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NC20 BANK CAPACITOR PROTECTION RELAY THE COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION FOR CAPACITOR BANK PROTECTION

NC20 BANK CAPACITOR PROTECTION RELAY THE COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION FOR CAPACITOR BANK PROTECTION

NC20 BANK CAPACITOR PROTECTION RELAY THE COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION FOR CAPACITOR BANK PROTECTION

Product catalog summary
Overview: The NC20 is a protection relay designed for shunt capacitor banks and harmonic filter circuits. It supports configurations such as single and double Wye, grounded or ungrounded, and can handle internally or externally fused, or fuseless capacitor units.
Protection Functions: The NC20 offers multiple protective functions including undervoltage, undercurrent, phase unbalance, neutral unbalance overcurrent, thermal image, phase overcurrent, residual overcurrent, overvoltage, breaker failure, CTs monitoring, and trip circuit monitoring.
Communication and Interface: The relay features a membrane keyboard, LCD display, and LEDs for user interaction. It supports USB, Modbus RS485, Modbus TCP/IP, and IEC 870-5-103/DNP3 communication protocols for remote monitoring and control.
Programming and Settings: Settings can be adjusted via the MMI or a PC using ThyVisor software. It supports two session levels (User and Administrator) with password protection and offers two set point profiles for different operational needs.
Measuring Inputs: The relay accepts three-phase current inputs and one unbalance neutral current input, with selectable nominal currents. It also supports three-phase voltage inputs with programmable nominal voltages.
Construction and Output Relays: The NC20 is available in various case styles and includes six output relays, each programmable for different functions. It also features binary inputs and modular design for extended I/O capabilities.
Diagnostics and Metering: The relay includes self-diagnostics for hardware and software, metering for voltages and currents, and event storage for diagnostics. It uses DFT for RMS value measurement and supports digital fault recording.
Specifications: The NC20 meets various mechanical, insulation, EMC, climatic, and safety standards. It operates within a wide range of environmental conditions and supports multiple communication interfaces.
General Settings and Protective Functions: The relay supports various settings for rated values, compensation, binary input timers, and relay output timers. It includes protective functions like thermal protection, undervoltage, and more.
Undercurrent Protection: Specifies the operating time and threshold settings for undercurrent protection, including both definite and inverse time settings, based on RMS value measurement of three-phase currents.
Phase Unbalance Protection: Details activation and reset times for phase unbalance protection, with specific thresholds and operating times for both definite and inverse time settings.
Neutral Unbalance Current Protection: Specifies alarm and operating thresholds for neutral unbalance current, with both definite and inverse time settings.
Thermal Image Protection: Describes configuration for thermal image protection, including initial thermal image settings, reduction factors, and thermal time constants.
Phase Overcurrent Protection: Outlines thresholds and operating times for phase overcurrent protection, with both definite and inverse time settings.
Residual Overcurrent Protection: Provides details on thresholds and operating times for residual overcurrent protection, including both definite and inverse time settings.
Overvoltage Protection: Specifies operating logic and thresholds for overvoltage protection, with both definite and inverse time settings.
Circuit Breaker Supervision: Includes thresholds for the number of circuit breaker trips and cumulative tripping currents, as well as maximum allowed opening times.
Pilot Wire Diagnostic: Describes diagnostic pulse periods and windows for pilot wire diagnostics.
Breaker Failure Protection: Specifies thresholds and time delays for breaker failure protection.
CT Supervision: Details thresholds and operating times for CT supervision.
Selective Block: Outlines activation and dropout times for selective blocking of phase and ground protections.
Metering & Recording: Lists measured parameters, including frequency, RMS values, and phase displacement angles. Also covers event and fault recording capabilities.
Digital Fault Recorder: Describes setup and data recorded by the digital fault recorder, including sampling rates and trigger setups.
Connection Diagram: Provides an example connection diagram with dimensions and mounting details.
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NC20 BANK CAPACITOR PROTECTION RELAY THE COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION FOR CAPACITOR BANK PROTECTION-1

Protection Relays BANK CAPACITOR PROTECTION RELAY THE COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION FOR CAPACITOR BANK PROTECTION — Application The relay type NC20 provides protection of shunt capacitor banks and harmonic filter circuits. • The capacitor banks may have the following configurations: • Single Wye grounded. • Single Wye ungrounded (with a resistor on the output of the neutral unbalance voltage transformer in order to develop the appropriate input current for the unbalance protection). • Double Wye ungrounded. The capacitor banks may be: internally/externally fused or fuseless capacitor units. A suitable compensation method is provided to compensate the inherent unbalance neutral current Protection 37, 49 and 50/51 (RMS) are based on RMS value measurement of the three phase currents (fundamental and harmonics up to the 11th) - Protective & control functions NC20 52 METERING - I L1...I L3,I L1RMS...I L3RMS,I EC,I N,... - Oscillography - Events&Faults recorder Undervoltage Undercurrent Phase unbalance Neutral unbalance overcurrent with inherent unbalance compensation 49 Thermal image (for series reactor) 50/51 Fundamental frequency phase overcurrent 50/51(RMS) RMS phase overcurrent 50N/51N Computed residual overcurrent 59 Overvoltage BF Breaker Failure 74CT CTs monitoring 74TCS Trip Circuit Monitoring TD Discharge Timer Control functions COMMUNICATION - USB - Modbus RS485 - Modbus TCP/IP - IEC 870-5-103/DNP3

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— Measuring inputs • Three phase current inputs and one unbalance neutral current input, with nominal currents independently selectable at 1 A or 5 A through DIP-switches. • Three phase voltage inputs with programmable nominal voltages within range 50...130 V (UR=100 V). The user interface comprises a membrane keyboard, a backlight LCD alphanumeric display and eight LEDs. The green ON LED indicates auxiliary power supply and self diagnostics, two LEDs are dedicated to the Start and Trip (yellow for Start, red for Trip) and five red LEDs are user assignable. According to the hardware configurations,...

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— Self diagnostics All hardware and software functions are repeatedly checked and any anomalies reported via display messages, communication interfaces, LEDs and output relays. Anomalies may refer to: • Hw faults (auxiliary power supply, output relay coil interruptions, MMI board...). • Sw faults (boot and run time tests for data base, EEPROM memory checksum failure, data BUS,...). • Pilot wire faults (break or short in the wire). • Circuit breaker faults. NC20 provides metering values for voltages, phase and neutral currents, making them available for reading on a display or to communication...

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SPECIF ICAT IONS INPUT CIRCUITS GENERAL — Mechanical data Mounting: flush, projecting, rack or separated operator panel Mass (flush mounting case) 2.0 kg — Insulation tests Reference standards High voltage test 50Hz Impulse voltage withstand (1.2/50 ms) Insulation resistance — Voltage dip and interruption Reference standards — EMC tests for interference immunity 1 MHz damped oscillatory wave Electrostatic discharge Fast transient burst (5/50 ns) Conducted radio-frequency fields Radiated radio-frequency fields High energy pulse Magnetic field 50 Hz Damped oscillatory wave Ring wave Conducted common...

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GENERAL SETTINGS — Rated values Relay nominal frequency (f n) Relay phase nominal current (In) Phase CTs nominal primary current (Inp) Relay unbalance nominal current (INn) Unbalance CT nominal primary current (INnp) Relay nominal voltage (Un) Line VT primary nominal voltage (Unp) Compensation current (IC) 0.01...0.50 I Nn Compensation angle (PhiC) 0...359 ° Automatic compensation enable ON/OFF — Binary input timers ON delay time (t IN1ON, t IN2ON) 0.00...100.0 s OFF delay time (t IN1OFF, t IN2OFF) 0.00...100.0 s Logic Active-ON/Active-OFF — Relay output timers Minimum pulse width (t TR) PROTECTIVE...

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Dth> Element • 49 Trip threshold Dq (Dth>) 1.100...1.300 DqB • IE>inv within CLP (IECLP>inv) 0.100...10.00 In • IE>inv Operating time (t E>inv) 0.02...60.0 s Note - The 49 protection is based on maximum of the RMS value measurement of three phase currents (the computed RMS value takes into account the contribution of fundamental and harmonic up to eleventh order.) IE>> Element • IECLP >> Activation time (t ECLP>>) 0.00...100.0 s • IE>> Reset time delay (t E>> RES) 0.00...100.0 s Definite time • 50N/51N Second threshold definite time (IE>>def) 0.100...40.0 In • IE>>def within CLP (IECLP>>def )...

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• Thermal image DTheta-r • Phase displacement angle of INC with respect to IL1 (jNC) PhiNCr Selective block IN: • BLIN Max activation time for phase protections (t B-Iph) • Phase displacement angle of IN with respect to IL1 (jN) PhiNr • Binary inputs state IN1, IN2...INx 0.10...10.00 s K1...K6...K10 • BLIN Max activation time for ground protections (t B-IE ) • Output relays state • Fault cause info (operating phase) L1, L2, L3 0.10...10.00 s Selective block OUT: • BLOUT Dropout time delay for phase protections (t F-Iph) Digital Fault Recorder (Oscillography) — 0.00...1.00 s COMTRADE • BLOUT Dropout...

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— Connection diagram example L1 L2 L3 A VOLTAGE INPUTS Supervision unit FLUSH MOUNTING CUTOUT FRONT PANEL MODULO 4 RELE’ + 8 INGRESSI DIGITALI 4 RELAYS + 8 BINARY INPUTS MODULE BINARY INPUTS OUTPUT RELAYS START TRIP

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