Load Encroachment - ABB REG670 Applications Manual

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Generator protection REG670 2.2 IEC and Injection equipment REX060, REX061, REX062
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Figure 96: Influence of fault current infeed from remote line end
The effect of fault current infeed from remote line end is one of the most driving
factors to justify complementary protection to distance protection.
When the line is heavily loaded, the distance protection at the exporting end will have
a tendency to overreach. To handle this phenomenon, the IED has an adaptive built-
in algorithm, which compensates the overreach tendency of zone 1 at the exporting
end and reduces the underreach at the importing end. No settings are required for this
function.

Load encroachment

In some cases the load impedance might enter the zone characteristic without any fault
on the protected line. The phenomenon is called load encroachment and it might occur
when an external fault is cleared and high emergency load is transferred on the
protected line. The effect of load encroachment is illustrated in the left part of
figure 97. A load impedance within the characteristic would cause an unwanted trip.
The traditional way of avoiding this situation is to set the distance zone resistive reach
with a security margin to the minimum load impedance. The drawback with this
approach is that the sensitivity of the protection to detect resistive faults is reduced.
The IED has a built-in function which shapes the characteristic according to the right
part of figure 97. The load encroachment algorithm will increase the possibility to
detect high fault resistances, especially for phase-to-earth faults at the remote line end.
For example, for a given setting of the load angle ArgLd the resistive blinder for the
zone measurement can be expanded according to the right part of the figure 97, given
higher fault resistance coverage without risk for unwanted operation due to load
encroachment. This is valid in both directions.
The use of the load encroachment feature is essential for long heavily loaded lines,
where there might be a conflict between the necessary emergency load transfer and
necessary sensitivity of the distance protection. The function can also preferably be
used on heavy loaded medium long lines. For short lines, the major concern is to get
sufficient fault resistance coverage. Load encroachment is not a major problem.
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