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B95Plus – Legacy

Manufacturing for this product has been discontinued. As an alternative, please refer to the B30, P747 and P74x relays.

The Multilin™ B95Plus Bus Protection System is the ideal solution for one of the biggest challenges for large bus protection: the time and cost involved in the design, installation and commissioning of the field wiring between measurements from the switchyardand the bus protection relay in the room. The HardFiber Brick, the environmentally hardened distributed bay unit of the B95Plus bus protection relay, directly reduces the time and costs involved in field wiring in both the short term and the long term.

Save time and money in the short term with flexible mounting options for the HardFiber Brick bay unit. The compact size and rugged design allows for installation in the switchyard, in equipment cabinets or in the control room. Data signals are converted to digital signals per the IEC 61850 standard and communicated over a single fiber optic cable. Installation next to the primary signal source virtually eliminates all field wiring.

To save money in the long term, use the HardFiber Brick bay unit as an IEC 61850 process bus merging unit. This becomes the complete I/O interface for protective relays and all zones of protection. Relay installation for any future zone of protection becomes plug-and-play: mount the relay on a panel, plug the relay into the HardFiber Brick bay unit and commission.

Key Benefits

  • Reduce field wiring costs by replacing multiple copper wires and terminations with a fiber optic cable
  • Save installation costs by mounting the bay unit in harsh environments without requiring specialized enclosures
  • Increase savings by connecting other relays to the same process bus bay unit
  • Protect six three-phase differential zones with one central device
Field Wiring
Hardware
Protection
Applications
Process Bus
Specifications

Field Wiring

We Solve the Field Wiring Challenge with the B95Plus Bus Protection System

The Multilin B95Plus Bus Protection System changes the focus of bus protection to that of application by replacing most of the field wiring with distributed I/O and fiber optic cables. The bus protection system consists of a distributed process interface (data acquisition and tripping) architecture using HardFiber Bricks as bay units, with centralized processing performed by the B95Plus protection relay. All copper field wiring is between primary equipment in the switchyard and Bricks, which ideally should be located at the primary equipment in the switchyard. Fiber optic cables connect Bricks to the B95Plus. For all applications, the installation is then identical: the physical interface consists of Bricks connected to a fiber optic cable. A single B95Plus is mounted in a relay cabinet, with the process cards in the unit patched to the fiber optic cables coming from the Bricks.

HardFiber Brick System

The HardFiber Brick System can easily be incrementally scaled to include new equipment as stations evolve. Duplicated Bricks in the switchyard provide a drastic improvement in reliability and security over today’s technology.

HardFiber Brick system

Hardware

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Multilin B95Plus Bus Protection Relay

The B95Plus bus protection relay unit is the heart of the system. This unit performs all processing functionality, including protection functions, metering, monitoring, FlexLogic and SCADA communications.

  • Simplifies use through a Graphical User Interface (GUI) that includes configurable single line diagrams for bus sources, local control and status indication of breakers and disconnects, 20 programmable pushbuttons, and a configurable digital alarm annunciator
  • Connects up to 8 Bricks for each process card while, supporting up to 12 bus sources per card
  • Supports 2 process cards per unit, for a total of 16 Bricks and 24 bus sources
  • Provides identical connections and installation for all bus configurations
HardFiber Brick

HardFiber Brick as Bay Unit

  • Measurement and control for primary apparatus, including AC measurements (4 currents and 4 voltages, or 8 currents) and contact I/O (18 digital inputs and 7 digital outputs including a latching relay)
  • Simple device with no field configuration or configuration settings
  • Environmentally hardened for outdoor mounting in switchyards
  • Connectorized cables for simple, tools-free field installation and removal
  • IEC 61850 message formats for communications, including sampled value messaging for currents and voltages
HardFiber Cables

Cables

The HardFiber Brick uses connectorized cables to interface with primary equipment and with system measurements, and to interface to the B95Plus itself. The cables at the Brick end uses an IP67 certified industry standard connector designed for rugged environments. These connectors screw onto the Brick for a simple, tools-free connection. Three of the cables are copper cables used to acquire AC measurements, acquire equipment status, and provide equipment control. The fourth cable provides the fiber interface to the B95Plus central unit as well as DC power to the Brick. These cables therefore can become standard parts, manufactured in advance of installation by any cable manufacturer. These cables are also directly available from GE.

Protection

The B95Plus bus protection relay system provides robust and reliable protection for all bus protection applications. Highlights of the protection functions related to bus protection include:

  • Multi-zone differential protection with both restrained (dual-slope percent or biased) and unrestrained (unbiased or instantaneous) functions incorporated.
  • Differential protection is fast (typical response time: 1 power system cycle) and secure. Security is achieved by using a fast and reliable CT saturation detection algorithm and a phase comparison operating principle. Security is further enhanced by support for redundant process interface units (Bricks). Supports both three-phase tripping and individual phase tripping.
  • Dynamic bus replica functionality and multi-zone protection (up to 6 zones) is supported allowing application of the B95Plus to multi-section reconfigurable buses. A zone expansion/contraction to an open breaker feature is included. Isolator position monitoring for up to 48 isolators.
  • Check-zone functionality configured by programming one of the differential zones to enclose the entire bus.
  • Additional bus protection functions including end fault protection, breaker fail and overcurrent protection for each bus source, CT trouble monitoring for each bus zone.

Multilin B95Plus Functional Block Diagram

Multilin B95 Plus Functional Block Diagram

ANSI Divice Numbers & Functions

Device Number Function
87B Percent bus differential
27 Undervoltage
50 Instantaneous overcurrent
50/74 CT Trouble
Device Number Function
50/87 Unrestrained Bus Differential
51EF End fault protection
51 Time overcurrent
50BF Breaker failure

Applications

  • Reconfigurable multi-section bus bar with up to 24 feeders
  • Retrofit and greenfield installations for power generation, transmission and distribution systems
  • Reconfigurable bus bars for single bus, breaker-and-a-half and double bus with and without bus couplers
  • Air-insulated and GIS stations

Standardize on the B95Plus for Any Bus Configuration

The B95Plus can be applied on a multitude of bus configurations due to the distributed architecture, and includes support for up to 6 zones of bus differential protection and support for up to 24 bus sources. The physical connection and wiring architecture for the B95Plus system will be identical for any bus configuration: Bricks installed to acquire measurements and equipment status, with the B95Plus unit connected to Bricks via fiber optic cables. The relay panel design will be identical for all applications, for all bus configurations. The only difference from application to application is the number and location of Bricks, and the programming of the B95Plus unit.

Some typical bus configurations that can be protected by the B95Plus:

B95 Plus - Typical single bus Application Two single buses with a bus coupler
B95 Plus - typical double bus Application Double bus with a bus coupler
B95Plus - typical breaker-and-a-half application Breaker-and-a-half arrangement

Process Bus

Quickly Expand Protection through Process Bus

The B95Plus Bus Protection System is intended to operate as a standalone, distributed bus protection system. The bay units for this system are Bricks, part of the HardFiber IEC 61850 process bus solution. Once the Bricks for the B95Plus are installed process bus data is available for use for any other zone of protection. The Bricks, then, are a distributed I/O interface for all protection functions and zones, not just the B95Plus. With the B95Plus in place, installing line protection or feeder protection is a simple process: mount the relays in a panel, and patch to the fiber optic cable from the appropriate Bricks. The only requirement is the relays must implement the appropriate IEC 61850 datasets to interface successfully with the Bricks. All members of the Universal Relay family have the ability to interface with Bricks.

B95 Plus - Process Bus application diagram Expand protection through process bus

Specifications

BUS DIFFERENTIAL PROTECTION
Number of differential zones Six 3-phase zones
Max number of currents: Total dynamic number of bus source to zone connections closed at any one moment in time up to 120
CT ratio compensation range 32:1
Operating time < 1 power system cycle - typical bus fault
BUS REPLICA
Features Dynamic bus source current assignment to each zone, dynamic zone trip assignment to each bus source, dynamic blocking of zones on CT bypassed, 1 user programmable auxiliary zone trip inputs, 3 user programmable bus source trip inputs, dynamic zone expansion/reduction
BUS SOURCES
Number of bus sources 12 per process card included in the order code
Current inputs 3-phase currents
CT rated primary 1 to 65000 A
CT rated secondary 1 A or 5 A
Nominal frequency 50 or 60 Hz
CT Trouble Monitoring 1 element per bus source
Breaker failure protection 1 element per bus source
Instantaneous Phase Overcurrent 1 element per bus source
Inverse Time Phase Overcurrent 1 element per bus source
VOLTAGE SOURCES
Number of voltage sources 2 per process card included in the order code
Voltage inputs 3-phase voltages, wye or delta
VT ratio 1.00 V to 24000.00 /td>
VT rated secondary 25.0 V to 240.0 V
Nominal frequency 50 or 60 Hz
ISOLATORS
Number of isolators 48 per process card included in the order code
Isolator status inputs Form “a” and form “b” contact inputs, each optionally dual redundant
Configurable failsafe modes 2Open, closed, last valid state
Monitoring Alarm on inconsistent inputs persisting longer than a user set time
TRANSIENT RECORDER
Storage capacity Five records with all channels recorded, at 128 samples per cycle, spanning 1 second with no retriggers
Number of records 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 30, 40, or 50 records
Sampling rate 16, 32, 64 or 128 samples per power cycle
AC waveform channels All enabled bus sources and voltages sources
Analog channels Magnitudes and angles of all ac waveforms recorded plus all enabled zone differential and zone restraint phase current magnitudes and angles
Digital channels 128 user configurable channels on the main card and 128 user configurable channels on each process card
Configurable digital data Any FlexLogic™ operand
Storage modes Automatic overwrite, protected
Triggering modes Time window from rising edge of trigger, continuous recording up to 4 additional basic record lengths as long as retrigger is active
Pre-trigger window 0 to 100% of the basic record length
Data storage non-volatile memory
EVENT RECORDER
Storage capacity 8,192 events plus 8,192 events on each process card
Time tag: to 1 µs
Triggers all FlexLogic™ operand activations
PROCESS I/O
Number of process bus ports 8 per process card
Port type 100Base-BX-D, in SFP package with LC 50/125µm multi-mode connector
Transceiver diagnostics per SFF-8472
Brick synch frame jitter ±1µs
POWER SUPPLY
Nominal DC voltage 125 to 250 V
Minimum DC voltage 80 V
1Maximum DC voltage 300 V
Nominal AC voltage 100 to 240 V at 50/60 Hz
Minimum AC voltage 80 V at 48 to 62 Hz
Maximum AC voltage 275 V at 48 to 62 Hz
Voltage withstand 2 × highest nominal voltage for 10 ms
Voltage loss ride-through 200 ms duration at nominal input voltage
Power consumption 150 VA maximum
PROCESS CARD OPTICAL
Number of transceivers 8
Transceiver type: Transmit 1550 nm, receive 1310 nm, 100Mb/s, bi-directional single-fiber 50/125µm multi-mode module (levels comply with IEEE 802.3 standard 100Base-BX-D)
Optical transmit power –14 to –8 dBm
Maximum optical input power –8dBm
Optical receiver sensitivity –30dBm
Termination LC fiber connector
Laser class Class 1. This product is eye-safe under all operating conditions.
REMOTE RESOURCE SPECIFICATIONS
Number of field units 8 per process card
Number of field contact inputs 1 for each brick contact input
Number of field contact outputs 1 for each brick contact output
Number of field latching outputs 1 for each brick latching output
Number of shared inputs 16 per process card
Number of shared outputs 16 per process card
APPROVALS AND CERTIFICATION
Compliance CE, UL, ISO
Compliance Applicable Council Directive According To
CE Low voltage directive EN 60255-27
(normative sections)
  EMC directive EN 60255-26 / EN 50263
EN 61000-6-5 (Area G)
UL cULus UL 508
UL 1053
C22.2 No 14
ISO Quality management system ISO 9001