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Thursday, November 17, 2016

Tertiary winding in Power Transformer

The Tertiary winding with DELTA connection is normally used in Yy connection

power & Auto transformers for following purpose.

1. The Tertiary winding used as a path for the Zero sequence current during
secondary loaded with unbalanced load. Normally the primary neutral point
would not be connected with system ground. Tertiary winding one DELTA point
is connected with system ground which is prevent the shifting of secondary
neutral point and the voltages become unsymmetrical during unbalanced load
condition. Other wise the zero sequence current will flow through the secondary
neutral connected with Transformer Tank and tank will get heat up.

2. When an external Earth Fault occurs, the resulting zero sequence currents
flow through the OPEN DELTA winding to ground.This prevents the zero
sequence currents from flowing through the Transformer. This also prevents
abnormal DIFFERENTIAL RELAY operation of the Transformer for external
faults.

3. Some times a external resistor is used in the path of Delta to ground

connection to limit the Current circulation.

4. Some times this winding is used as a station supply and surge arrester are used
to prevent the surges from the load side.

Protection Arrangement

The CT in the closed conductor will detect asymmetrical-faults such as turn-to-

turn, or winding-to-winding and connected with instantaneous over current 51
and other and one core is connected with winding Temperature meter.

The CT in the Grounding conductor will detect ground-faults in the delta

winding.
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