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    The REA Arc Protection System from ABB provides substations with comprehensive protection against arc faults. It minimizes material damage and allows safe power restoration. The system utilizes patented long-fiber sensor technology which enables fail-safe and instantaneous arc detection anywhere in the switchgear. This promotes quick reaction times to isolate arcs before damage occurs.

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    REA10 751404 LRENe

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    The REA Arc Protection System from ABB provides substations with comprehensive protection against arc faults. It minimizes material damage and allows safe power restoration. The system utilizes patented long-fiber sensor technology which enables fail-safe and instantaneous arc detection anywhere in the switchgear. This promotes quick reaction times to isolate arcs before damage occurs.

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    The REA Arc Protection System from ABB provides substations with comprehensive protection against arc faults. It minimizes material damage and allows safe power restoration. The system utilizes patented long-fiber sensor technology which enables fail-safe and instantaneous arc detection anywhere in the switchgear. This promotes quick reaction times to isolate arcs before damage occurs.

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    REA10 751404 LRENe

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    The REA Arc Protection System from ABB provides substations with comprehensive protection against arc faults. It minimizes material damage and allows safe power restoration. The system utilizes patented long-fiber sensor technology which enables fail-safe and instantaneous arc detection anywhere in the switchgear. This promotes quick reaction times to isolate arcs before damage occurs.

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    Arc Protection System REA

    Minimizes material damage and allows smooth,


    safe power restoration
    Supplied with a value-adding information package
    Enables fail-safe and instantaneous arc detection
    Patented fiber-optic loops and flexible overcurrent
    monitoring for total protection
    Technology promotes quick reaction and
    cost-effective installation

    The REA Arc Protection System Opening a new perspective nology, which enables fail-safe and instan­
    The REA Arc Protection System is more taneous arc detection anywhere within the
    The REA Arc Protection System from
    than a first-class product. It is supplied switchgear enclosure. This tough, unshield­
    ABB provides your substation with with a value-adding information package ed fiber-optic cable runs throughout the
    about the product that lets you get the switchgear enclosure and senses the in­
    comprehensive protection against arc
    most from it in your application. Information tense light from a developing arc, no matter
    faults. It minimizes material damage such as technical data, user documentation where it strikes.
    and connection diagrams is essential to
    and allows power distribution to be
    ensure smooth and efficient use of the Faster protection than ever
    smoothly and safely restored. This relay throughout its lifetime. Among other advantages, long-fiber tech­
    system can also bring cost benefits nology promotes quick reaction and cost-
    Long-fiber technology effective installation, which is ideally suited
    even before an arc fault occurs. As for increased safety to multi-chamber low or medium voltage
    older switchgear is more prone to arc The key to efficient protection is the imme­ air-insulated switchgears. It is here that
    diate detection of arcs. The REA system the system’s fast Insulated Gate Bipolar
    faults, fitting an ABB arc protection utilizes a patented long-fiber sensor tech­ Transistor (IGBT) solid-state circuits react
    system will effectively extend the life instantly (<2.5 ms) to isolate the arc, long
    before any extensive damage can occur,
    of your switchgear and make more of causing long and devastatingly expensive
    your investment. But even more impor­ downtime.

    tantly, this technology can also help


    save lives.
    Technical Data
    Peace of mind guaranteed The intelligent investment
    REA Arc Protection System
    The REA Arc Protection System is second that minimizes material damage
    to none when it comes to reliability: con­ Whether caused by human error, a faulty Functions and features
    tinuous self-monitoring of the system, and device or bad insulators, arc faults expose • Extremely short overall
    its fiber-optic loops ensure non-stop pro­ your switchgear and other costly equip­ operating time (<2.5 ms)

    tection. Flexible overcurrent monitoring ment to severe pressure and heat, not to • Fast, adjustable three-phase overcurrent
    or two-phase overcurrent and neutral current
    allows both light or light and overcurrent mention the danger to human life. Simply condition to secure tripping
    operation to trigger a circuit-breaker for put, the REA Arc Protection System is the • Long-sensor fiber or light collecting
    absolute security. Furthermore, the system far-sighted way to improve productivity lenstype sensors

    can be installed in either retrofit installations and increase profits while enhancing safety. • Current measurement with inbuilt CTs

    or greenfield investments. Selective indi­ It is a secure investment in your future • Circuit-breaker failure protection
    cation and zone-divided protection are competitiveness in more ways than one • Continuous self-supervision of sensor fiber
    loops,operating voltages and cabling
    easy to implement. Extension units allow and will pay for itself many times over. between central units and extension units
    single feeders or bus bars to be isolated, • Wide area automatic or manual backlight
    maintaining the power supply even in the compensation

    event of an arc incident. Combined with • Power consumption 9...12 W


    zone-divided protection, this allows you
    to pinpoint exactly where the arc occurred. The REA 101 Central unit:
    What’s more, if one feeder is isolated during • Two high-speed solid-state (Insulated Gate
    maintenance, the rest of the system re­ Bipolar Transistor) outputs for tripping CBs

    mains fully protected against arcs. • Selective tripping by additional


    extension units

    • Two opto-connectors for fast signal transfer


    of light/current/trip signals between
    central units

    • Relay output for circuit-breaker failure


    protection or as an alarm output
    • Two RJ-45-type ports for chaining max.
    5 extension units per port

    Extension units for detecting the arc:

    REA 103
    • Two sensor fibers in loop or radial
    arrangement
    • Two signal relays activated by light

    REA 105
    • Loop-type or radial sensor fiber

    • Two high-speed semi-conductor outputs


    for tripping CBs

    • Signal relay activated by light


    • Can serve as link between two
    REA 101 relays

    REA 107

    • Eight lens sensors in radial arrangement


    • Two signal relays activated by light

    Trip
    REA 101
    3

    Trip

    Light

    REA 103 REA 103


    Printed in Finland /06/2005 1MRS 751 404

    ABB Oy
    Distribution Automation
    P.O. Box 699
    FI-65101 VAASA, Finland
    Phone: +358 10 22 11
    Fax: +358 10 22 41094
    www.abb.com/substationautomation

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