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Over current relays have been found unsuitable for the protection of
transmission lines because of their inherent drawbacks of variable
reach and variable operating time due to changes in source
impedance and fault type.
Distance relays are double actuating quantity relays with one coil
energized by voltage and the other coil energized by current. As shown
in the figure.
The torque produced is such that when V/I reduces below a set value,
the relay operates.
During a fault on a transmission line the fault current increases and the
voltage at fault point reduces.
For 132kV and 220kV systems, the recent trend is to use carrier current
protection where relaying unit used are distance relays. In case of
failure of carrier signal, they act as back-up protection.
= K3 V I cos (θ- ĩ)
where
T = K1 I2 + K2 V2 + K3 V I cos (θ- ĩ) + K4
where
2) Reactance relays
3) MHO relays
5) Quadrilateral relays
The relay monitors continuously the line current I through CT and the
bus voltage V through PT and operates when the V/I ratio falls below
the set value.
Impedance…
Construction
Thus for any fault between A-B similar to that shown at point X the
impedance under fault condition will be less than the predetermined
value of impedance ZL and relay will operate.
Impedance…
Operating characteristics:
T = K1 I 2 − K 2V 2 + K 4 since (K3 = 0)
Neglecting the effect of the spring used, which is very small, the torque
equation can be written as
T = K1 I 2 − K 2V 2
This means the operating torque is produced by the current coil and the
restraining torque by the voltage coil, which means that an impedance
relay is a voltage restrained over-current relay.
Impedance…
V2 K1
<
I2 K2
V
<K where K is constant
I
Z<K
The relay operates if the measured impedance Z is less than the given
constant.
Impedance…
Any value of Zf less than the radius of the circle produces positive
torque. Any value of Zf more than the radius, of circle produces a
negative torque and relay does not operate.
Impedance…
The relay unit used for distance protection are double actuating quantity
instantaneous relays.
Disadvantages
Directional features senses the direction in which the fault power flows
with respect to the location of CT and VT. Directional impedance relay
operates for following conditions:
Impedance between fault point and relay location is less than the relay
setting Z.
The fault power flows in a particular direction from relay location. The
direction power flow is sensed by measuring phase angle between
voltage and current.
Angle ROY = α depends upon the phase angle between V and I with
given setting of directional element, the operating torque is positive
within the semi-circle with radius Z and on right hand side of the
inclined line of directional characteristic DD‘
For faults on one side of the relay location, angle ‘α’ lies between angle
DOD'. Hence relay operates for two conditions:
(i) Locus OXY should have angle α with angle DOD' given by
Directional Feature.
T = K1VI cos(φ − θ )
where
T = Torque
K1 = Constant
T =0
hence cos (Φ - θ ) =0
i.e. (Φ - θ ) = ± 900
T = K1 I 2 − K 2(V + DI ) 2 (V + DI )
is the voltage supplied to voltage coil of impedance relay.
T = K1 I2 - K3 V I cos (θ- ĩ)
= K1 I2 - K3 V I sin θ
Reactance…
for the operation of the relay,
K1 I2 > K3 V I sin θ
VI K1
2
sin θ <
I K3
K1
Z sin θ <
K3
K1
X <
K3
Reactance…
If directional unit is added then it will not trip for high power factor load.
Mho or Admittance Relay
In the impedance relay a separate unit is required to make it directional,
while the same unit can not be used to make a reactance relay with
directional feature.
T = K3 V I cos (θ- ĩ) - K2 V2
V 2 K3
< cos(θ − τ )
VI K2
K3
Z< cos(θ − τ )
K2
This is the equation of a circle having diameter ‘K3/K2’ passing through
origin. And this constant ‘K3/K2’ is the ohmic setting of the relay.
Mho…
Operating Characteristics
The relay operates when the impedance seen by the relay falls within
this circle. This shows that this relay is inherently directional without
any additional directional unit required.
The angle ‘α’ can be adjusted to be 45o, 60o, 75o and so on. This
angle is maximum torque angle.
Mho…
The setting of 45 o is used for high voltage (33 or 11 kV) distribution
lines, the setting 60o is used for 66 or 132 kV lines while the setting
of 75o is used for 275 and 400kV lines.
Consider the figure. which consist of two line sections AB and CD; it is
desired to provide distance protection scheme.
The protection scheme is divided in three zones. Say for relay at A, the
three zones are Z1a, Z2a and Z3a.
This unit is not to set to protect the entire line to avoid undesired
tripping due to over reach. If the relay operates for a fault beyond the
protected line, this phenomena is called over reach.
Distance…
Second zone Z2a for relay at A covers remaining 20% length of the line
AB and 20% of the adjoining line. In case of a fault in this section relay
at A will operate when the time elapsed corresponds to the ordinate
Z2a.
The main idea of second zone is to provide protection for the remaining
20% section of the line AB.
Incase the feeder is being fed from both the ends and say the fault
takes place in the second zone of line AB (20% of the line AB), the
relay at B will operate instantaneously (because it lies in the first zone
of BA) where as the fault lies in the second zone of the relay at A.
The mho relay occupies the least space on an R-X diagram for a given
line section and is, therefore least affected by abnormal system
conditions except the line faults.
Since mho relay is most affected by arc resistance, it is used for long
lines. This relay is more reliable than the other two because the relay
has one set of contacts.
Applications of Distance…
The impedance relay is less affected from synchronizing power surges
as compared to reactance relay and also this relay is less affected
from arc resistance as compared with the mho relay. The impedance
relay is, therefore, used for protecting medium length transmission
lines.
“S M L R I M”
1. The differential relay has at least two actuating quantities say I1, I2,
3. The relay responds to the vector difference between the two i.e. to
I1 – I2, which includes magnitude and/or phase angle difference.
Differential…
Differential protection is generally unit protection. The protected zone is
exactly determined by location of CT's or VTs. The vector difference is
achieved by suitable connections of current transformer or voltage
transformer secondary's.
Differential…
Applications of Differential Protection
The operating coil of the over current relay is connected at the middle of
the pilot wires.
Differential…
Simple ( basic) Differential Relay or Merz-Price Protection Scheme
Merz-Price …
Behavior of Simple Differential Protection during Normal
Condition
The CTs are of such a ratio that their secondary currents are equal
under normal conditions or for external (through) faults.
Under normal conditions the secondary currents I1s and I2s of CT1 and
CT2 respectively are equal to the secondary load current I’L.
Merz-Price…
The secondary currents, under normal conditions simply circulate
through the secondary windings of the two CTs and the pilot leads
connecting them, and there is no current through the spill or difference
circuit , where the instantaneous over current (OC) relay is connected.
Hence, the OC relay does not operate to trip the circuit breakers (CBs).
Since the currents circulate in the CT secondary's this differential
protection scheme is called “ circulating current differential protection
scheme or “ Merz-Price protection scheme.
hence, I1 = I2 = IF
where n = CT ratio
If the differential currents (I1s-I2s) is higher than the pick-up value of the
over current relay, the relay will operate and both the circuit breakers
will be tripped out isolating the protected equipment from the system.
Merz-Price…
Disadvantages of Simple Differential Protection Scheme
This relay has two coils. One coil is known as restraining coil or bias
coil which restrains (inhibits) the operation of the relay.
Percentage …
The another coil is the operating coil which produces the operating
torque for the relay.
When the operating torque exceeds the restraining torque, the relay
operates. The operating coil is connected to the mid-point of the
restraining coil as shown in figure.
Nr and No are the total number of turns of the restraining coil and the
operating coil respectively.
Since the restraining coil is tapped at the centre, it forms two sections
with equal number of turns, Nr/2.
Percentage …
Thus it can be assumed that the entire Nr turns of the restraining coil
carries a current (I1s+I2s)/2.
Ir = (I1s+I2s)/2
Id = K Ir
The percentage differential relay does not have a fixed pick-up value.
The relay automatically adapts its pick-up value to the restraining
(through) current.
It is the ratio of the number of turns in the restraining coil (Nr) to the
turns in the operating coil (No). Or
( I 1s − I 2 s )
% Bias (k) = N × 100
r
× 100 = ( I 1s + I 2 s ) / 2
No
10% for generators and 20%-40% for transformers.
Balanced (Opposed) Voltage Differential Protection
In this case, the secondary's of the CTs (CT1 and CT2) are connected
in such a way that under normal operating conditions and during
external faults, the secondary currents of CTs on two sides oppose
each other and their voltages are balanced. Hence no current flows in
pilot wires and relays.
If the differential current flowing through the relay coils is higher than
the pick-up value, the relays operate to isolate the protected equipment
from the system.
Balanced …
This creates large flux causing saturation of CTs and inducing high over
voltages which can damage the insulation of CT secondary's.
For this reason, the CTs used in such protective scheme are air-core
type so that the core does not get saturated and overvoltage's are not
induced during zero secondary current under normal operating mode.
Feeder Protection
There are several methods of protection of transmission lines. The first
group of non-unit type of protection which includes
2. Distance protection
a. Pilot wire differential protection For important lines of relatively shorter length
(a few tens of km).
b. Carrier Current Protection Where length of transmission line is long and
simultaneous opening of circuit-breakers at
both ends is necessary.
Pilot Wire Protection using Circulating Current Differential
Relaying
The differential circulating current protection principle can be readily
applied to feeder protection. Two CT's are connected in each protected
line, one at each end. Under healthy/external fault conditions the
secondary currents are equal and circulate in pilot wires.
An induction disc type relay is used at each end of the protected line
section.
In this condition the relay torque is produced from the interaction of the
two fluxes, one of which is produced directly from the local CT
secondary current flowing through the upper magnet of the relay.
The second flux is produced by the current flowing through the lower
magnet. The current flowing through the lower magnet is relatively
small. Therefore, this scheme is suitable for fairly long pilots having
loop resistance up to 1000 ohm.
Transley…
The Pilot wires are put at the same time along with power conductors.
In cable systems, Pilot cables are put in the same trench of power
cable.
Voltages are induced in pilot wires due to the field of power conductors:
This voltage should be limited to 5-15 volts.
Overhead Pilot wires are exposed to lightening and high voltage
surges. They must be protected by means of lightning arresters.
Similarly they should not come in contact with power circuit.
According to the rules the voltage across Pilot is limit to about 200V
and current to 200mA.
For short lines of less than 16 km the Pilot wires give most economical
form of high speed relaying. For lines up to 16 km Pilot wire protection
is popular, It used even for lines up to 50 km .in rare cases.
In this scheme the conductor of the power line to be protected are used
for the transmission of carrier signals. So the pilot is termed as a power
line carrier.
The main disadvantage of conventional time-stepped distance
protection is that the circuit breakers at both ends of the line do not trip
simultaneously when a fault occurs at one of the end zones of the
protected line section. This may cause instability in the system.
Line trap unit is inserted between bus bar and connection of coupling
capacitor to the line.
This unit prevents the high frequency signals from entering the
neighboring line, and the carrier currents flow only in the protected line.
3. Protection and Earthing of Coupling Equipment
The high frequency signals arriving from remote end are received by
Receiver. The receivers, the signal sand feeds to carrier receiving relay
unit
Pilot channel such are carrier current over the power line provides
simultaneous tripping of circuit-breakers at both the ends of the line in
one to three cycles. Thereby high speed fault clearing is obtained,
which improves the stability of the power system.
(c) Telemetering
Bus zone/Busbar Protection
Differential Current Protection
• The relay is connected to trip all the circuit breakers. In case of a bus
fault the algebraic sum of currents will not be zero and relay will
operate.
• The main drawback of this scheme is that there may be false operation
in case of an external fault . (saturation of CTs)
Figure. Differential current protection of bus-zone
High Impedance Relay Scheme
• The tuning circuit makes the relay insensitive to dc and harmonics there
by making it more stable on heavy external faults.
Protection of Generators
i. Field suppression
j. Back-up protection
stator…
1. Stator Protection
(a) Percentage Differential Protection
stator…
Stator…
Principle of Operation
When there is no fault in the windings and for through faults, the
currents in the pilot wires fed from CT connections are equal. The
differential current I1-I2 is zero.
Stator…
When fault occurs inside the protected winding, the balance is
disturbed and the differential current I1-I2 flows through the operating
coil of relays causing relay operation.
low setting
While selecting the value of resistor and earth fault relay setting, the
following aspects should be kept in mind :
i. The current rating of resistor, resistance value, relay setting, etc. should
be selected carefully.
ii. Setting should be such that the protection does not operate for earth-
faults on EHV side.
stator…
Earth faults are not likely to occur near the neutral point due to less
voltage w.r.t. earth. It is a usual practice to protect about 80 to 85% of
generator winding against earth-faults. The remaining 20 to 15%
winding from neutral side left un-protected by the differential protection.
R=V/I
where
2. Rotor Protection
A high resistance is connected across the rotor circuit. The centre point
of this is connected to earth through a sensitive relay. The relay detects
the earth faults for most of the rotor circuit (Fig.) except the centre point
of rotor.
rotor…
Other methods of rotor earth fault protection include d.c. injection
method and a.c. injection method, (Fig.). A single earth fault in the rotor
circuit completes the circuit comprising voltage Source S, sensitive
relay earth fault. Thereby the earth fault is sensed by the voltage relay.
D.C. injection method is simple and has no problems of leakage
currents.
rotor…
rotor…
(b) Rotor Temperature Alarm
This protection is employed only to large sets and indicates the level of
temperature and not the actual hot spot temperature. It is not
practicable to embed thermocouples in rotor winding since the slip ring
connections would be complicated. Resistance measurement is
adopted.
The rotor voltage and current are compared by a moving coil relay. The
voltage coil of the relay is connected across the slip ring brushes. The
current coil is connected across the shunt in the field circuit.
Double actuating quantity moving coil relay is used, the restraining coil
being circuit coil and the operating coil is the voltage coil (Fig.).
Resistance increases with temperature.
rotor…
I22t = K
where
t = time
If it is a single unit supplying a local load, the loss of field causes loss of
terminal voltage and subsequently loss of synchronism depending upon
the load conditions.
rotor…
If the generator is connected in parallel with other units it can draw the
magnetizing currents from the bus-bars and continue to runs as
induction generator.
(a) phase to phase faults (b) earth faults (c) inter turn fault
Over loads, short circuits and failure of cooling system are causes of
over heating.
The differential protection scheme is generally used for such type faults
of above 5 MVA rating of transformers. For below 5 MVA rating over
current protection is used.
The open circuit in one of the three phases is open and it is dangerous
as it causes the undesirable heating of the transformer.
Protection of Transformers…
(iv) Through faults
Through faults are the external faults which occurs out side the
protected zone.
The over current relays with under voltage blocking, zero sequence
protection and negative sequence protection are used to give
protection against through faults.
Protection of Transformers…
(v) Over fluxing
The flux density in the transformer core is proportional to the ratio of the
voltage to frequency i.e., V/f.
The V/f relay called volts/hertz relay is provided to give the protection
against over fluxing operation.
Other faults
The Buchholz relay is used for oil immersed transformers to give the
protection against incipient faults .
Protection of Transformers…
The following information is necessary while selecting the protection
scheme for a power transformer.
1. Particulars of transformer
(a) kVA
3) Buchholz Relay
1) Percentage differential Protection of Transformers
Percentage differential protection is used for the protection of large
power transformers having rating of 5 MVA and above.
The following table gives the way of connecting C.T secondary's for
the various types of power transformer connection.
The restraining coils are connected across the C.T secondary winding
while the operating coils are connected between the tapping points on
the restraining coils and star point of C.T secondary’s.
The star points of both the windings of the power transformer are
grounded. The restraining coils are connected in the C.T secondary's.
As the inrush current flows only in the primary winding, the differential
protection will see this inrush current as an internal fault. The
harmonic contents in the inrush current are is different than those in
usual fault current.
As the second harmonic is more in the inrush current than in the fault
current, this feature can be utilized to distinguish between a fault and
magnetizing inrush current.
Magnetizing Inrush…
Figure shows a high speed biased differential scheme incorporating a
harmonic restraint feature.
The dc offset and harmonics are also present in the fault current,
particularly if CT saturates. The harmonic restraint relay will fail to
operate on the occurrence of an internal fault which contains
considerable harmonics due to an arc or saturation of the CT.
This relay is set above the maximum inrush current. It will operate on
heavy internal faults in less than one cycle.
3) Buchholz Relay
Buchholz relay is a gas operated relay used for the protection of oil
immersed transformers against all type of internal faults.
It uses the principle that due to the faults, oil in the tank decomposes,
generating the gases. The 70% component of such gases is hydrogen
which is light and hence rises upwards towards conservator through
the pipe.
Internal faults like, insulation fault, core heating, bad switch contact,
faulty joints etc.
When the fault occurs the decomposition of oil in the main tank starts
due to which the gases are generated. The hydrogen tries to rise up
towards conservator but in its path it gets accumulated in the upper
part of the Buchholz relay. Through passage of the gas is prevented by
the flap valve.
When gas gets accumulated in the upper part of housing , the oil level
inside the housing falls. Due to which the hallow float tilts and close
the contacts of the mercury switch attached to it. This completes the
alarm circuit to sound an alarm.
Buchholz Relay…
Due to this operator knows that there is some incipient fault in the
transformer.
The testing results give the indication, what type of fault is started
developing in the transformer. Hence transformer can be disconnected
before fault grows into a serious one.
3. Setting of the mercury switches can not be kept too sensitive otherwise
the relay can operate due to bubbles, vibration, earth quakes and
mechanical shocks etc.
Buchholz Relay…
Applications