Current Protection; Instantaneous Phase Overcurrent Protection Phpioc; Identification; Application - ABB RELION 650 Series Applications Manual

1MRK 505 363-UEN A
Section 8
8.1

Instantaneous phase overcurrent protection PHPIOC

8.1.1

Identification

Function description
Instantaneous phase overcurrent
protection 3-phase output
8.1.2

Application

Long transmission lines often transfer great quantities of electric power from production to
consumption areas. The unbalance of the produced and consumed electric power at each end
of the transmission line is very large. This means that a fault on the line can easily endanger
the stability of a complete system.
The transient stability of a power system depends mostly on three parameters (at constant
amount of transmitted electric power):
• The type of the fault. Three-phase faults are the most dangerous, because no power can
be transmitted through the fault point during fault conditions.
• The magnitude of the fault current. A high fault current indicates that the decrease of
transmitted power is high.
• The total fault clearing time. The phase angles between the EMFs of the generators on
both sides of the transmission line increase over the permitted stability limits if the total
fault clearing time, which consists of the protection operating time and the breaker
opening time, is too long.
The fault current on long transmission lines depends mostly on the fault position and
decreases with the distance from the generation point. For this reason the protection must
operate very quickly for faults very close to the generation (and relay) point, for which very
high fault currents are characteristic.
The instantaneous phase overcurrent protection 3-phase output PHPIOC can operate in 10 ms
for faults characterized by very high currents.
8.1.3

Setting guidelines

The parameters for instantaneous phase overcurrent protection 3-phase output PHPIOC are
set via the local HMI or PCM600.
This protection function must operate only in a selective way. So check all system and
transient conditions that could cause its unwanted operation.
Application manual

Current protection

IEC 61850
identification
PHPIOC
IEC 60617 ANSI/IEEE C37.2
identification device number
50
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