ERL NEWS

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HON'BLE CM SIDDARAMAIAH INAUGURATES

EASUN GROUP STALL AT ELECRAMA-2014
Every time, it has been a tradition for ERL to
participate in the Elecrama exhibition but this year
proved to be the most memorable. It was a moment
of great pride and joy when the Easun Group stall
was inaugurated by Hon'ble Chief Minister of
Karnataka, Siddaramaiah, in the presence of our
Managing Director and present President of
IEEMA, Mr. Raj H Eswaran at Elecrama-2014.
Speaking at the event, Mr. Raj Eswaran affirmed,
“We are honored to have Karnataka as the Official
Partner State and received full support from
Government of Karnataka to make the event a
The theme of the exhibition was “Go Global”, an
global reference point. Our aim is to show case
indication of the tremendous opportunity in India
global competitiveness of products manufactured in
and overseas. We made the most of this valuable
India.”
opportunity by showing our best to the world. We,
the Easun Group, comprising Easun Reyrolle Ltd,
Easun MR and Easun Products of India displayed
our state-of-art products and solutions at the event.
Our overseas branches ERL Phase Power
Technologies Ltd, Canada and ERL Switchcraft,
Germany showcased end-to-end solutions for the
T&D Sector. All these were displayed in a well-
designed and spacious stall of 296 sqm.
A wide array of products and solutions ranging
from IEC 61850 compliance Protection Relays for
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EHV, HV and MV markets to Wide Area Public Enterprises, Ministry of Commerce and
Monitoring Solution, Scada/Automation Industry for promoting international business,
Solution, Metering Solution, T&D Protection & Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India.
Automation, Power System Recorder & PMU with It has for the first time, received the support of a
Sub-harmonic Protection, Digital Substation state government that is the Government of
solution, Advanced Busbar Protection with Process Karnataka.
Bus Technology, SF6 Insulated & Secondary
Distribution Switchgear, Embedded Pole Vacuum
Circuit Breaker, Medium Voltage Vacuum
Contactors and so on were displayed by ERL
Group.
Elecrama-2014 was organised by the Indian
Electrical & Electronics Manufacturers Association
(IEEMA) and is the largest focused exhibition in the
world of electrical transmission and distribution
equipment industry. Held biennially in India since
1990, this attracts exhibitors and participants from
all over the world. The event sharply brought in focus the competitive
edge that we have in the market.
This time, the symposium was held at the
It has opend up many new avenues to enhance our
Bangalore International Exhibition Center (BIEC)
business and also plenty of opportunities. Every
from January 8-12, 2014. It was supported by the
effort put into this initiative has yielded far more.
Ministry of Power, Ministry of Heavy Industries and

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Move to the Next Generation:
Transition to 4000 Series Protection Relays
ERL devotes a lot of time, effort
and resources to R&D. The
result is that customers get
technology and product
updates that promise better
value for money. ERLPhase is
pleased to announce to our
relay customers that our 4000
series of protection products
which is now complete with the
addition of the F-PRO 4000
and the advanced B-PRO 4000
Multibus. This should delight
our relay customers as these not
only include the latest
innovations but also assure a
smooth transition from older
generation relays in your
system.
ERL's High Speed F-PRO 4000 Promises Complete
Feeder Management with High Speed Protection
ERL is proud to present the F-PRO 4000 which offers
high speed protection as well as complete
management and control of distribution feeders.
The F-PRO 4000 provides easy-to-use, state-of-the-
art comprehensive feeder management protection,
s t a n d a r d r i n g b u s c a p a b i l i t y, r e c l o s i n g ,
demand/trend metering and recording, fault
location, SCADA control and metering in a fully
integrated protective relay solution.
Protection & Control
Protection functions include IEEE devices 50LS,
50BF, 50/51/67, 50N/51N/67, 46-50/46-
51/67, 50G/51G/67, 25/27/59 (25C), 21P,
59, 27, 32(P&Q), 60, 79, 81, and THD
 Unique Breaker Logic functions for breaker
failure detection and monitoring
 Watt, VAR flow detectors as well as
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The 4000 series of protection
relays are built on a new, fully
type-tested hardware platform
that reflects the processing
T-PRO
power, communications and
HMI to accommodate your
current and future needs. At the
same time, they maintain the
same footprint and the same L-PRO
easy-to-use configuration as
our existing products. If you are
using our PRO series of relays,
you are already prepared to
B-PRO
use the 4000 series.
All products have a life cycle
and we will be ceasing
production of our 2000 series
protection products F-PRO
undervoltage, overvoltage and over/under
frequency functions (Freq ROC) to provide
protection for issues such as inter-tie protection
needs
 Enhanced user-configurable logic – with
ProLogic which includes 10 control logic
statements
 8 setting groups with unique Group Logic
Control Statements – full Boolean graphics to
create logic for setting groups switching based
on a combination of given conditions
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Highlights
 Easy-to-use, install, and maintain
 Easy to order – no complex product codes
 User-friendly, Windows®-based relay setting
and record analysis software
 Setting software tool – relay specific
application
 On-Line setting tool
 Flexible programmable logic for building
customized schemes with ProLogic statements –
24 control logic statements (total of 192
statements)

Customer Service Excellence

ERL has always believed in
providing good customer support
and we are known for our
customer service excellence. Our
committed and experienced team
of application engineers provide
training, application support and
recommendations to solve a
client's most critical power
monitoring needs. We promise
quick and reliable service. We
also have a strong service and
repair facility manned by
ERL/ERLPhase-trained
technicians. Services include
servicing and repair of products
under warranty and non-
warranty to spare parts.

ERL Launches Advanced B-PRO 4000

Multi-Busbar Protection System
We are proud to present our latest offering, the B-PRO
4000 Multi-Busbar system which provides protection
for any bus bar configuration with 3 differential
zones and a check zone. Its scalable architecture
ushers in the flexibility of employing the most cost
effective hardware combinations, based on the
actual number of zones and number of current inputs
in the bus system. For example, protection for 23
feeders plus one bus tie breaker can be provided
using four B-PRO 4000 relays communicating with
each other.
This state-of-art system provides current differential
bus protection, circuit breaker failure protection, end  Integrated Breaker Fail Protection with single
fault protection, backup over current protection, phase initiation, End Zone Protection and Over
independent check zone, open CT and advanced Current Protection for each input current
saturation detection for EHV bus-bars. It also  Isolator and CB status monitoring and alarming
provides control, automation, metering, monitoring,
fault oscillography, event logging, and dynamic  Delta Phase and Rate of Change of Differential
swing recording with advanced communication in a (ROCOD) algorithms provide enhanced security
flexible cost effective package. during external faults with heavy CT saturation

The highlights of this system are:
 Easy to use, intuitive setting and analysis software
 Dynamic Bus Replica
 Use 1 x B-PRO 4000 relay for every 6 x 3-phase
CT inputs configured for the bus differential
element
 High quality fault recording and event log
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ERLPhase Receives Certification for B-PRO 4000

We congratulate ERLPhase
P o w e r Te c h n o l o g i e s o n
receiving the coveted IEC
61850 protocol certification for
its B-PRO 4000 Bus Protection
Relay. This was issued by the
Central Power Research Institute
of India, this independent
assessment is based on the UCA
International Users Group
Device Test Procedures. The IEC
61850 Station Bus protocol (8-
1) is offered as a standard
feature on all 4000 Series
relays and recorders.
The IEC 61850 standard was
developed by to ensure
interoperability of substation
automation devices. Beginning
in 1995, an IEC project group
of about 60 members from
different countries worked in 3
IEC working groups to create a
single protocol which would:
define basic services required
to transfer data in the future,
promote interoperability
between vendor systems,
standardize on a common
format for data storage, and
define testing requirements for
conformance to the standard.

ERL Bags Prestigious New Project

The New Year brings new cheer! We have received a

large order from RRVPNL for the Supply of 80 nos.
Numerical Bus Bar Protection Schemes for the 220kV
Grid Substation against Tender Specification No.
2948. Our B-PRO Relay has been approved for this
project.We congratulate the team.

Quizzes & Creativity Mark Quality Day Celebrations

Quality Month was celebrated at ERL recently. A daily online

quiz was conducted and winners were announced throughout
the month. Ms. Uma Maheswari, Mr. A. K. Raju,
Mr. Magendiran and Ms. Jamuna were the weekly winners
during the month and Ms. Thamizhselvi was the mega winner
of the month for giving the right answers on all the days. They
were given prizes.
An Audio Visual Quiz was conducted at the Hosur unit on the
special day of 29th November, 2013. The event commenced
with five teams of 4 members each with a homogenous mix of
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Manufacturing) emerged the winners with a healthy

lead in their points.
Mrs. Mathuravani. R, Head-Quality was the judge
and Mr. Buvanesh Kumar. B from HR team was the
quiz master. Mr. Gomathi Srinivasan and Mr. Bharath
Kumar from QA were the official scorer and Time
Keeper.

employees from different functions. The event was

spread across three rounds. The first one was a
multiple choice question and the second a Visual

Mr. Sriram. S. V, Head-SCM and Mr. Sathiyaseelan,

DGM-Operations were the special guests for the
evening. They stressed the importance of such events
that create a vital informal learning environment that
brings the opportunity for knowledge sharing and
personal enhancement. The special guests gave
away the prizes to the participants. Mrs. Mathuravani
delivered the Vote of Thanks.
Connection round. Each team were given random
images, which they had to relate to a quality concept.
This gave us amazing insights into different quality
concepts and the participants displayed amazing skill
and creativity in connecting random and funny
images to the topic. The third round was given in the
form of a crossword puzzle containing terms and
topics related to quality. The participants involved
themselves enthusiastically and came up with
wonderful and creative answers to each question
thrown at them.
Finally the Team consisting of Mr. Selvam (PPB-
Assembly), Mr. Baskar. V (SWG-Engineering), Ms.
Uma Maheswari (SWG-Purchase), Mr.Murali.S (PSB-

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Mr. Mukund Honoured at Faculty Development Program

The Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai

organized a two-day Faculty Development Program
on Smart Grid Technologies-Issues& Challenges in
collaboration with Central Power Research &
Institute, Bangalore on 17th and 18th October.

The other topics dealt with inb-depth were the

paradigm shift with intelligence built in the
protection, measuring & control systems,
the introduction of the concept of smart grid in 2003
and its direction, present day technology to be
incorporated in Smart Grid, remote controlled with
The participants consisted of Professors, Assistant common open protocol using intelligent IEDs, Smart
Professors and Research Scholars from Technical Meters, Optical CTs, VTs, Process Bus, Merging
Universities across Tamil Nadu. Units, PMUs, WAMS & WAPS.
Mr. Mukund, Head-Technical Support Business of His presentation was lucid and engaging and was
ERL was bestowed the honour of being the Chief greatly appreciated by the participants as well as
Guest for the program. After the customary the organizers. We are proud of him.
invocation, welcome address and presidential
address, he made his address for about 100
minutes. His valuable speech provided a complete
overview of Smart Grid Technology. This included
Michel Faradays’s discovery of Electromagnetic
Induction in 1831, the first commercial
development Single phase Alternator in 1896 to
deliver power over a distance of 0.5 Kms, evolution
of power grids in the last 100 years and the advent
of unconventional Generation (Wind, Solar, Tidal
etc) and merging them with the Power Grids.

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