Ground Fault Protection 64, 67N(S), 50N(S), 51N(S); Ground Fault Detection For Cos-Φ / Sin-Φ Measurement (Standard Procedure) - Siemens SIPROTEC 7SJ62 Manual

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Ground Fault Protection 64, 67N(s), 50N(s), 51N(s)

Depending on the variant, the fourth current input of the multi-functional protection relays 7SJ62/64 is equipped
either with a sensitive input transformer or a standard transformer for 1/5 A.
In the first case, the protective function is designed for ground fault detection in isolated or compensated
systems due to its high sensitivity. It is not really suited for ground fault detection with large ground currents
since the linear range is transcended at about 1.5 A at the sensitive ground fault detection relay terminals.
If the relay is equipped with a standard transformer for 1/5 A currents, large currents can also be detected cor-
rectly.
This function can operate in two modes. The standard procedure, the „cos-ϕ– / sin-ϕ measurement", evaluates
the part of the ground current perpendicular to the settable directional characteristic.
The second procedure, the „U0/I0-ϕ measurement", calculates the angle between ground current and displace-
ment voltage. For this procedure, two different directional characteristics can be set.
Applications
• Sensitive ground fault detection may be used in isolated or compensated systems to detect ground faults,
to determine phases affected by ground faults, and to specify the direction of ground faults.
• In solidly or low-resistance grounded systems, sensitive ground fault detection is used to detect high imped-
ance ground faults.
• This function can also be used as supplementary ground fault protection.
2.12.1 Ground Fault Detection for cos-ϕ / sin-ϕ Measurement (Standard Method)
Voltage Element
The voltage element relies on a pickup initiated by the displacement voltage V
phase is determined. The displacement voltage V
voltage 3 · V can be calculated by the device based on the three phase–to–ground voltages. In the latter case,
0
the three voltage inputs must be connected to voltage transformers in a grounded-wye configuration (see also
address 213 VT Connect. 3ph in Subsection 2.1.3). If the device is only provided with phase-to-phase volt-
ages, it is not possible to calculate a displacement voltage from them. In this case the direction cannot be de-
termined.
If the displacement voltage is calculated, then:
3 · V = V + V
0 A B
If the displacement voltage is directly applied to the device, then V
not affected by parameter Vph / Vdelta (address 206).
The displacement voltage is used both to detect a ground fault and to determine direction. When the voltage
element picks up, a preset time delay must elapse before detection of the displacement voltage is reported to
be able to record stable measurement quantities. The time delay can be configured (T-DELAY Pickup) and
its factory setting is 1 s.
Pickup performed by the displacement voltage can be delayed (64-1 DELAY) for tripping.
It is important to note that the total tripping time then consists of the displacement voltage measurement time
(about 50 ms) plus the pickup time delay T-DELAY Pickup plus the tripping delay 64-1 DELAY.
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