APP 87: SEL-387 and SEL-587 Percentage-Restrained Differential Relays

This course is intended for utility and industrial protection engineers and power system consultants.

APP 87 provides comprehensive application training for the SEL-387 and the SEL‑587 percentage-restrained differential relays, which offer sensitive, high-speed protection for transformer, machine, and bus differential applications. Students (in groups of two) gain hands-on experience in communicating, setting, metering, monitoring, retrieving and analyzing event reports, and performing control functions by working directly with SEL-387 and SEL-587 Relays.

Course topics include:

• Three-phase, dual-slope percentage-restrained differential elements
• Tap, phase, and zero-sequence compensation for transformer differential applications
• Harmonic restraint or blocking for transformer inrush and overexcitation
• Unrestrained differential element
• Multiple phase, negative-sequence, and zero-sequence overcurrent elements
• Restricted earth fault ground differential
• SELogic control equations

Agenda

• Introduction to Transformer Differential Protection
• SEL-587 Relay Overview and Model Options
• Introduction to SELogic Control Equations
• Introduction to acSELerator QuickSet SEL-5030 Software and SEL-AMS
• SEL-587 Differential Settings (includes a class exercise)
• SEL-587 Differential Element Testing Introduction
• Hands-On Differential Element Testing
• SEL-587 Hands-On Analysis

• SEL-387 Relay Overview
• SEL-387 Front-Panel Targets and Display
• SEL-387 Hands-On Meter Checks
• SEL-387 Differential Element Settings (includes a class exercise)
• SEL-387E Hands-On Differential Elements
• SEL-387 Hands-On Analysis
• Introduction to Volts/Hertz Element (includes class exercises)
• Additional SEL-387E Hands-On Testing

Course Objectives

At the conclusion of this course, students can:

• Explain the application considerations of differential protection
• Apply internal or external phase shift and zero-sequence compensation using two different setting methods in both relays
• Use SELogic control equations to customize the relay logic to meet your application requirements
• Analyze Sequential Events Recorder (SER) reports and generate COMTRADE files from event reports
• Explain testing considerations

Prerequisites

Before you attend this class, you must meet the following requirements:

• Completion of CBT 101: Introduction to SEL Relays
OR

• Basic familiarity with protective relaying, SELogic control equations, front-panel controls, and the SEL-4000 Relay Test System, and the ability to operate a personal computer and set up a communications session using HyperTerminal

Course Preparation

Please check the General Course Information page for what you should bring to class. In addition, please make sure that the laptop you bring to class has the following software/features:

• acSELerator QuickSet SEL-5030 Software with the SEL-387 and the SEL-587 drivers and instruction manuals, installed and updated through SEL Compass
• SEL-5401 Software
• SEL-C662 USB Driver