Fault Infeed From Remote End - ABB RELION 670 SERIES Applications Manual

Section 8
Impedance protection
8.5.2.3
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Figure 136: High impedance grounding network
The operation of high impedance grounded networks is different compare to solid
grounded networks where all major faults have to be cleared very fast. In high impedance
grounded networks, some system operators do not clear single phase-to-ground faults
immediately; they clear the line later when it is more convenient. In case of cross country
faults, many network operators want to selectively clear one of the two ground-faults. To
handle this type phenomena a separate function called Phase preference logic (PPLPHIZ)
is needed, which is not common to be used in transmission applications.
In this type of network, it is mostly not possible to use distance protection for detection and
clearance of ground-faults. The low magnitude of the ground-fault current might not give
start of the zero sequence measurement element or the sensitivity will be too low for
acceptance. For this reason a separate high sensitive ground-fault protection is necessary
to carry out the fault clearance for single phase-to-ground fault.

Fault infeed from remote end

All transmission and most all sub transmission networks are operated meshed. Typical for
this type of network is that we will have fault infeed from remote end when fault occurs
on the protected line. The fault infeed will enlarge the fault impedance seen by the distance
protection. This effect is very important to keep in mind when both planning the protection
system and making the settings.
With reference to figure 137, we can draw the equation for the bus voltage Va at left side
as:
= × × + +
V I p Z ( I
A A L A
EQUATION1273 V1 EN
If we divide Va by IA we get Z present to the IED at A side
×
I ) R
B f
1MRK 506 369-UUS -
(Equation 193)
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