Protection Application Example

380 kV OHL

3I 0 _ TP = 0.8 ⋅ 3I 0 >>
3I 0 _ TP = 0.8 ⋅ 0.58
3I 0 _ TP = 0.46 A
Therefore apply the setting of 0.46 A

3109 Single pole trip with earth flt.prot.: The distance protection is set to cover all
arc faults on the line. High resistance faults usually are due to mechanical
defects (broken conductors or obstructions in the line) so that an automatic
reclosure is not sensible. Therefore set earth fault only for three pole tripping
by application of NO. Note that the distance protection Z1 and Z1B pickup will
block the earth fault protection, refer to settings 3102 and 3174.

3170 2nd harmonic for inrush restraint: When energising the line, connected
transformers and load may cause an inrush current with zero sequence
component. This rush current can be identified by its 2nd harmonic content. In
this application inrush blocking is not required and not applied in the
individual stages, The setting is of no consequence, so leave the default
value of 15%.

3171 Max. Current, overriding inrush restraint: If very large fault currents flow, CT
errors may also cause some 2nd harmonic. Therefore the rush blocking is
disabled when current is above this threshold. As stated for parameter 3170
above the inrush restraint is not applied in this example. This setting is of no
consequence, so leave the default value of 7.50 A.

3172 Instantaneous mode after SwitchOn To Fault: The earth fault protection may
be activated with a set time delay (parameter 3173) in the case of line
energising (SOTF). In this application only the distance protection function is
used for SOTF so that this setting is of no consequence, so leave the default
value of with Pickup and direction.

3173 Trip time delay after SOTF: As stated for parameter 3172 above, this timer
defines the delay of the SOTF trip by earth fault protection. As it is not
applied the default value of 0.00 sec is left unchanged.

17.2. 3I0>>>

Figure 50: 3I0>>> stage settings, earth fault overcurrent

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