ABB RED615 Technical Manual page 153

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615 series
Technical Manual
busbar and transformer LV-side faults without impairing the selectivity. Also, the
security degree of busbar protection is increased, because there is now a dedicated,
selective and fast busbar protection functionality which is based on the blockable
overcurrent protection principle. The additional time selective stages on the
transformer HV and LV-sides provide increased security degree of backup
protection for the transformer, busbar and also for the outgoing feeders.
Depending on the overcurrent stage in question, the selectivity of the scheme in
Figure 73 is based on the operating current, operating time or blockings between
successive overcurrent stages. With blocking channels, the operating time of the
protection can be drastically shortened if compared to the simple time selective
protection. In addition to the busbar protection, this blocking principle is applicable
for the protection of transformer LV terminals and short lines. The functionality
and performance of the proposed overcurrent protections can be summarized as
seen in the table.
Table 153: Proposed functionality of numerical transformer and busbar overcurrent protection.
DT = definite time, IDMT = inverse definite minimum time
O/C-stage Operating char.
HV/3I> DT/IDMT
HV/3I>> DT
HV/3I>>> DT
LV/3I> DT/IDMT
LV/3I>> DT
LV/3I>>> DT
In case the bus-tie breaker is open, the operating time of the blockable overcurrent
protection is approximately 100 ms (relaying time). When the bus-tie breaker is
closed, that is, the fault current flows to the faulted section of the busbar from two
directions, the operation time becomes as follows: first the bus-tie relay unit trips
the tie breaker in the above 100 ms, which reduces the fault current to a half. After
this the incoming feeder relay unit of the faulted bus section trips the breaker in
approximately 250 ms (relaying time), which becomes the total fault clearing time
in this case.
Protection functions
Selectivity mode Operation speed
time selective low
blockable/time high/low
selective
current selective very high
time selective low
time selective low
blockable high
Section 4
Sensitivity
very high
high
low
very high
high
high
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