Chapter 7) 7SR23 DAD Applications Guide
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Section 5: Supervision Functions
5.1
CT Supervision (CT50)
If the CT secondary wiring becomes open-circuit a current unbalance will be created in the Relay circuit. This may
exceed the operating level causing the differential protection to operate and isolate the primary plant. Even for low
levels of unbalance current it is important that the condition is detected as subsequent increase of primary current
levels may be sufficient to raise the unbalanced current above the protection operate level.
A sensitive differential element is provided to supervise the CT wiring i.e. detect open circuited CT secondary
wiring. Generally a current setting of 2 - 10% of the full load rating of the busbar is acceptable.
Once a CT Supervision condition has been detected, the relay can be programmed to issue an alarm via one of
the output contacts. Where a mal-operation is preferred to missing a real fault, this alarm is used to simply alert
the system operator to the condition. It should then be rectified as soon as possible.
Where protection mal-operation is unacceptable, this alarm can also be used to disable the differential protection
until the CT is repaired. Traditionally this has been done by short-circuiting the secondary wiring of the affected
phase(s) of the CTs. There is no way of identifying which individual CT is faulted. This method has been used
where an open-circuited CT may cause damage to plant. Care must be taken, however, to ensure that the rating
of the relay output contacts is sufficient to make and carry the high current transients involved. If not, the alarm
output must be used to operate a dedicated CT shorting relay with higher-rated contacts.
The 7SR23 can be configured to inhibit the relay’s Differential protection elements when the CT Supervision
element operates.
The CT Supervision element will pick-up for an internal fault condition, a time delay is added so that it does not
operate before the protection has correctly cleared the fault. Typically a time delay of 2 to 10 seconds is applied.
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