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8.2.7.6 Internal ground-fault protection structure
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The protection is internally divided into the following parts:
1. Four residual overcurrent steps.
2. Directional supervision element for residual overcurrent steps with integrated
directional comparison step for communication based ground-fault protection
schemes (permissive or blocking).
3. Second harmonic blocking element with additional feature for sealed-in blocking
during switching of parallel transformers.
4. Switch on to fault feature with integrated Under-Time logic for detection of
breaker problems during breaker opening or closing sequence.
8.2.7.7 Four residual overcurrent steps
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Each overcurrent step uses operating quantity Iop (residual current) as the measuring
quantity. Each of the four residual overcurrent steps has the following built-in
facilities:
• Directional mode can be set to Disabled / Non-directional / Forward / Reverse . By
this parameter setting the directional mode of the step is selected.
• Residual current pickup value.
• Type of operating characteristic (inverse or definite time). By this parameter
setting it is possible to select inverse or definite time delay for the ground-fault
protection. Most of the standard IEC and ANSI inverse characteristics are
available. For the complete list of available inverse curves, please refer to section
"Inverse characteristics" .
• Type of reset characteristic ( Instantaneous / IEC Reset / ANSI Reset ). By this
parameter setting it is possible to select the reset characteristic of the step. For the
complete list of available reset curves, please refer to section
"Inverse
characteristics" .
• Time delay related settings. By these parameter settings the properties like definite
time delay, minimum operating time for inverse curves, reset time delay and
parameters to define user programmable inverse curve are defined.
• Supervision by second harmonic blocking feature ( Enabled / Disabled ). By this
parameter setting it is possible to prevent operation of the step if the second
harmonic content in the residual current exceeds the preset level.
• Multiplier for scaling of the set residual current pickup value by external binary
signal. By this parameter setting it is possible to increase residual current pickup
value when function binary input MULTPUx has logical value 1.
• The operation current value INx> , is limited to be between INx>Max and
INx>Min . The default values of the limits are the same as the setting limits for
INx>, and the limits can only be used for reducing the allowed range of INx>.
This feature is used when remote setting of the operation current value is allowed,
making it possible to ensure that the operation value used is reasonable. If INx> is
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Section 8
Current protection
Phasor measurement unit RES670 2.2 ANSI 203
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