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Power Protection

Power system protection uses components like current and voltage transformers, protective relays, circuit breakers, batteries, and fuses to isolate faulted parts of an electrical network. There are several types of protection including overload, high voltage transmission, earth fault, and back-up protection. Protective device coordination aims to minimize outages by determining the best timing of current interruption. Performance is measured by reliability, selectivity, speed, economy, and simplicity.

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Power Protection

Power system protection uses components like current and voltage transformers, protective relays, circuit breakers, batteries, and fuses to isolate faulted parts of an electrical network. There are several types of protection including overload, high voltage transmission, earth fault, and back-up protection. Protective device coordination aims to minimize outages by determining the best timing of current interruption. Performance is measured by reliability, selectivity, speed, economy, and simplicity.

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Contents

Introduction
Components
Protective Devices
Types of Protection
Coordination
Performance Measures
Introduction
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.
Components
Protection systems usually comprise five
components:
Current and voltage transformers
Protective relays
Circuit breakers
Batteries
Fuses
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Current & Voltage Transformer: Current &
Voltage Transformer to step down the high voltages
and currents of the electrical power system to
convenient levels for the relay.

Current Transformer Voltage Transformer


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Protective Relays to sense the fault and initiate a
trip, or disconnection.
Circuit Breakers to open/close the system based on
relay and auto reclose commands.

Digital Relay Circuit Breakers


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Batteries to provide power in case of power
disconnection in the system.

Fuses for parts of a distribution system, fuses are


capable of both sensing and disconnecting faults

Batteries Fuses
Protective Devices
Functionality:
Automatic operation, such as auto-re-closing or
system restart
Monitoring equipment which collects data on the
system for post event analysis.
Parts of Protective Devices
There are three parts of protective devices:
Instrument transformer
Relay
Circuit Breaker

Circuit Breaker Relay Inst Transformer


Advantages (Protective Devices)
Major advantages of protective devices are:

Safety
Economy
Accuracy
Types of Protection
There are several types of protection:
Over Load
High Voltage Transmission
Earth Fault
Back-Up
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Overload: Overload protection requires a current
transformer which simply measures the current in a
circuit.

High Voltage Transmission:


(Protection on the transmission and distribution serves two
functions)
At a basic level, protection looks to disconnect equipment
which experience an overload or a short to earth.
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Earth Fault: Earth fault protection requires current
transformers and senses an imbalance in a three-
phase circuit

Back-Up: The objective of protection is to remove


only the affected portion of plant and nothing else
Coordination
Protective device coordination is the process of
determining the "best fit" timing of current
interruption when abnormal electrical conditions
occur. The goal is to minimize an outage to the
greatest extent possible.
Performance Measures
We can measure a protection systems performance
with following:
Reliability
Selectivity
Speed
Economy
Simplicity
Questions ?
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