawn on the same axis etc.,

Listing and numbering of all analogue and digital channels and current, voltage, frequency and phase difference values at the time of fault/tripping.

7.13.8

Power supply

Disturbance recorder equipment shall be suitable for operation from 220V DC or 110V DC supplies as available at substation. Voltage variation of +10% and 20% can be expected. Any other power supply that may be required for proper functioning of the equipment including the printer shall be derived by the Bidder from his own equipment and shall form an integral part of the disturbance recorder system.

7.13.9

Alarms and indications

All external and internal faults in the disturbance recorder equipment such as power supply fail, printer faulty, paper exhausted, processor/memory fail etc. are required to be indicated by means of light emitting diodes on the front of panels of the equipment if type 2 disturbance recorders are offered, or on the front of panel of the restitution unit if type 1 disturbance recorders are offered.

7.13.10

Scan rate

The frequency response shall be DC on lower side and 250 Hz or better on upper side. The acquisition unit shall have a scan rate of 1000 Hz/channel or better.The equipment shall have as an inherent part of it, starting sensors based on over voltage, rate of change of current, and rate of change of frequency. These starting sensors, when picked up, shallstart the disturbance recorders to give out the graphic form of analogue and event signals, in the case of type 2 disturbance recorders. If type 1 disturbance recorders are offered the starting sensors, on pick up, shall preserve the fault data acquired during the period of system disturbance, including pre fault and post fault time, on magnetic cassettes, floppy disks,CD or solid state memory of restitution unit, as the case may be. Preserved fault data shall not be erased other than by the operator. Erasing arrangement shall be provided in the restitution unit.

7.13.11

Starting sensors

The equipment shall have inherent to it starting sensors based on over voltage, rate of change of current and rate of change of frequency. The starting sensors on pickup shall preserve the fault data acquired during the period of system disturbance including prefault and post fault time on magnetic cassettes,CD or floppy diskettes or solid state restitution unit as the case may be.

7.13.12

Prefault and postfault time

Prefault time shall not be less than 160 ms and the post fault time adjustable at a minimum of two seconds and a maximum of not less than five seconds. If another system disturbance occurs during one postfault time, the recorder shall also be able to record the same.

7.13.13

Amplitude and event resolution

Amplitude resolution shall not be less than eight bit. Event resolution shall be 2 ms or better.

7.13.14
1. 2. 3.

Print out

The print out shall contain the following: Feeder identity. Date and time (in hour, minute and second up to 100th of a second). Identity of trigger source.

4. Graphic form of analogue and event signals of all the channels. The print out shall be clear and legible without the help of looking glass or any such device. Minimum acceptable paper width shall be 81/2 inches. (216 mm approx.)

7.13.15

Type and quantity of paper

Printer shall use plain paper. The Bidder shall provide as part of his scope of supply sufficient consumable for 6 months operation. The arrangement of feeding and removing paper rolls shall be quick and simple.

7.13.16

Time generator

Each disturbance recorder shall have its own time generator. The facility shall exist to synchronise the time generator from station time synchronisation equipment having output of following types at 30 min interval

1. Voltage signal 3 to 50V continuously settable, with 50 ms minimum pulse duration. 2. Potential free contact (Minimum pulse duration of 50 ms.) 3. IRIGB 4. RS232C At substations where station time synchronisation equipment is not available, time generator of any one of the disturbance recorders can be taken as master. The facility shall exist to synchronise the time generators of other disturbance recorders and event loggers in that station with respect to it. The recorder shall give annunciation in case of absence of `Sync'. pulse within a specified time. The clock of the time generator shall be such that, the drift is limited to 0.5 seconds per day, if allowed to run without synchronisation. Facility shall exist to display the time in hours, minutes and seconds on the front of panel.

7.13.17

Inputs

The equipment shall be suitable for inputs from current transformers with 1A rated secondary and capacitive voltage transformers with 63.5V (phase to neutral voltage) rated secondary. Any device required for processing of input signals in order to make them compatible to the equipment shall form an integral part of the equipment. However, such processing of input signals shall in no way distort its wave form. The equipment shall be carefully screened, shielded, earthed and protected as may be required for its safe functioning. The input circuits shall withstand the following tests. 5kV impulse test in accordance with IEC 225 PartIV. High frequency disturbance test in accordance with IEC 255 PartIV).

8.0

Event logger (**)

**As per the customers requirement All 400 and 220 KV substation shall have separate Event Logger panel provision.

8.1

General

The event logger shall be used to record the open and close states of switch yard equipment, relays and changes of alarms. The function of the equipment should be based on programmes stored in it. The stored programmes should permit some degree of flexibility of operation. Facility should be provided to erase the existing programme and reprogram allowing changes to be made very easily. The number of modules and different types of modules should be minimised. The modules should be of plugin type and should be easily accessible to simplify maintenance and repair. The equipment should be designed to operate satisfactorily in severely hostile electrical environment such as in 400kV/220kV switchyard which are prone to various interference signals, typically from large switching transients. The equipment should be carefully screened, shielded, earthed and protected. Input/ Output circuits should withstand the following tests: Impulse test in accordance with IEC 255, PartIV.

 High frequency disturbance test in accordance with IEC 255, PartIV. Since the equipment will be used in dedicated nonattended situations, programme stability is vitally important. Programme must not be capable of being changed unintentionally during normal Operation

9.0

Synchronizing equipment

Where required synchronising equipment shall be provided along with this Contract.The synchronising instruments shall be mounted on a synchronising trolley. The trolley shall be equipped with double voltmeter, double frequency meter, synchroscope and lamps fully wired. The trolley shall be of mobile type with four rubber padding wheels capable of rotating in 360 degree around the vertical axis. Suitable bumpers with rubber padding shall be provided around the trolley to prevent any accidental damage to any panel in the control room while the trolley is in movement. The trolley shall have two metre long flexible cord fully wired to the instruments and terminated in a plug in order to facilitate connecting the trolley to any of the panels. The receptacle to accept the plug shall be provided on the panel. Synchronising check relay with necessary ancillary equipment shall be provided. This shall permit breakers to close after checking the requirements of synchronising of incoming and running supply. The phase angle setting shall not exceed 35 degree and have voltage difference setting not exceeding 10%. This relay shall have a response time of less than 200 milliseconds when the two system conditions are met within present limits and with the timer disconnected. The relay shall have a frequency difference setting not exceeding 0.45% at rated value and at the minimum time setting. The relay shall have a continuously adjustable time setting range of 0.53 seconds. A guard relay shall be provided to prevent a closing attempt by means of synchronising check relay when control switch is kept in closed position before the two systems are in synchronism. Suitable auxiliary voltage transformers, wherever necessary, shall also be provided for synchronising condition. In case the synchroscope is not continuously rated, a synchroscope cutoff switch shall be provided and an indicating lamp to indicate that the synchroscope is energised, shall also be provided. Each circuit for which a synchronous closure is required shall be provided with a lockable synchronizing selector switch which shall be used to select the voltage signals (incoming and running voltage) appropriate for that circuit. The provision of a key interlock shall ensure that at any one time only one feeder / transformer can be synchronized.

11.2 Bill of quantities for individual panels

DUPLEX PANEL - FOR 220 KV Sl.no.

Line protection panel (RPLNA)

Instrument Quantity (For each Bay)

CONTROL PART 1 Strip Mimic 2 36 way microprocessor based annunciator with repeat alarm contact and auxiliary relay 3 Semaphore indicators for earth switch 4 Control switch for circuit breaker 5 Control switches for isolators

1 set 1 set 1 no. 1 no. as per scheme

6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

Indicating lamps Push buttons Ammeter(Digital) with transducer Line voltmeter(Digital) with transducer (from 1-ph CVT) Wattmeter(Digital) with transducer Digital Freq. Meter.(Digital) Var meter(Digital) with transducer Synchronizing switch (lockable key type) Synchronizing socket Carrier selector switch DC source selector switch

as per scheme as per scheme 1 no. 1 no. 1 no. 1 no. 1 no. 1 no. 1 no. 1 no. 1 no.

RELAY PART 1 MainI

protection scheme (composite numerical distance protection relay with auto reclosing and check syncronising facility) MainII protection scheme(composite numerical distance protection or phase comparison relay with auto reclosing and check syncronising facility)

1 set

1 set

3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19

Composite numerical directional over current and earth fault relay.(selectable Features Dir & Non Dir) Over voltage/ Under voltage protection scheme (if not available in the mainI protection module) Selector switch for carrier in/out for mainI and mainII protection scheme Disturbance recorder (if not available in the distance protection or main protection module) Distanttofault locator for phase and earth faults(if not available in the distance protection or main protection CVT selecting relays or switches(depending on switching scheme) Test terminal blocks for MainI/ MainII/other protection relay Auxiliary relays for carrier supervision of MainI and Main II protection relays (depending on its application) Carrier receive lockout relay (depending on its application) Breaker failure protection scheme

1 set. 1 set 2 Nos. 1 set 1 set 1set 1 set for each module 1 set 1 set

1 set Trip circuit pre and post-supervision relays for trip coil I and II 1 set DC supply supervision relay 1 set 1 set Flag relays for circuit breaker trouble shooting Trip relays single/three phase for groupA Trip relays single/three phase for groupB Trip relays single/three phase for LBB Under Frequency Relay 1 set 1 set 1 set 1 set

11.5 T r a n s f e r bus coupler/Bus coupler and Bus bar (RPBNA) Protection panel
RELAY PART

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Composite numerical Directional Over current and earth fault protection (selectable Features Dir & Test terminal block for all relay. Trip circuit pre and post-supervision relays for trip coil I and II DC supply supervision relay Flag relays for circuit breaker trouble and status indication etc. Breaker failure protection scheme Trip relays single/three phase for groupA Trip relays single/three phase for groupB Bus bar differential relay for BusI Bus bar differential relay for BusII CT switching/selection relays(if required) relay Bus bar differential

1 set 1 set

1 set. 1 set 1 Set 1 set 1 set 1set 1 set for each module 1 set 1 set 1 set

13.0 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON PROTECTION RELAYS, SWITCHES ETC. 13.1 RELAYS: 1. All relays shall confirm to the requirements of IS: 3231/IEC60255 and IEC61850 protocol compliance. Relay shall be suitable for flush or semiflush mounting on the front with connections from the rear. 2. Shall be draw out or plug in type/modular cases with proper testing facilities. Necessary test plugs/test handles shall be supplied, which is in the scope of this contract. 3.The protective relay shall be suitable for efficient and reliable operation of the protection scheme as indicated in the specification. Necessary auxiliary relays etc for interlocking scheme, for multiplying contacts suiting for the scheme and monitoring of control supplies and circuits, lockout relay monitoring circuits etc. Auxiliary relays and timers shall have pairs of contacts as required to complete the scheme, contacts shall be silver faced with spring action. It shall have adequate numbers of terminals for making potential free external connection to the relay coils and contacts, including spare contacts. All the contacts of the auxiliary relays and timers except lock out type relays shall have self reset type contacts 4. No control relay which shall trip the power circuit breaker when the relay is deenrgised shall be employed in the circuit. 5. Provision shall be made for easy isolation of trip circuits of each relay for the purpose of testing and maintenance. 6. All protective relays and alarm relays shall be provided with one extra isolated pair of contacts wired to terminals exclusively for future use. 7. The bidder shall include in his bid a list of installations where the relays quoted have been in satisfactory operation. 8. The numerical relays shall include the followings: i) Necessary software and hardware to up/down load the datas to/from the relay from/to

the personal computer ( supply is in the scope of this contract.). ii) The relay shall have suitable c o m m u n i c a t i o n f a c i l i t i e s for future connectivity t o SCADA. The relay shall b e capable of supporting IEC 61850 protocol. Neither the interface hardware nor the software for connectivity to SCADA will form part of the scope of this specification. iii) In the numerical relays the features like disturbance recorder and event logging function as available in these relays shall be supplied. 13.2 A) Transmission Line protection: The line protection relays are required to protect the line and clear the faults on line within shortest possible time with reliability, selectivity and full sensitivity to all type of faults on lines. 1. The maximum f a u l t current could be as high as 40 KA and minimum f a u l t current could be as low as20% of rated current of the CT secondary. The starting and measuring relay characteristics should be satisfactory under these extremely varying conditions. 2. The protective relays shall be suitable for use with capacitor voltage transformer having no electronic damping and transient response as per IEC. 3. Disturbance recorder, Distance to fault locator, over voltage, auto reclose functions are integral functional part of the relay. 4. The following protection for line protection shall be provided. For 220 KV Main I scheme. Main II of Back up: KV. Main scheme. Back up: protection.

Numerical

distance

protection

Numerical distance protection scheme of a make different from that Main I. Directional over current and Earth fault protection. For 132 Numerical Directional distance over protection and Earth fault

current

MAINI & MAINII: 1. Shall be numerical type and shall be continuous self monitoring and diagnostic feature. 2. Shall be nonswitched type with separate measurements for all phase to Phase & phase to ground faults. 3. Shall have stepped time distance characteristics and a minimum of three independent zones & a zone for reverse reach.. 4. Shall have mho & quadrilateral (with site selection facilities) characteristics or other suitable characteristics for the above mentioned zones. 5. Shall have following maximum operating time (including trip relay time, if any) under given set of conditions and with CVT being used on line (with all filters included)

13.4.1 For 400,220 KV 220KV Source to Impedance ratio: 4 Relay setting (ohms) Fault locations (as % of Relay settings) Fault resistance (ohms) Maximum operating time faults For all faults 10/20 50 0 40ms

400KV 15 22 50 0 45ms for Phase

60ms for all other faults 6. Relay shall have independent setting of R and X and also an adjustable relay characteristic angle having setting range from 30 75 degree. 7. Shall have independent continuously variable time settings from 0 to 5 seconds. 8. Shall have resetting time of less than 55 miliseconds (including the reset time of the trip relays) 9. Shall have offset features with adjustable 10 20% of zone setting. 10. Shall have variable residual compensation. 11. Shall have memory circuits with defined characteristics in all three phases to ensure correct operation during close up 3phase faults and other adverse conditions and shall operate instantaneously when circuit breaker is closed to zero volts three phase fault. 12. Shall have week end infeed features. 13. Shall be suitable for single and three phase tripping. 14. Shall have a continuous c u r r e n t rating of two times of rated current. The voltage circuits shall be capable of operation at 1.2 times rated voltage. The relay shall have the capability to carry a short circuit current of 70 times the rated current without damage for 1second. 15. Shall be provided with necessary self-reset type trip duty contacts for completion of the scheme.(a minimum number of such contacts shall be 4 per phase). The making capacity of the contacts shall be 30 amps for 0.2 seconds with an inductive load of L/R>10ms. 16. Shall have permissive under reach/over reach/blocking communication mode. 17. Shall have sufficient number of potential free contacts for carrier aided tripping, Auto reclosing, Event logger, Disturbance recorder & Data acquisition system. 18. Shall have power swing blocking protection (i) suitable s e tt in g range to encircle the distance protection (ii) block tripping during power swing conditions. 19. Include fuse failure protection (i) monitor all three fuses of CVT and associated cable against open circuit(ii) inhibit trip circuits on operation and initiate annunciation(iii)have an operating time less than 7ms(iv)remain inoperative for system earth faults. 20. Shall have directional back up Inverse Definite minimum Time earth fault relay with normal inverse characteristics as per IEC 602553 as a built in feature. 21. Shall have annunciation. broken wire features having option for tripping/

BACK UP DIRECTIONAL O/C & E/F PROTECTION SCHEME.

1. 2. 3.

Shall have three over current and one earth fault elements. Shall be numerical type. Shall have suitable VT fuse failure for relay alarm purpose.

O/C features: 4. Shall have IDMT characteristic with a definite minimum time of 3.0 seconds at 10 times setting. 5. Shall have variable setting range up to 200% of rated current. 6. Shall have relay characteristic angle of 30/45 deg lead. 7. LED indications for different type faults. E/F features: 8. Shall have IDMT characteristics with a definite minimum time of 3.0 seconds at 10 times setting. 9. Shall have variable setting range up to 80% 0f rated current. 10. Shall have characteristic angle of 45/60 deg lag. 11. LED indications for all type of faults 12. Include necessary separate interposing voltage transformers or have internal features in the relay for open delta voltage to the relay. 13. Shall have continuous self monitoring and diagnostic feature.

AUTO RECLOSING RELAY: 1. Shall have single phase and three phase reclosing facilities. 2. Shall have continuously variable single phase dead time range of 0.1 2 sec 3. Shall have continuously variable reclaim time range 5 25 sec. 4. Shall have provision of selection with single phase//three phase//single and three phase auto reclosure and non auto reclosure mode (can be selected through programming). 5. Shall have provision of selecting check synchronizing or dead line charging. 6. Shall be single shot type. 7. Shall have priority circuit to closing of both circuit breakers incase one and half breaker arrangements to allow sequential closing of breakers. 8. Include check synchronizing relay which shall I) Have a time setting variable from 0.5 5 sec with a facility of additional 10 sec. II) Have a response time within 200 ms with the timer disconnected. III) Have a phase angle setting not exceeding 35 deg. IV) Have voltage difference setting not exceeding 10% V) Include dead line charging relay. LOCAL BREAKER BACKUP PROTECTION SCHEME: 1. Shall have triple pole type. 2. Shall be of numerical type and shall have continuous self monitoring and diagnostic feature.

3. Shall have an operating time of less than 15ms 4. Shall have resetting time of less than 15ms. 5. Shall have three over current elements. 6. Shall be arranged to get individual initiation f r o m the corresponding phase of main protections of line for each over current element. 7. Shall have 8. Shall have setting. 9. Shall have 10. Shall have setting range of 2080% of rated current. continuous thermal withstand two times rated current irrespective of the a timer with continuously adjustable setting range of 0.1 1 sec. necessary auxiliary relays to make a comprehensive scheme.

TRIPPING RELAY: 1. High speed tripping relay. 2. Instantaneous operation (time not to exceed 10ms) 3. Reset within 20ms 4. Shall be DC operated. 5. Shall have adequate contacts to meet the requirement of scheme, other functions like autoreclose relay, LBB relay as well as cater to associated equipment like event logger, disturbance recorder, fault locator etc. 6. Shall have element/coil. provision of operation indicators for each

TRIP CIRCUIT SUPERVISION RELAY: 1. The relay shall be capable of monitoring the healthiness of each phase trip coil and associated circuit of circuit breaker during ON and OFF conditions. 2. Shall have adequate contacts for providing connection to alarm and event logger. 3. Shall have time delay ondropoff of not less than 200ms and be provided with operation for each phase. DC SUPERVISION RELAY: 1. Shall be capable of monitoring the failure of DC supply to which it is connected. 2. Shall have adequate potential free contacts to meet the scheme requirement. 3. Shall have a time delay dropoff of not less than 100ms and be provided with operational indicator/flag.

4. Instrument selection switches shall be of maintained contact (stay put) type. Ammeter selection switches shall have make before break type contacts so as to prevent open circuiting of CT secondary when charging the position of the switch. Voltmeter transfer switch for AC shall be suitable for reading all line to line and line to neutral voltage for non effectively earthed systems and for reading all line to line voltages for effectively earthed systems. 5. Synchronising switches shall be of maintained contact (stay put) type having a common removable handle for a group of switches. The handle shall be removable only in the off position and it shall be coordinated to fit into all the synchronizing switches. These shall be arranged to connect the synchronizing equipment when turned to the on position. One

contact of each switch shall be connected in the closing circuit of the respective breaker so that the breaker cannot be closed until the switch is turned to the ON position. 6. Lockable type switches which can be locked in particular position shall be provided when specified. The key locks shall be fitted on the operating handles. 7. The contacts of all the switches shall preferably open and close with snap action to minimizing the arcing. Contacts of switches shall be spring assisted and contact faces shall be with rivets of pure silver or silver alloy Springs shall not be used as current carrying parts. 8. The contact combination and their operation shall be such as to give completeness to the interlock and function of the scheme. 9. The contact rating of the switches shall be as follows. Description Contact Rating In Amperes Make & carry continuously 10 Make & carry for 0.5 sec Break for i) Resistive load ii) Inductive load (L/R=40ms) 220 V DC 10 30 3 0.2 50 V DC 10 30 20 230 V AC 30 7

INDICATING INSTRUMENTS, RECORDERS & TRANSDUCERS: All instruments, meters, recorders and transducers shall be enclosed in dust proof, moisture resistant, black finished cases and shall be suitable for tropical use. All megawatt, megavar, bus voltage and frequency indicating instruments shall be provided with individual transducers and these shall be calibrated along with the transducers to read directly the primary quantities. They shall be accurately adjusted and calibrated at works and shall have means o f calibration check and adjustment at site. The supplier shall submit calibration certificates at the time of delivery. However no separate transducers are envisaged for digital bus voltmeters and digital frequency meters and the indicating meters provided in the synchronizing equipment.

Indicating Instruments: 1. All electrical indicating instruments shall be of digital type suitable for flush mounting. 2. Shall have 4 digit display, display height being not less than 25mm. 3. Shall confirm to relevant IS and shall have an accuracy class 1.5and or better watt and Var meters shall have an indication of (+) and () to indicate Export and Import respectively. 4. Digital voltage and frequency meters shall be of 0.5 class and shall have digital display of 5 and 4 digits respectively, with display size not less than 25mm height. Bus voltage & Frequency recording instruments: 1. Shall be static/digital type frequency and voltage recorder either as individual units or

composite unit for total substation with time tagged information shall also be applicable if it meets the accuracy of 1.0% span and full span response time of less than 2 seconds. The static/digital shall also meet the high voltage susceptibility test, impulse voltage with stand test ,high frequency disturbance testclass III and fast transient disturbance test level III as per IEC 60255. Transducers: 1. Transducers shall in general confirm to IEC6881 2. Shall be suitable for measurement of active power, reactive power, voltage, current and frequency in three phase four wire unbalanced system. 3. Transducers shall have input from substation current and voltage from the instrument transformers. The output shall be in miliampere D.C proportional to the input and shall feed the output current to the indicating instruments /telemetry terminals. 4. Characteristic shall be linier throughout the measuring range. 5. Output shall be load independent. 6. Input and output shall be galvanically isolated. 7. Transducers should work satisfactorily at 120% of rated value continuously. 8. Shall have 420mAmp. 9. Response time shall be less than 1 sec. 10. Accuracy class shall be 1 or better voltage/current, 0.5 or better for watt/var and 0.2 or better for frequency transducers. 11. Shall have a low AC ripple on output less than 1%. 12. Shall be suitable for load resistance of 1000 1500. 13. Shall have dual output.