2010-07-02 - The Relion® 670-series products are now available with capacitor bank protection. This function detects dangerous operation situations and trips before any damage in the capacitor units occurs.
Capacitor banks are of great importance for safe operation of the power system. However, capacitor units are vulnerable for different phenomena occurring in the power system.
- Damages of the capacitor bank will be prevented giving both reliability as well as economic benefit, says Zoran Gajic, Global Product Manager at ABB Substation Automation Products in Sweden.
Capacitor unitThe capacitor bank protection function includes peak based overcurrent protection, undercurrent protection, harmonic overload protection, reactive power overload protection and reconnection inhibit features. It is available in Bay control REC670 and Transformer protection RET670.
The capacitor bank protection is one of the new functions available in the latest release of the Relion 670 series. Please read this
link for more features.
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