Description
System role in protection hierarchy
Typical grid placement:
- Busbar protection: REB670 / REB500
- Bay control: REC650 / REC670
- Line protection: ABB RED670
Application zones:
- EHV transmission lines (132 kV / 220 kV / 400 kV class)
- Long inter-substation feeders
- Ring and meshed transmission networks
- Critical intertie lines between grid zones
This relay is the “first line of defense” for transmission line faults.
Key technical specifications (field-relevant summary)
Based on ABB Relion 670 platform architecture:
- Series: ABB Relion 670
- Device type: Line differential protection relay
- Protection principle: Phase-segregated current differential protection
- Communication: Fiber optic / pilot wire channel between substations
- IEC 61850: MMS + GOOSE supported (system dependent)
- Protection speed: typically sub-cycle operation (≈1–2 cycles depending configuration)
- Backup protection: distance protection, overcurrent, earth fault (optional configuration)
- CT supervision: CT saturation detection and stabilization logic
- Fault recording: COMTRADE disturbance records
- Applications: transmission lines, cable feeders, interconnectors
- Mounting: withdrawable plug-in rack module system
- Supply: 48–250 V DC or AC/DC variants (hardware dependent)





