GE
GRID SOLUTIONS
RPV311
Digital Fault Recorder With
Fault Location and PMU
The solution is composed of the RPV processing unit and remote acquisition
units RA331, RA332 and/or RA333. It acquires monitors and records electrical
quantities in applications where high performance, modularity, flexibility and
high channels counts are demanded. The RPV is the most complete solution
on the market for digital substation applications, thanks to its powerful suite
of integrated functions, coupled with the scalability of the hardware.
MASSIVE CAPACITY
With up to 64 analogue, 256 digital inputs and in addition up to 256 binary
inputs related to GOOSE messages per processing unit you can easily have
your whole plant or substation information at a single device. With over 50GB
of solid-state internal memory, keep your data for months or even years of
peace of mind.
Functionality Available
Fault recorder
Disturbance recorder
Continuous recorder (waveform and
RMS)
Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) in
TURNKEY ENGINEERING AND RETROFITTING
Our engineering team can deliver a solution customized to your needs, from
drafting to commissioning. Take advantage of our retrofitting solution and
swap your old equipment without laying any new cables. From water to
earthquake resistant panels, you can have it your way.
FUTURE PROOF
Protect your investment for future compatibility and reap the benefits of
the newest reliability technology available, such as continuous recording
for fault and disturbance, DNP3, and IEC61850 GOOSE and Sampled Values
communication.
RELIABILITY
All equipment conforms to IEC 61010-1 and IEC 60255-27 standards, ensuring
reliability and ruggedness even under harsh environments.
Every manufactured unit undergoes complete functional and stress tests to
ensure the highest quality.
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accordance with IEEE C37.118.1/22011/1a-2014
Steady-state recorder
Power Quality Recorder
Sequence Of events recorder
Real time monitor
Travelling wave-based fault locator
(TWFL) Process bus (IEC61850-9-2LE
recorder
DC to 3 kHz measurement
IEC61850-8-1 support
EASY TO CONFIGURE, EASY TO MONITOR
The RPV311 offers a unique integrated web-based graphical interface for online monitoring and configuration. All the
information can be easily retrieved using a standard web-browser locally or remotely. Navigating the monitoring interface,
measurements being generated by the RPV311 can be viewed real-time without any other monitoring software. This is
particularly useful during commissioning when the RPV311 will probably be the first system commissioned. A standalone
version of the configuration system is also available offline without the need to be connected to a physical unit. This way
creating template configuration files is simple task that can be done from anywhere.
PROCESS BUS APPLICATIONS WITH IEC 61850-9-2
The RPV is ready for the digital substation with support to sampled value applications according to IEC 61850-9-2LE. Use the
Reason MU320 as your digitized acquisition system or subscribe directly to third party merging units or digital instrument
transformers. Such flexibility permits standardisation of the DFR solution across substations employing different primary
technology generations; it prepares for future substation extensions, and allows a migration path to the full digital substation.
GREAT ACCURACY, EVEN ON DC APPLICATIONS
The RA33x acquisition units offers excellent accuracy on a wide bandwidth. The intelligent shunt measurement with optical
isolation between the external world and the internal electronics, with no core to magnetise, no core to saturate, and hence
negligible error. Such greater accuracy is important in high-precision measurement and phasor applications, whilst also
permitting DC quantities to be measured. That makes the Reason DFR solutions the perfect choice for HVDC installations.
PHASOR MEASUREMENT UNIT (PMU)
The RPV is able to construct accurate synchrophasor data based on the incoming measurements from all available sources,
including merging units and DITs. This makes the solution highly scalable more cost-optimised than the addition of multiple
discrete PMUs. Integrating the PMU function to the DFR system profits on the measurement accuracy, the precision time
distribution, and the communication architecture already in place, negating the requirement to install a duplicate architecture
solely for PMU purposes. The RPV synchrophasor measurement and publishing are carried out according to the latest IEEE
C37.118.1/2-2011 and C37.118.1a-2014 for synchrophasors in power systems.
TRAVELLING WAVE FAULT LOCATION
Traveling wave (TW) fault location (TWFL) is an extremely precise method to define where a fault occurred on a transmission
line, or span length of conductors. Such accuracy to within a few hundreds of metres of the actual fault point is not possible
to achieve with traditional impedance-based fault location, which conversely introduces measurement errors equivalent to
a few percentage points of the full line length. The highly reliable fault location system uses an innovative and patented
combination of travelling wave and fault detection algorithms where all the triggers normally associated with Digital Fault
Recorders (DFRs) can also be used to record TW events. Precision is not affected by line resistance, mutual coupling effects
(parallel lines), load, or compensation circuits (capacitor banks). The fault location is displayed on a Google-earth map, onto
which the GPS coordinates of substations, towers and conductors have been plotted. Maintenance crews are thus directed to
the exact location of the fault without the need to resort to vehicular, helicopter or foot patrols to find the exact location. We
are leaders in the field of travelling wave fault location and our techniques work equally-well for short-circuits and high
impedance faults.
For more information please contact:
[email protected]+55 48 2108 0300
GEGridSolutions.com
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The content of this document is merely informative and
does not include all details of the described equipment. This
information shall not be used as the only source of information
for the installation or operation of the equipment herein
described. All specifications are subject to changes without
prior notice.
