Multilin L30
Line Current Differential System
The L30 is a cost-effective line current differential protection relay intended for sub-transmission and medium voltage lines and cables providing reliable and secure operation even under the worst case power system conditions. The L30 provides secure high-speed fault detection and clearance suitable for three-pole tripping applications. The L30 supports inter-relay communications via direct fiber as well as standard RS422, G.703 and C37.94 telecommunication interfaces. The L30 also provides synchrophasor measurements over Ethernet per IEEE C37.118.
Key Benefits
- Proven current differential protection ensures secure high-speed tripping
- Advanced IEC 61850 Ed. 1 and Ed. 2 certified implementation, complete settings via SCL files and flexible process bus support (IEC 61850-9-2LE, IEC 61869 or IEC 61850-9-2 Hardfiber) ensures interoperability, device managing optimization and reduced cost of ownership
- Routable GOOSE (R-GOOSE) enables GOOSE messages going beyond the substation, which enables wide area protection and control applications
- Increased sensitivity through dynamic charging current compensation and communication channel asymmetry compensation
- Adaptive restraint characteristic provides excellent security against measurement errors including CT saturation
- Phasor Measurement Unit (synchrophasor) according to IEEE® C37.118 (2011) and IEC® 61850-90-5 support
- Advance Cyber security features “CyberSentryTM” that helps meet modern industry requirements
- Application flexibility with multiple I/O options including high density I/O, programmable logic, modularity, and specific customization
- An integrated large, full color display, provides real-time visualization and control of the protected bay, via a bay mimic as well as annunciator functionality and graphical visualization of phasors
Applications
- Overhead lines and underground cables of different voltage levels
- Circuits with tapped transformer feeders
- Suitable for three-terminal line configurations, with channel redundancy and direct transfer tripping (DTT)
- Wide area system monitoring and control and using integrated protection and synchrophasor measurement
- Applications requiring three-pole autoreclosing and independent synchrocheck supervision
Multilin L30
Line Current Differential System
The L30 is a cost-effective line current differential protection relay intended for sub-transmission and medium voltage lines and cables providing reliable and secure operation even under the worst case power system conditions. The L30 provides secure high-speed fault detection and clearance suitable for three-pole tripping applications. The L30 supports inter-relay communications via direct fiber as well as standard RS422, G.703 and C37.94 telecommunication interfaces. The L30 also provides synchrophasor measurements over Ethernet per IEEE C37.118.
Key Benefits
- Proven current differential protection ensures secure high-speed tripping
- Advanced IEC 61850 Ed. 1 and Ed. 2 certified implementation, complete settings via SCL files and flexible process bus support (IEC 61850-9-2LE, IEC 61869 or IEC 61850-9-2 Hardfiber) ensures interoperability, device managing optimization and reduced cost of ownership
- Routable GOOSE (R-GOOSE) enables GOOSE messages going beyond the substation, which enables wide area protection and control applications
- Increased sensitivity through dynamic charging current compensation and communication channel asymmetry compensation
- Adaptive restraint characteristic provides excellent security against measurement errors including CT saturation
- Phasor Measurement Unit (synchrophasor) according to IEEE® C37.118 (2011) and IEC® 61850-90-5 support
- Advance Cyber security features “CyberSentryTM” that helps meet modern industry requirements
- Application flexibility with multiple I/O options including high density I/O, programmable logic, modularity, and specific customization
- An integrated large, full color display, provides real-time visualization and control of the protected bay, via a bay mimic as well as annunciator functionality and graphical visualization of phasors
Applications
- Overhead lines and underground cables of different voltage levels
- Circuits with tapped transformer feeders
- Suitable for three-terminal line configurations, with channel redundancy and direct transfer tripping (DTT)
- Wide area system monitoring and control and using integrated protection and synchrophasor measurement
- Applications requiring three-pole autoreclosing and independent synchrocheck supervision
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 | Cyber Security - CyberSentry UR (FW v7.xx) CyberSentryTM enables UR devices to deliver full cyber security features that help customers to comply with cyber security requirements (NERC CIP, IEEE 1686, IEC 62443, etc):
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 | Fully Compatible with IEC 61850-9-2LE or IEC61869 process bus schemes:
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 | Extended Oscillography Records (FW v7.xx)
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 | New and Enhanced Protection and Control Functionality
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Key Features
- Line current differential with adaptive restraint
- Stub bus protection
- Breaker failure and three-pole autoreclose
- Underfrequency protection and dedicated harmonic inrush detection
- Phase directional overcurrent, neutral directional with dual polarity criteria, broken conductor and thermal overload
- Non-directional overcurrent: phase, neutral and negative sequence
- Phase over/under voltage, negative sequence overvoltage
- Two independent synchronism check elements
Protection & Control
The L30 is a cost-effective line current differential protection relay intended for sub-transmission and medium voltage lines and cables, providing reliable and secure operation even under the worst case power system conditions. The L30 provides secure high-speed fault detection and clearance suitable for three-pole tripping applications. Part of the Universal Relay family, the L30 comes with a variety of versatile features, truly integrating protection, monitoring, metering, communication and control in one easy-to-use device. The Universal Relay family offers a high degree of modularity in its design and functionality, providing superior performance in protection and control, while meeting the toughest requirements of the marketplace.
Functional Block Diagram
ANSI® Device Numbers & Functions
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Key Features
- Real-time monitoring of remote, local and differential per phase currents
- Oscillography - 64 samples/cycle, up to 64 records
- Event Recorder - 1024 time tagged events, with 0.5ms scan of digital inputs
- Data Logger - Up to 16 channels with user-selectable sampling rate
- P & M class synchrophasors of voltage, current and sequence components – 1 to 120 frames/sec
Monitoring & Diagnostics
The L30 is the single point for protection, control, metering, and monitoring in one integrated device that can easily be connected directly into DCS or SCADA monitoring and control systems like Viewpoint Monitoring as shown.
Advanced Automation
The L90 incorporates advanced automation features including powerful FlexLogic™ programmable logic, communication, and SCADA capabilities that far surpass what is found in the average line relay. The L90 integrates seamlessly with other UR relays for complete system protection.
FlexLogic allows for the customization of the L30 to operate and control the breakers and other auxiliary devices needed to fit most line protection schemes and applications.
Key Features
Complete IEC 61850 Process Bus solution providing resource optimization and minimizing total P & C life cycle costs
- Three independent 100Mbps Ethernet ports enable purpose specific LAN support that eliminates latency effect of heavy traffic protocols on mission critical communication services
- Embedded IEEE 1588 time-synch protocol support eliminates dedicated IRIG-B wiring requirements for IEDs
- Direct I/O secures high-speed exchange of binary data between URs
- Increase network availability by reducing failover time to zero through IEC62439-3 PRP, HSR or dual HSR support
Advanced Communications
The L30 provides for secure remote data and engineering access, making it easy and flexible to use and integrate into new and existing infrastructures. Fiber optic Ethernet provides high-bandwidth communications allowing for low-latency controls and high-speed file transfers of relay fault and event record information. The available three independent and redundant Ethernet options provide the means to create fault tolerant communication architectures in an easy, cost-effective manner.
The L30 supports the most popular industry standard protocols enabling easy, direct integration into monitoring and SCADA systems.
- IEC 61850-9-2LE networked or IEC61850-9-2 Hardfiber process bus support
- DNP 3.0 (serial & TCP/IP)
- IEC 60870-5-103 and IEC 60870-5-104
- Modbus RTU, Modbus TCP/IP
- HTTP, TFTP, SFTP and MMS file transfer
- Redundant SNTP and IEEE 1588 for time synchronization
- PRP as per IEC 62439-3
- IRC module that combines C37.92 multimode and direct connection singlemode
- Supports Routable GOOSE (R-GOOSE)
Interoperability with Enbedded IEC 61850
Use the L30 with integrated IEC 61850 to lower costs associated with generator protection, control and automation. GE’s leadership in IEC 61850 comes from thousands of installed devices and follows on years of development experience with UCA 2.0.
The L30’s IEC 61850 Process Bus module is designed to interface with the Multilin HardFiber System, allowing bi-directional IEC 61850 fiber optic communications. The HardFiber System is designed to integrate seamlessly with existing Universal Relay applications, including protection functions, FlexLogic, metering and communications. Learn more
The L30 can also connect to GE MU320 or third-party merging units using standard IEC 61869 or IEC 61850-9-2LE communication protocols.
Cyber Security - CyberSentry™ UR (FW v7.4xx)
CyberSentry enables UR devices to deliver full cyber security features that help customers to comply with NERC CIP and NITIR 7628 cyber security requirements through supporting the following core features:
Secure FW upgrade
UR FW files v7.9 and up now include a hash code that allows for authentication prior to being used for upgrading UR devices.
Password Complexity
Supporting up to 20 alpha- numeric or special characters, UR passwords exceed NERC CIP requirements for password complexity. Individual passwords per role are available.
AAA Server Support (Radius)
Enables integration with centrally managed authentication and accounting of all user activities and uses modern industry best practices and standards that meet and exceed NERC CIP requirements for authentication and password management.
Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
Efficiently administrate users and roles within UR devices. The new and advanced access functions allow users to configure up to five roles for up to eight configurable users with independent passwords. The standard “Remote Authentication Dial In User Service” (Radius) is used for authentication.
Event Recorder (Syslog for SEM)
Capture all cyber security related events within a SOE element (login, logout, invalid password attempts, remote/local access, user in session, settings change, FW update, etc), and then serve and classify data by security level using standard Syslog data format. This enables UR devices integration with established SEM (Security Event Management) systems.
EnerVista™ Software
The EnerVista™ suite is an industry-leading set of software programs that simplifies every aspect of using the L30 relay. The EnerVista™ suite provides all the tools to monitor the status of the protected asset, maintain the relay, and integrate information measured by the L30 into DCS or SCADA monitoring systems. Convenient COMTRADE and Sequence of Events viewers are an integral part of the UR setup software included with every UR relay, to carry out postmortem event analysis and ensure proper protection system operation. Learn More
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