High-Impedance Ground Fault Unit Protection - Siemens SIPROTEC 7SJ62 Manual

2.5.2

High-impedance Ground Fault Unit Protection

Application Examples
In the high-impedance procedure, all CT's operate at the limits of the protected zone parallel on a common,
relatively high-resistive resistor R whose voltage is measured.
The CTs must be of the same design and feature at least a separate core for high-impedance protection. In
particular, they must have the same transformer ratios and approximately identical knee-point voltage.
With 7SJ62/64, the high-impedance principle is particularly well suited for detecting ground faults in grounded
networks at transformers, generators, motors and shunt reactors.
Figure 2-39 shows an application example for a grounded transformer winding or a grounded motor/generator.
The right-hand example depicts an ungrounded transformer winding or an ungrounded motor/generator where
the grounding of the system is assumed somewhere else.
Figure 2-39
Function of the High-Impedance Principle
The high-impedance principle is explained on the basis of a grounded transformer winding.
No zero sequence current will flow during normal operation, i.e. the starpoint current is I
currents are 3 I
In case of an external ground fault (left in Figure 2-40), whose fault current is supplied via the grounded star-
point, the same current flows through the transformer starpoint and the phases. The corresponding secondary
currents (all current transformers have the same transformation ratio) compensate each other; they are con-
nected in series. Across resistor R only a small voltage is generated. It originates from the inner resistance of
the transformers and the connecting cables of the transformers. Even if any current transformer experiences a
partial saturation, it will become low-ohmic for the period of saturation and creates a low-ohmic shunt to the
high-ohmic resistor R. Thus, the high resistance of the resistor also has a stabilizing effect (the so-called resis-
tance stabilization).
SIPROTEC, 7SJ62/64, Manual
C53000-G1140-C207-2, Release date 01.2008
Ground fault protection according to the high-impedance principle
= I + I + I = 0.
0 A B C
2.5 Single-Phase Overcurrent Protection
= 0 and the phase
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Functions
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