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This type of network is many times operated in radial, but can also be found operating
meshed networks.
What is typical for this type of network is that the magnitude of the ground-fault
current is very low compared to the short circuit current. The voltage on the healthy
phases will get a magnitude of √3 times the phase voltage during the fault. The zero
sequence voltage (3V
0
) will have the same magnitude in different places in the network
due to low voltage drop distribution.
The magnitude of the total fault current can be calculated according to equation 113 .
( )
2
2
R
L C
0
3I I I I
= + -
EQUATION1271 V3 EN-US
(Equation 113)
Where:
3I
0
is the ground-fault current (A)
I
R
is the current through the neutral point resistor (A)
I
L
is the current through the neutral point reactor (A)
I
C
is the total capacitive ground-fault current (A)
The neutral point reactor is normally designed so that it can be tuned to a position
where the reactive current balances the capacitive current from the network that is:
1
3
L
C
w
w
=
× ×
EQUATION1272 V1 EN-US
(Equation 114)
ANSI05000216 V2 EN-US
Figure 121: High impedance grounded network
The operation of high impedance grounded networks is different compared to solid
grounded networks where all major faults have to be cleared very fast. In high
impedance grounded networks, some system operators do not clear single phase-to-
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