Technical Report: ON 33KV/11KV Receiving Station
Technical Report: ON 33KV/11KV Receiving Station
ON
33KV/11KV
RECEIVING STATION
Presented by
. Fahad Irshad Bulbul
Under guidance of
Mohsib Sir (J.E)
CERTIFICATE
A substation is type of grid where electrical supply from different power sources
an grouped and amended as per requirement to be transmitted. A substation is a
part of an electrical generation, transmission and distribution system. Substations
transform voltage from high to low, or the reverse, or perform any of several
other important functions. Between the generating station and consumer, electric
power may flow through several substations at different voltage levels. A
substation may include transformers to
change voltage levels between high transmission voltages
and lower distribution voltages, or at the interconnection of two different
transmission voltages. The
word substation comes from the days before the distribution system became a
grid . As central generation stations became larger, smaller generating plants
were converted to distribution stations, receiving their energy supply from a
larger plant instead of using their own generators.
INTRODUCTION
An electrical Network comprise of the following systems;
Generating Stations
• transmission Systems
• Receiving Stations
• Distribution System
• Load Points
In all these systems. the power flow of electrical energy takes place
through Electrical Substation. An Electrical Substation is an
Assemblage of electrical components including bus bars. switchgear,
power transformers. auxiliaries, etc. Basically an electrical substation
consists of a number of incoming circuits and outgoing circuits
connected to common bus bar system. Bus bars are conducting bars to
which a number of incoming or outgoing circuits are connected. Each
circuit has certain electrical components such as circuit-breakers.
isolators. Earthing switches. current transformers. voltage transformers
etc. These components are connected in a definite sequence such that a
circuit can be switched off or on during normal operation by
manual or remote command and also automatically during abnormal
conditions such as short-circuit. A substation receives electrical power
from generating station via incoming transmission lines and delivers
Electrical power via the outgoing transmission lines.
FUNCTIONS OF A SUBSTATION
Interconnection: Interconnecting different circuits of varying voltages
or different lines at the same voltage.
Instrument Transformers
Current Transformer
Potential Transformer
Conductors
Insulators
Isolators
Busbars
Lightning Arrestors
Circuit Breakers
Relays
Capacitor Banks
Batteries
Wave Trapper
Switchyard
Metering and Indication Instruments
Equipment for Carrier Current
Prevention from Surge Voltage
The Outgoing Feeders
Instrument Transformers:
The instrument transformer is a static device utilized for reduction
of higher currents and voltages for safe and practical usage which
are measurable with traditional instruments such as digital multi-
meter etc. The value range is from 1A to 5A and voltages such as
110V etc. The transformers are also used for actuation of AC
protective relay through supporting voltage and current.
Instrument transformers are shown in the figure below and its two
types are also discussed underneath.
Current Transformer:
A current transformer is a gadget utilized for the
transformation of higher value currents into lower
values. It is utilized in an analogous manner to that of
AC instruments, control apparatus, and meters. These
are having lower current ratings and are used for
maintenance and installation of current relays for
protection purpose in substations.
Current transformers are used extensively for measuring
current and monitoring the operation of the power grid.
Along with voltage leads, revenue-grade CTs drive the
electrical utility's watthour meter on virtually every building
with three-phase service, and every residence with greater
than 200 amp service.
Conductors:
Conductors are the materials which permit flow of electrons
through it. The best conductors are copper and aluminum etc.
The conductors are utilized for transmission of energy from place
to place over substations. The most commonly used conductors for
over head lines are copper, aluminium, A.C.S.R etc.
Insulators:
The insulators are the materials which do not permit flow of
electrons through it. Insulators are resisting electric property.
There are numerous types of insulators such as shackle, strain
type, suspension type, and stray type etc. Insulators are used in
substations for avoiding contact with humans or short circuit.
TYPES OF INSULATORS:-
The successful operation of overhead line depends to
considerable extent upon proper selection of insulators.
There are several types of insulators but most commonly
used are pin type, suspension type, strain insulator and
shackle insulator.
• Strain insulators:-
When there is a dead end of the line or there is corner or
sharp curve the line is subjected to greater tension. In
order to relieve the line of excessive tension, strain
insulators are used. For low voltage, shackle insulators
are used as strain insulators .However, for high voltage
transmission lines, strain insulators consists of an
assembly of suspension insulators. The discs of strain
insulators are used in the vertical planes. When the
tension in line is exceedingly high as at long river spans,
two or more strings are used in parallel.
Isolators:
The isolators in substations are mechanical switches which are
deployed for isolation of circuits when there is an interruption of
current. These are also known with the name of disconnected
switches operation under no-load conditions and are not fortified
with arc-quenching devices. These switches have no specific
current breaking value neither these have current making value.
These are mechanically operated switches.
Busbars:
The busbar is among the most important elements of the substation and is a conductor
which carries current to a point having numerous connections with it. The busbar is a
kind of electrical junction which has outgoing and incoming current paths. Whenever a
fault occurs in the busbar, entire components connected to that specific section should
be tripped for giving thorough isolation in a small time, for instance, 60ms for avoiding
danger rising due to conductor’s heat. These are of different types such as ring bus,
double bus, and single bus etc. A simple bus bar is shown in the figure below which is
considered as one of the most vital electrical substation components.
Busbar in Substation
The Lightning Arresters:
The lightning arresters can be considered as the first ever components of a substation.
These are having a function of protecting equipment of substation from high voltages
and are also limiting the amplitude and duration of the current’s flow. These are
connected amid earth and line i.e. connected in line with equipment in the substation.
These are meant for diversion of current to earth if any current surge appears hence by
protecting insulation as well as conductor from damages. These are of various types
and are distinguished based on duties.
Lightning Arrester
Circuit Breakers:
The circuit breakers are such type of switches utilized for closing or opening circuits at
the time when a fault occurs within the system. The circuit breaker has 2 mobile
contacts which are in OFF condition in normal situations. At the time when any fault
occurs in the system, a relay is sending the tripped command to the circuit breaker
which moves the contacts apart, hence avoiding any damage to the circuitry.
Circuit Breaker in Substation
Relays:
Relays are a dedicated component of electrical substation equipment for the
protection of system against abnormal situations e.g. faults. Relays are basically
sensing gadgets which are devoted for sensing faults and are determining its location
as well as sending interruption message of tripped command to the specific point of the
circuit. A circuit breaker is falling apart its contacts after getting the command from
relays. These are protecting equipment from other damages as well such as fire, the
risk to human life, and removal of fault from a particular section of the substation.
Following is the substation component diagram is known as a relay.
Relays
Capacitor Banks:
The capacitor bank is defined as a set of numerous identical capacitors which are
connected either in parallel or series inside an enclosure and are utilized for the
correction of power factor as well as protection of circuitry of the substation. These are
acting like the source of reactive power and are thus reducing phase difference amid
current and voltage. These are increasing the capacity of ripple current of supply and
avoid unwanted selves in the substation system. The use of capacitor banks is an
economical technique for power factor maintenance and for correction of problems
related to power lag.
Substation Batteries
Wave Trapper:
The wave trapper is one of the substation components which is placed on the
incoming lines for trapping of high-frequency waves. The high-frequency waves which
are coming from nearby substations or other localities are disturbing the current and
voltages, hence its trapping is of great importance. The wave trapper is basically
tripping high-frequency waves and is then diverting the waves into telecom panel.
SwitchYard
Metering and Indication Instruments:
There are numerous instruments for metering and indication in each substation such as
watt-meters, voltmeters, ammeters, power factor meters, kWh meters, volt-ampere
meters, and KVARH meters etc. These instruments are installed at different places
within substation for controlling and maintaining values of current and voltages. For
instance, 33/11KV substation equipment will comprise digital multi-meters for various
readings of currents and voltages.
The transformer may be defined as static piece of electrical apparatus which converts
electrical power from one circuit to the other circuits at the same frequency. This
transformation of energy is done due to faraday’s laws of electromagnetic induction
through two windings, primary secondary.
Construction:-
It consists of followings parts:
• Conservator: It is a sort of a drum, mounted on a top of the transformer. It is
connected through a pipe to the transformer tank containing oil. This oil expands
and contracts depending upon heat produced & so oil level in the conservator rises
&falls.
2. Breather:
The breather is a box containing calcium chloride or silica gel to absorb moisture of air
entering the conservator.
3. Temperature gauge:
It is also a protecting device fitted to transformer to indicate the temperature of
transformer oil.
4. Explosion vent:
It is also a safety device of a transformer which protects the transformer tank from the
gases induced by any type of short circuit in the transformer.
5. Pipes:
These are fitted for cooling the transformer oil. The hot oil circulates through these
pipes where it becomes cool due to the air touching.
6. Buchholz Relay:
A Buchholz relay is a safety device sensing the accumulation of gas in large oilfilled
transformers, which will alarm on slow accumulation of gas or shut down the
transformer if gas is produced rapidly in the transformer oil. This relay is an actuated
relay which is meant for the protection of oil immersed transformer from insulation
failure, coil heating or any type of internal fault which may cause the heating of coil
beyond the specified temperature. This is situated in the pipe connected between
transformer &conservator.
8. Fans:
These are meant for extra cooling. When temperature reaches 70°C then they
automatically gets on.
used for its cooling. This type of cooling is satisfactory for low voltage small
transformers.
exchanger.
PROTECTION
Power system protection is a branch of electrical power engineering that deals with the
protection of electrical power systems from faults through the isolation of faulted parts
from the rest of the electrical network. The objective of a protection scheme is to keep
the power system stable by isolating only the components that are under fault, whilst
leaving as much of the network as possible still in operation. Thus, protection schemes
must apply a very pragmatic and pessimistic approach to clearing system faults. For this
reason, the technology and philosophies utilized in protection schemes can often be old
and wellestablished because they must be very reliable.
• Current and voltage transformers to step down the high voltages and currents of the
electrical power system to convenient levels for the relays to deal with;
• Circuit breakers to open/close the system based on relay and auto recloser
commands;
For parts of a distribution system, fuses are capable of both sensing and disconnecting
faults.
Failures may occur in each part, such as insulation failure, fallen or broken transmission
lines, incorrect operation of circuit breakers, short circuits and open circuits. Protection
devices are installed with the aims of protection of assets, and ensure continued supply
of energy. The three classes of protective devices are:
Protective devices:
• Monitoring equipment which collects data on the system for post event analysis
While the operating quality of these devices, and especially of the protective relays, is
always critical, different strategies are considered for protecting the different parts of
the system. Very important equipment may have completely redundant and
independent protective systems, while a minor branch distribution line may have very
simple low-cost protection.
Types of protection:
Generator sets – In a power plant, the protective relays are intended to prevent damage
to alternators or of the transformers in case of abnormal conditions of operation, due to
internal failures, as well as insulating failures or regulation malfunctions. Such failures
are unusual, so the protective relays have to operate very rarely. If a protective relay
fails to detect a fault, the damage to the alternator or to the transformer may have
important financial consequences for the repair or replacement of equipment and the
value of the energy that otherwise would have been sold.
• Earth fault – Earth fault protection again requires current transformers and senses
an imbalance in a three-phase circuit. Normally a three-phase circuit is in balance, so
if a single (or multiple) phases are connected to earth an imbalance in current is
detected. If this imbalance exceeds a pre-determined value a circuit breaker should
operate.
• Distance – Distance protection detects both voltage and current. A fault on a circuit
will generally create a sag in the voltage level. If this voltage falls below a pre-
determined level and the current is above a certain level the circuit breaker should
operate. This is useful on long lines where if a fault was experienced at the end of
the line the impedance of the line itself may inhibit the rise in current. Since a
voltage sag is required to trigger the protection the current level can actually be set
below the normal load on the line.
• Back-up – At all times the objective of protection is to remove only the affected
portion of plant and nothing else. Sometimes this does not occur for various reasons
which can include:
• Mechanical failure of a circuit breaker to operate
• Relay failures
• Low-voltage networks – The low voltage network generally relies upon fuses or low-
1 RELAY:
DIFFERENTIAL RELAY:
A differential relay is one that operates when vector difference of the two
or more electrical quantities exceeds a predetermined value. If this differential
quantity is equal or greater than the pickup value, the relay will operate and
open the c ircuit breaker to isolate the faulty section.
AUXILIARY RELAY :
An auxiliary relay is used to indicate the fault by glowing bulb alert the employee.
DIGITAL Relay:
In utility and industrial electric power transmission and distribution systems, a
digital protective relay is a computer-based system with software-based protection
algorithms for the detection of electrical faults.[1] Such relays are also termed as
microprocessor type protective relays. They are functional replacements for
electro-mechanical protective relays and may include many protection functions in
one unit, as well as providing metering, communication, and self-test functions.
The digital protective relay is a protective relay that uses a microprocessor to
analyze power system voltages, currents or other process quantities for the
purpose of detection of faults in an electric power system or industrial process
system. A digital protective relay may also be called a "numeric protective relay".
Types:
• Overload protection relay:-
Electric motors need overcurrent protection to prevent damage from over-
loading the motor, or to protect against short circuits in connecting cables or
internal faults in the motor windings. One type of electric motor overload
protection relay is operated by a heating element in series with the electric
motor. The heat generated by the motor current heats a bimetallic strip or
melts solder, releasing a spring to operate contacts. Where the overload relay is
exposed to the same environment as the motor, a useful though crude
compensation for motor ambient temperature is provided.
• Distance relay:-
The most common form of protection on high voltage transmission systems is
distance relay protection. Power lines have set impedance per kilometer and
using this value and comparing voltage and current the distance to a fault can
be determined. The ANSI standard device number for a distance relay is 21.
• Buchholz relay:-
A Buchholz relay is a safety device sensing the accumulation of gas in large
oilfilled transformers, which will alarm on slow accumulation of gas or shut
down the transformer if gas is produced rapidly in the transformer oil.
Specifications
33KV/11KV substation
Two 6.3KV transformers
Impedance voltage 7.31%
No load loss of transformer is 6KW
Load loss is 39KW
On load gear rated current as 75A
VCB as primary circuit breaker
11KV incomer with CT ratio as 750/5A
PTR as 11KV/110V
Insulation level as 38KV/95KVP
With normal current as 1250A
Two outgoing feeders
One with CT ratio as 300/5A other as 360/5A
One station auxiliary with CTR as 150/5A
Using Siemen Company relay for each feeder
33KV Transf panel
Control and relay panel having both digital as well as
analog relays
Digital relay of Ashida company
Has 3 O/C +EF with CT as 1/5A
Station Having average load of 250A
Having energy meters of L&T company
Feeder VCB’s spring charge as well as manual charge
Protection System
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