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ment security factor of CT and accuracy limit factor.
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If we go through the example below it would be clear to us.
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Suppose one current transformer has rating 100/1 A and ISF is 1.5
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and another current transformer has same rating with ISF 2. That
means, in first CT, the metering core would be saturated at 1.5 × 100 Measuring In
or 150 A, whereas is second CT, core will be saturated at 2 × 100 or
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200 A. That means whatever may be the primary current of both CTs,
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secondary current will not increase further after 150 and 200 A of
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Accuracy Limit Factor or ALF of Current Transformer

For protection current transformer, the ratio of accuracy limit primary

current to the rated primary current. First we will explain, what is
rated accuracy limit primary current?
Broadly, this is the maximum value of primary current, beyond which
core of the protection CT or simply protection core of of a CT starts
saturated. The value of rated accuracy limit primary current is always
many times more than the value of instrument limit primary current.
Actually CT transforms the fault current of the electrical power
system for operation of the protection relays connected to the
secondary of that CT. If the core of the CT becomes saturated at
lower value of primary current, as in the case of metering CT, the
system fault will not reflect properly to the secondary, which may
cause, the relays remain inoperative even the fault level of the
system is large enough. That is why the core of the protection CT is
made such a way that saturation level of that core must be high
enough. But still there is a limit as because, it is impossible to make
one magnetic core with infinitely high saturation level and secondly
most important reason is that although the protection care should
have high saturation level but that must be limited up to certain level
otherwise total transformation of primary current during huge fault
may badly damage the protection relays.

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So it is clear from above explanation, rated accuracy limit primary

current, should not be so less, that it will not at all help the relays to
be operated on the other hand this value must not be so high that it
can damage the relays. So, accuracy limit factor or ALF should not
have the value nearer to unit and at the same time it should not be as
high as 100. The standard values of ALF as per IS-2705 are 5, 10, 15,
20 and 30.
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This is the significance of saturation level of a CT core mainly used

for protection purposes. The sinusoidal voltage of rated frequency
applied to the secondary terminals of current transformer, with other
winding being open circuited, which when increased by 10% cause
the exiting current to increase 50%. The CT core is made of CRGO
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It has its won saturation level.

The EMF induced in the CT secondary windings is
E2 = 4.44φfT2

Where, f is the system frequency, φ is the maximum magnetic flux in

Wb. T2 is the number of turns of the secondary winding. The flux in
the core, is produced by excitation current Ie. We have a non-liner
relationship between excitation current and magnetizing flux. After
certain value of excitation current, flux will not further increase so
rapidly with increase in excitation current. This non-liner relation
curve is also called B - H curve. Again from the equation above, it is
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found that, secondary voltage of acurrent transformer is directly
proportional to flux φ. Hence one typical curve can be drawn from
this relation between secondary voltage and excitation current as
shown below.
It is clear from the curve that, linear relation between V and Ie is
maintained from point A and K. The point ′A′ is known as ′ankle point′
and point ′K′ is known as ′Knee Point′.

In differential and restricted earth fault (REF) protection scheme,

accuracy class and ALF of the CT may not ensure the reliability of the
operation. It is desired that, differential and REF relays should not be
operated when fault occurs outside the protected transformer. When
any fault occurs outside the differential protection zone, the faulty
current flows through the CTs of both sides of electrical power
transformer. The both LV and HV CTs have magnetizing
characteristics. Beyond the knee point, for slight increase in
secondary emf a large increasing in excitation current is required. So
after this knee point excitation current of both current transformers
will be extremely high, which may cause mismatch between
secondary current of LV & HV current transformers. This phenomena
may cause unexpected tripping of power transformer. So the
magnetizing characteristics of both LV & HV sides CTs, should be
same that means they have same knee point voltage Vk as well as
same excitation current Ie at Vk/2. It can be again said that, if both
knee point voltage of current transformer and magnetizing
characteristic of CTs of both sides of power transformer differ, there
must be a mismatch in high excitation currents of the CTs during
fault which ultimately causes the unbalancing between secondary
current of both groups of CTs and transformer trips.
So for choosing CT for differential protection of transformer, one
should consider current transformer PS class rather its convectional
protection class. PS stands for protection special which is defined by
knee point voltage of current transformer Vk and excitation current
Ie at Vk/2.
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Why CT Secondary Should Not Be Kept Open?
The electrical power system load current always flows through
current transformer primary; irrespective of whether the current
transformer is open circuited or connected to burden at its
secondary.

If CT secondary is open circuited, all the primary current will behave

as excitation current, which ultimately produce huge voltage. Every
current transformer has its won non-linear magnetizing curve,
because of which secondary open circuit voltage should be limited
by saturation of the core. If one can measure the rms voltage across
the secondary terminals, he or she will get the value which may not
appear to be dangerous. As the CT primary current is sinusoidal in
nature, it zero 100 times per second.(As frequency of the current is
50 Hz). The rate of change of flux at every current zero is not limited
by saturation and is high indeed. This develops extremely high peaks
or pulses of voltage. This high peaks of voltage may not be
measured by conventional voltmeter. But these high peaks of
induced voltage may breakdown the CT insulation, and may case
accident to personnel. The actual open-circuit voltage peak is
difficult to measure accurately because of its very short peaks. That
is why CT secondary should not be kept open.

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