In a digital protective relay system for protecting an electric power system, a first digital operation device receives digital data on the electrical quantities of the power system and performs an operation on the digital data to produce an intermediate result, which is then stored in a memory unit. A second digital operation device reads the intermediate result from the memory unit and performs an operation on the intermediate result to produce a final result. The memory unit is so connected as to permit writing by the first operation device only, and to permit reading by the second operation device only.
A digital protective relay apparatus for protecting a power system comprises an accident determination section for determining an accident in the power system, which receives a voltage and a current of the power system from the power system to determine an accident in the power system using the voltage and the current, outputs a determination signal indicating the presence/absence of an accident in accordance with a result of the accident determination, and outputs a first trip signal upon detecting an accident in the power system in accordance with the accident determination, a protection sequence section for receiving the determination signal from the accident determination section to determine necessity of a trip output by performing predetermined sequence processing using the determination signal, and outputting a second trip signal upon obtaining a determination result indicating that a trip command is to be output, and a trip generator for generating, when both of the first and second trip signals are output, a third trip signal for opening a circuit breaker provided to protect the power system.
A distance relay for protection of power transmission lines, having a plurality of mho elements, each with a predetermined mho impedance characteristic. The relay has the capability of calculating a polarized reference voltage which remains constant through fluctuations in measured transmission line voltage. The difference voltage between the measured line voltage and the product of the measured line current and the mho element characteristic impedance is then compared against the polarized reference voltage in a product-type phase comparator to determine under-impedance conditions. If an under-impedance condition is present, the mho element produces a set output and a calculated "torque" value. The set outputs, if any, are then compared against a look-up table for fault type determination. If more than one set output is present, the magnitudes of the respective torque values are compared for fault type determination.
A detector of quantity of electricity of the invention for detecting an amplitude value from the quantity of AC electricity, comprising sampling means for sampling the quantity of AC electricity at a cycle T which is 1/4 of the rated cycle of quantity of AC electricity, and operating means for operating the amplitude value on the basis of the sampling values, operates with the following formula: where, y(t-nT) is expressed as y(nT).
A protective relay system for generation apparatus connectable to a three-phase alternating current electrical utility system. The relay system includes a dual processing architecture wherein a digital signal processor executes all the signal-processing algorithms, and a separate microprocessor is used for input/output data processing. A dual-ported RAM is used to effect a fast communication link between the digital signal processor and the microprocessor to accomplish high-speed protective relaying functions to selectively trip and close a circuit breaker at a generator or cogenerator site, or that which connects it to an electric utility system.
In a digital protection relay with a time sync function, the sampling timing of which is specified based on a reference timing transmitted from a time signal generator to a time sync unit, with a determination value. The time sync unit includes a reception circuit that receives a discrimination code and time data transmitted from the time signal generator, a code discrimination circuit that discriminates the reference timing on condition that the received discrimination code coincides with a desired code, a time calculation circuit that calculates the sampling timing on the basis of the discriminated reference timing and the time data, and a sampling sync circuit that specifies the sampling timing of a digital quantity of electricity on the basis of the calculated sampling timing.
