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P40 Agile Enhanced

Utility and Industrial Feeder Management Relay Protection & Control
The P40 Agile Enhanced feeder management relay delivers highly-adaptable protection and control • Comprehensive current, voltage, power and
for utility and industrial feeders alike. It can be applied for primary (main) or backup protection of frequency protection functions
underground cable and overhead line circuits. Fast overcurrent, ground fault, voltage and frequency • Fast protection execution, scan rate
elements form the central core of key performance. Advanced functionality includes extensive 8 times / cycle
programmable logic and flexible configuration capabilities, plus support for industry-leading
• Advanced protection functions including rate
communication protocols. P40 Agile Enhanced provides easy integration into new or existing SCADA of change, autoreclose, synchrocheck and
or DCS for real time situational-awareness. fault location
P40 Agile Enhanced offers comprehensive power quality monitoring, facilitated by a sampling rate
of 64 samples/cycle, plus extensive data-logging capabilities, oscillography and events capture. Such
measurement and recording features empower users to arrive at power network decisions quickly
Advanced Monitoring &
and effectively, thereby improving service reliability and availability levels. Metering
• Harmonics and THD up to the 21st order
Key Benefits • Up to 64 samples/cycle oscillography
• Advanced protection with integrated communications
• Flexible elements for building customized
• Condition monitoring of the relay and health of substation equipment in the bay/cell functions
• Compact design for power distribution applications featuring universal communications, ideal for
on-switchgear installation
• High I/O density – up to 11 inputs /11 outputs - in a case as small as 20TE (4 inch) width
Advanced
• Extensive recording – 2048 events, 25 fault records, disturbance recording at 64 samples / cycle Communications & Control
• Advanced cybersecurity features including AAA, role-based access control, and Syslog • Supports Modbus RTU, Modbus TCP,
IEC 60870-5-103, DNP 3.0 serial, DNP 3.0
• Draw-out design for simplified testing, commissioning and maintenance
Ethernet and IEC 61850 Ed.2 protocols
• Ethernet and serial protocols can operate
Applications concurrently
• Feeder application for utilities, industrial sites, oil and gas, renewable generation connections and • Product with cybersecurity defenses,
transport infrastructure delivered from ISO 27001 ISMS certified plant
• Deploy at distribution voltage levels (as primary protection) up to transmission (as back-up)
• Solidly-grounded, through to systems with constrained fault currents, such as resistance/
impedance grounded systems.
Ease-of-Use
• Networks with connected renewables requiring advanced harmonic monitoring and • Compact and withdrawable
accurate recording • Low depth design (<160 mm)
• Fast protection pass enables load-shedding schemes • Universal voltage binary inputs, universal
• Advanced synchronization and autoreclose schemes 1 A / 5 A CTs and universal power supply
• Single setting file for relay configuration
• No internal battery, for UN3091 air transit
compliance

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Intuitive User Interface Quality Built-in

The front HMI (shown in Figure 1) allows direct device interaction. A USB Quality Built-In methodology is applied throughout the development
front port offers simple PC access without requiring special leads. Tricolor, and manufacturing processes. Parts stress analysis in R&D, rigorous
programmable LEDs provide a cost-effective solution for annunciation. component supplier selection, and a shipping carton compliant with ISTA
Smart dependencies within the menu ensure that settings for unused protection requirements all are examples of best-practice to maximize
elements are hidden and do not complicate viewing by the user. long-life reliability. All circuit boards have harsh environmental coating,
to resist moisture, salt, corrosive atmosphere and industrial ambient
pollution as standard. Circuit board production uses in-circuit tests,
Slot-in user boundary scanning, built-in self-test, automated optical inspection, and
Four tri-color
programmable LEDs labelling X-ray scanning to achieve 100% test coverage.

Four fixed- Refurbishment

function LEDs
In addition to new-build, P40 Agile Enhanced can be used to refurbish
legacy protection schemes. Having lower depth than most 4U relays or
LCD screen electromechanical disk relays in the installed base makes retrofitting
within the existing footprint and AC/DC schematic an easy task.

Hotkeys All models offer:

• Space-saving 4U height (177 mm) and 20TE (4”) width case size
Data reading & Menu • Terminals with IP20 protection, safer within the panel
clear key navigation • A front USB port and rear RS485 and RJ45 ports
• Power-up diagnostics and continuous self-monitoring
USB(B) port
• Freely-programmable opto-isolated binary inputs and output relays
• Watchdog health contact
• Field upgradeable via firmware upgrade to change the relay model
Figure 1 – Front panel interface 20TE (MIDOS SIZE 4) avoiding costly hardware change

20TE Models
Environmental Responsibility 20TE models can accommodate:
The relays are manufactured in a lead-free soldering process using lead- • 1x RS485/IRIG-B interface
free components. Power dissipation is very low, minimizing the burden on • 1x RJ45 Ethernet port
station batteries and keeping the internal electronics cooler to prolong
• Up to 11 binary inputs and 11 binary outputs, depending on the order code
service life. Even the product weight (including packaging) has been
optimized to lessen the transit carbon footprint. All such actions boost
the eco-responsibility demonstrated in the Product Environment Profile
(PEP). The product does not require any resident battery.
The PEP shows claims for raw material depletion, energy depletion, water
depletion, global warming potential, ozone depletion, photochemical
ozone creation, air acidification, and hazardous waste production.

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Feeder Protection Power

Ethernet, graphical programmable logic and field-proven protection, The relay provides four stages of directional power protection per setting
measurement and control algorithms are native in this enhanced range. group. Each stage has one underpower and one overpower element which
can be configured to operate as forward or reverse directional and active
Phase and Ground Fault Overcurrent or reactive.
Six independent stages are available for each phase overcurrent element. The directional power element responds to three-phase directional power
Additional to the definite time and predefined IDMT curve selection, and can be used for reverse power and low forward power applications for
programmable curves for customized operation and resetting are synchronous machines or interconnections involving co-generation.
available. The profile can be chosen to optimize the protection without
constraining the feeder’s loadability. If a standard curve is not suitable for Under / Over voltage
the application, the user can program and upload a custom variant. Under/over voltage protection may be configured to operate from either
Standard ground fault elements are available, with four independent phase-phase or phase-neutral quantities. Four independent stages are
stages. Typically, these operate from the quantity flowing directly in available; available, which can be configured for definite time, inverse
to the relay’s ground (IN) input. The sensitive ground fault (SEF) order time or user defined characteristics.
option allows application on systems whose ground fault currents
are constrained, achieving pickup sensitivities as low as 2 mA. A core
Check Synchronizing
balance CT should be used to drive this SEF CT input. The check synchronizing feature ensures that the CB contacts touch at
the instant of synchronism, minimizing the stress on plant assets when
IEC/UK curves IEEE/US curves paralleling.

Transformer Protection
P40 Agile Enhanced offers the required current protection with second
harmonic blocking, thermal overload protection and instantaneous
restricted ground fault element (REF). REF detects transformer
winding ground faults, and may be configured as high impedance or
low impedance biased differential. Negative sequence overcurrent
protection can be set non-directional or directional (forward/reverse)
and offers detection of remote phase-phase and phase ground faults.

Load shedding
Nine stages each of frequency protection are available (except P14N).
Each may measure in over-, under-, rate of change, and frequency
supervised rate of change modes.

IEC and ANSI/IEEE inverse-time curve profiles The wide range of setting options permits application of any frequency-
based load shedding or islanding scheme.

Special Applications Toolsuite - Overview

Cold load pickup, second harmonic inrush blocking, broken conductor All aspects of P40 Agile Enhanced configuration are managed using the
protection, RMS thermal overload protection, fault location, autoreclose, tool suite software.
switch on to fault, rate of change of frequency elements and check
synchronizing are built-in depending on the selected model number. • IED Engineer • Data Model Management
• System Integration • Tests & Commissioning
• Firmware & License • Maintenance & Monitoring
Distributed Generation Protection • Product Selection • Network/Fault Analysis
Voltage Controlled and Voltage Restrained Overcurrent Single Tool for IED Lifecycle
Voltage-dependent protection boosts sensitivity and reduces tripping • IED configure • Update management
times for faults on weaker systems, such as those with a high prevalence
• Scheme logic design • Troubleshoot & diagnostics
of distributed generation. The timing characteristics can be set as either management
• Digital substation management
definitive time or IDMT inverse.
• Product selector • Fault analyzer
• License management • Network management
• Data model management • Simulation management
• Firmware download management

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Advanced Logic and Control Capabilities

P40 Agile Enhanced incorporates advanced automation capabilities which
exceed those found in most feeder protection relays. This reduces the
need for additional programmable controllers or discrete control relays
by including programmable logic, communication, and HV bay / MV cell
monitoring. Advanced automation also enables seamless integration into
other protection or process systems (SCADA or DCS).

FlexElements TM
FlexElement is a universal comparator, that can be used to monitor any
(analog) value measured or calculated by the relay, or a net difference
of any two analog values of the same type. The element can be
programmed to respond either to a signal level or to a rate-of-change
PSL example
(delta) over a pre-defined period of time. FlexElements can be used to
generate special protection or monitoring functions, allowing the user to
flag a user-defined abnormality for better visibility.
Breaker Health Monitoring
Digital Counters The breaker is monitored by the relay not only for detection of breaker
P40 Agile Enhanced provides sixteen identical digital counters. A digital failure, but also for the overall “breaker health” which includes:
counter counts the number of state transitions from logic 0 to logic 1. The • Breaker close and breaker open times
counters are generally used to count operations such as the pickups of an
• Trip circuit monitoring
element, the changes of state of an external contact (e.g. breaker auxiliary
switch), or the pulses from a watt-hour meter. • Spring charging time
• Per-phase arcing current
Programmable Scheme Logic (PSL) • Trip counters
Programmable Scheme Logic (PSL) is the powerful programming logic
engine that provides the ability to create customized protection and
DC Supply Monitoring
control schemes, minimizing the need for and the associated costs of
auxiliary components and wiring. P40 Agile Enhanced measures the DC auxiliary supply infeed to the device,
to determine whether the supply is within acceptable operational limits.
It is also used to program the optically isolated inputs, relay outputs and Three DC supply monitoring zones are available, for under and overvoltage
LEDs. The logic includes up to 500 OR, AND or majority gates, timers, and alarming. The DC auxiliary supply value can be displayed on the front panel
set/reset latch functions, with the ability to invert the inputs and outputs, LCD. This measurement also assists in auto configuration of binary input
and provide feedback. The relay has 32 PSL timers, where time-slugged pickup thresholds to provide accurate pickup and drop-off.
operation or coordination is required. The PSL imposes no delay on logic
throughput, using concurrent processing instead of sequential equations
to avoid any logic ‘race’ issues. Active Impedance Binary Inputs
P40 Agile Enhanced binary inputs comply to the ESI 48-4 EB2 standard and
Circuit Breaker Control are immune to inductive fields created in substations where wiring runs for
Circuit breaker control is available from the front panel user interface, optically hundreds of meters in the yard and neighboring wires, busbars and power
isolated inputs and remotely via the substation communications. The PSL conductors create strong fields. The inputs support programmable pickup
function can be used to customize the application or operative mode. and drop-off and no spurious pickup during battery ground faults or capacitive
discharges, thereby making them perfect for plant status monitoring.
Switch Status and Control
This feature provides status monitoring XSWI1 XSWI2

and control for up to eight switchgear XCBR

elements. It allows double point status XSWI3
XSWI4
and control over the IEC 61850 protocols
for various types of switches and
disconnectors.

Supervisory and Condition Monitoring Functions

Depending on the hardware base, two stage circuit breaker failure
protection, CT/VT supervision, circuit breaker condition monitoring and
trip circuit supervision are available. Supervision of the trip circuit in both
circuit breaker open and closed states can be realized using the optically Binary inputs immunity to Inductive fields
isolated inputs and programmable scheme logic. Full compliance to the
benchmark H7 supervision scheme is claimed.

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Measurement, Recording and Post-Fault Analysis The concurrent Ethernet protocol feature allows customers to future-
proof their investment by applying this option for applications requiring
The P40 Agile Enhanced offers unmatched power system analytics
support of multiple Ethernet protocols in a single device. Similarly,
through the advanced features and monitoring and recording tools.
ordering the Ethernet option in a device initially connected with a serial
Up to 2048 time-tagged event records are stored in non-volatile memory protocol can provision for a future communications upgrade to Ethernet.
and can be extracted using the communication ports or viewed on the
P40 Agile Enhanced offers 64 virtual inputs, and superior GOOSE
front panel display. Records of the last 25 faults are stored, and fault data
performance.
is also available via the IEC 61850 protocol.
Substation
The internal disturbance recorder has up to 16 analog oscillograph Incomer Automation
channels and 64 digital channels, with a 30 second capacity. A longer Blocking high set
duration transient recorder record ranges from 31 to 1549 cycles (typically element & CB fail
backtrip
half a second to half a minute). Modbus TCP
P40 Agile Enhanced offers comprehensive Power Quality metering by
measuring up to the 21st harmonic for both currents and voltages including
total harmonic distortion (THD). This feature is an ideal fit for monitoring
Modbus
utility, industrial and commercial feeders supplying non-linear loads. RTU/Gateway TCP

HARMONICS Fundamental
3rd Harmonic IEC 60870-5-103 Meters
5th Harmonic
IEC 61850 GOOSE
Amplitude

7th Harmonic
Resultant

Mixed Communication Protocols: Application Example

Cybersecurity
1 3 5 7 9
Time P40 Agile Enhanced delivers a host of cybersecurity features that help
operators to comply with NIS and NERC CIP guidelines, or other security
Power Quality Monitoring & Custom Schemes regulations.
• Authentication/authorization/accounting server support (AAA - Radius)
P40 Agile Enhanced provides a comprehensive datalogging facility • Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
where the average values of analog metering values can be recorded at a • Non-erasable cyber event recorder (Syslog for SEM)
user selectable interval. The datalogger can store information from up to
16 analog channels, selected from any analogue values calculated by the Security Server

relay. Capture rates range from once per nominal power system cycle,
up to once per hour storage.

Local and Remote Communication Access Request:

Role, User,
Authentication Request:
Role, User, Password
P40 Agile Enhanced provides advanced communications technologies for Password Encrypted (SSH)

remote data and engineering access, making it easy and flexible to use
and integrate into new and existing networks. Providing several Ethernet
and serial port formats and supporting a wide range of industry standard
protocols, the relay can be integrated directly into DCS and SCADA systems.
The following protocols are supported:
• Modbus (RS485 serial and Ethernet)
• IEC 60870-5-103 serial
Authentication Request:
• DNP3.0 (RS485 serial and Ethernet) Role, User, Password
Encrypted (SSH)
• IEC 61850 edition 2
All of the serial protocols - Modbus, IEC 60870-5-103 and DNP 3.0 - are
Cyber Security with Radius Authentication
switchable in settings and site-selectable for customer use. Similarly,
once the Ethernet interface is ordered, all the Ethernet protocols (Modbus
RTU, IEC 61850 and DNP 3.0) are available for selection.

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Testing and Simulation

P40 Agile Enhanced provides a facility to simulate current and voltage inputs. Other test operations are also possible such as the LED lamp test for each
color, contact input states and testing of output relays.
The simulation feature tests the response to programmed conditions, without the need of external AC voltage and current inputs. First time users will find
this to be a valuable training tool. System parameters such as currents, voltages and phase angles are entered as setpoints.
When placed in simulation mode, the relay suspends reading actual AC inputs, generates samples to represent the programmed phasors, and loads these
samples into the memory to be processed by the relay. Normal (pre-fault), fault and post-fault conditions can be simulated to exercise a variety of relay features.

Model Variants and Intended Application

MODEL HARDWARE BASE INTENDED APPLICATION CASE
P14NB P14N Non-directional feeder 20TE
P14NL P14N Non-directional feeder with autoreclose 20TE
P14DB P14D Directional feeder 20TE
P14DL P14D Advanced directional feeder with autoreclose and check synchronizing 20TE
P94VB P94V Voltage and frequency 20TE
P94VP P94V Voltage and frequency with autoreclose and check synchronizing 20TE

NON-DIRECTIONAL DIRECTIONAL VOLTAGE & FREQUENCY

ANSI CODE FUNCTION P14NB P14NL P14DB P14DL P94VB P94VP

50 Definite time overcurrent protection 6 6 6 6
50N/G Neutral / Ground definite time overcurrent protection 4 4 4 4
(Derived and Measured)
51 IDMT overcurrent 3 3 3 3
51N/G Neutral / Ground IDMT overcurrent protection 2 2 2 2
50/51SEF Sensitive ground fault 4 4 4 4
68 Inrush blocking • • • •
Cold load pick up • • • •
46 Negative sequence overcurrent 8 8 8 8
46BC Broken conductor 4 4 4 4
Programmable curves 4 4 4 4
67 Directional phase overcurrent 6 6
67N/G Directional neutral/ground overcurrent 4 4
Sensitive directional ground fault 4 4
Blocking scheme • • • •
67_2 Directional negative sequence overcurrent 4 4
37 Undercurrent detection (loss of load) • • • •
32 Phase directional power (Forward/Reverse/Under/Over) 4
49 Thermal overload (current replica) • • • •
64N Restricted ground fault • • • •
50BF CB failure • • • • • •
21FL Fault locator •
27/59 Undervoltage/overvoltage 4/4 4/4 4/4 4/4
27V/59V Positive sequence undervoltage/overvoltage 2/2 2/2 2/2 2/2
59N Residual overvoltage 4 4 4 4
47 Negative sequence overvoltage • • • •
79 Autoreclose (number of shots) 4 4 4
25 Check synchronizing • •
81O Overfrequency 9 9 9 9
81U Underfrequency 9 9 9 9
81V Undervoltage blocking of frequency protection • • • •
81df/dt Rate of change of frequency (dv/dt) 9 9
64N Restricted ground fault (REF) • • • •
PSL Programmable scheme logic • • • • • •
86 Latching output contacts (Lockout) • • • • • •
Switch status control • • • • • •
VTS VT supervision • •
CTS CT supervision • • • •
DC supply supervision • • • • • •
CB condition monitoring • • • •
Pole discrepancy • • • •
Setting groups 4 4 4 4 4 4

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Wiring Diagram - Hardware Overview

NON-DIRECTIONAL DIRECTIONAL VOLTAGE & FREQUENCY
FUNCTION P14NB P14NL P14DB P14DL P94VB P94VP
Trip circuit supervision (H7 scheme) Supported
Rear communication port (software selectable to convert into demodulated IRIG-B) RS485
2nd Rear communication port option RJ45 Ethernet
Communication Protocols IEC 103, Modbus, DNP3.0, Modbus TCP, DNP3 Ethernet, IEC 61850*
Digital inputs min./max. hardware option 5/11
Output relays min./max. hardware option 7/11
CT (AC current) inputs : 1 and 5 A software selectable 3Ph + N
VT (AC voltage) inputs : 100/120 V 4

* Refer to cortec code for possible combinations

A
DIRECTION OF FORWARD CURRENT FLOW
P2 P1
A
S2 S1
C B B
PHASE ROTATION C
A B C
C B A
A.C./D.C. SUPPLY

-/N +/L
N
A7
n 1 TX+
A2 A1
V CHECK 2 TX-
SYNC 3 RX+ RJ45
c b a A8 4 10 BASE-T/
B1 5 100 BASE-TX
6 RX-
IA B2
N 7
B3 8
n
IB B4

a b c B5
IC B6

B7 B
+ COM1
IN B8 A EIARS485/IRIG-B
- COMMUNICATIONS
GND
VA A3
P14D
VB A4
TCS +
VC A5 ETHERNET
A6
OPTO 1 +
D1
D2
OPTO 2 + D9
OPTO ISOLATED
BINARY INPUTS D10 RL1
D3
OPTO 3 +
OPEN DELTA VT CONNECTION D11
D4 RL2
OPTO 1,2,3 - D12
A + D13
D5
B OPTO 4 D14 RL3
D6
C OPTO ISOLATED -
TCS INPUTS + D15
D7 RELAY OUTPUT
C OPTO 5 D16 RL4
D8 CONTACTS
- D17
A RL5
D18

OPTO 6 + D19
B C1
D20 RL6
C2
OPTO 7 + D21
D22 RL7
C3
OPTO 8 +
D23
C4
OPTIONAL OPTO 6,7,8 - D24 RELAY HEALTHY
VA VB VC N OPTO ISOLATED
OPTO 9 +
A3 A4 A5 A6 BINARY INPUTS C5
C6 C9
OPTO 10 +
C10 RL8
C7 C11
NOTES OPTO 11 +
C12 RL9 OPTIONAL
C8
1. EARTH CONNECTIONS OPTO 9,10,11 - RELAY OUTPUT
C13
ARE TYPICAL ONLY. CONTACTS
C14 RL10
C15
C16 RL11

CASE EARTH
CONNECTION

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