Four Step Phase Overcurrent Protection Oc4Ptoc; Identification; Application - ABB RELION 670 Series Applications Manual

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8.2

Four step phase overcurrent protection OC4PTOC

8.2.1

Identification

Function description
Four step phase overcurrent
protection 3-phase output
8.2.2

Application

The Four step phase overcurrent protection 3-phase output OC4PTOC is used in several
applications in the power system. Some applications are:
• Short circuit protection of feeders in distribution and subtransmission systems. Normally
these feeders have radial structure.
• Back-up short circuit protection of transmission lines.
• Back-up short circuit protection of power transformers.
• Short circuit protection of different kinds of equipment connected to the power system
such as; shunt capacitor banks, shunt reactors, motors and others.
• Back-up short circuit protection of power generators.
In many applications several steps with different current pick up levels and time delays are
needed. OC4PTOC can have up to four different, individual settable, steps.The flexibility of
each step of OC4PTOC is great. The following options are possible:
Non-directional / Directional function: In most applications the non-directional functionality is
used. This is mostly the case when no fault current can be fed from the protected object itself.
In order to achieve both selectivity and fast fault clearance, the directional function can be
necessary.
Choice of delay time characteristics: There are several types of delay time characteristics
available such as definite time delay and different types of inverse time delay characteristics.
The selectivity between different overcurrent protections is normally enabled by co-ordination
between the function time delays of the different protections. To enable optimal co-ordination
between all overcurrent protections, they should have the same time delay characteristic.
Therefore a wide range of standardized inverse time characteristics are available: IEC and
ANSI. It is also possible to tailor make the inverse time characteristic.
Normally it is required that the phase overcurrent protection shall reset as fast as possible
when the current level gets lower than the operation level. In some cases some sort of delayed
reset is required. Therefore different kinds of reset characteristics can be used.
For some protection applications there can be a need to change the current pick-up level for
some time. A typical case is when the protection will measure the current to a large motor. At
the start up sequence of a motor the start current can be significantly larger than the rated
current of the motor. Therefore there is a possibility to give a setting of a multiplication factor
Application manual
IEC 61850
identification
OC4PTOC
If VT inputs are not available or not connected, setting parameter
= step 1, 2, 3 or 4) shall be left to default value
IEC 60617 ANSI/IEEE C37.2
identification device number
51_67
TOC-REVA V2 EN-US
Non-directional .
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