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Case Study on Importance of Date and

Time Settings in Numerical Relays
Published on July 30, 2016

AHMED MOHAISN 1 article Follow

Substation Protection Engineer

A great example of how improper date and time settings in numerical relays

would make a 10 min light work an 8 hours exhausting process. 

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As Date & Time Settings do not affect the functioning of Protection of Relay, we usually
attach very less importance to this vital feature, but below Case Study has something
different and very important to tell to all of us.

SLD of a typical industrial system is in Photo.

On a fault on 11 kV TR Feeder as shown, cascade tripping tripped 5 breakers, up to 66 kV!

Well, tripping of these many breakers is obviously some Relay Setting / Relay Co-ordination
problem, but following are further findings on Fault Analysis.

We were called for trouble-shooting the above. The first thing we did was to take Fault
Records of all 5 Relays along with existing settings.

Out of 5 Relays, 3 Relays had proper date & time records of faults whereas the records of 2
Relays were abrupt.

At the time of checking, both the Relays were showing proper date & time but had no fault
records matching the other 3 Relays, instead they were showing some dates 6 months to 6
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On inquiring in detail, we came to know that in both the Relays, Date & Time settings were
modified by a Plant Technician post the occurrence of fault!

After lengthy discussions with many personnel involved and sifting Fault Records minutely,
eventually we could zero-in on which Records to interpret and how to consult based on that,
a seemingly 10 minutes exercise lengthened to about 8 hours!

Problems due to non/improper setting of Date & Time:

Erroneous Records of all Faults & Events
Erroneous Analysis may lead to re-occurrence of same events
Wastage of productive time

Solution to above:
Synchronisation of Relay Clock with DCS / GPS / SCADA – this helps especially in case
Auxiliary Supply is out of service for longer duration
Checking of Relay Parameters at regular intervals

We can be of help in this regards also

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bdm@systemprotection.in
http://systemprotection.in/

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