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GE Power Management
Technical Notes

ALPS Series Compensation

Calculations with Parallel
MOV and gaps
GE Power Management No. GET-8413

Copyright © 2002 GE Power Management

If both an MOV and a gap are used in parallel for a series capacitor, the highest MOV
protective/gap flashing protective level should be used for each compensation capacitor,
where the gaps don't flash on minimum fault current.

For example, given the following given series capacitor and CVT values:
• Series capacitor impedance: 29.92 Ω
• Series capacitor rating current: 2360 A
• Protective level of MOV and gaps: 230 kV peak value
• CVT ratio: 500000 / 100

In this case, there is only one capacitor; thus, there is only one protective level PL1 to be
considered. We have

PT L-L sec. volts 100 V

PT m = ---------------------------------- × 2 = ---------------- × 2 ≈ 82 V (EQ 1)
3 3

PL 1 = MOV Protective Level 230 kV

---------------------------------------------------------- = ---------------------------------- = 46 V (EQ 2)
PT Ratio 500000 ⁄ 100

Since there is only one protective level PL1:

n
1 1
PL t = ------------ ∑ PL n = ------------ × 82 V = 0.56 pu (EQ 3)
PTm 46 V
1

Therefore, the phase and ground level detector settings are:

2 2
Z1PLEVDET = 0.15 + 1.3 PL t = 0.15 + 1.3 × ( 0.56 ) = 0.75 (EQ 4)

2 2
Z1GLEVDET = 0.15 + PL t = 0.15 + ( 0.56 ) = 0.68 (EQ 5)