Smart Distribution Line

Through Automatic Circuit

Recloser
Engr. Janperson A. Quitua
Technical Support Manager
Power Equipment and Supplies, Inc.
jp.quitua@pesin.com.ph
www.pesin.com.ph

IIEE – Norther Laguna Chapter

July 15, 2021
Company Overview
ABOUT US OUR
CORPORATE VISION
It’s a 50 year company that We will be the market
was founded in 1970 by late leader for medium &
high voltage power &
Engr. Eliseo P. Purificacion, energy products in
PME, PEE. Located at the Philippines by
2025.
Novaliches, Quezon City
Philippines . At present, the
company is managed by
Engr. Justo M. Conde, II, CE.

OUR
CORPORATE
MISSION
We offer solutions to our
customers using
innovative, environmentally
friendly, high quality
products combined with
unmatched service in the
Philippines

OUR
OBJECTIVE
Provide innovative
products combined with
unmatched service to all
our customers nationwide.
 Incorporated with

Noja Power Switchgear Pty., Ltd.

• Located in Brisbane, Australia
The Electricity
Network
What are the CHALLENGES in our Power
System

• Reliability
• Increasing loads
• Tie up of renewables
• Rise of load demand
• Safety
 Switchgears

• Control systems: These monitor, control and protect the power-

conducting components; such as control panels, current transformers,
potential transformers, associated circuitry, and so on.
• Power-conducting components: These conduct or interrupt
the power flow; such as switches, circuit breakers, fuses, isolators,
relays, lightning arrestors, RECLOSER and so on.
 RECLOSER

• A recloser is an automatic, high-voltage electric switch. Like a circuit

breaker on household electric lines, it shuts off electric power when trouble
occurs, such as a short circuit.
• Reclosers are Commonly used for overhead lines particularly up on the Pole
 What are the difference in using Recloser
versus of that Conventional Circuit Breakers?
Automatic Circuit Recloser Vacuum Circuit Breakers

Continuous Current Typically 630A and 800A Typically 1200, 2000, 3000
Capacity Some 400A and 1200A
Mechanical Typically 10000 to 30000 Typically 100, but some can go
Advantage up to 10000
Location of Use Outdoor, even in Overhead Lines Mostly are Indoors

Mounting Mostly Pole-Mounted, some are Pad- Typically Pad-Mounted

Mount
IEEE/ANSI/IEC Compliant Compliant
Standard
 How does a RECLOSER establish “Smart
Distribution Line”

• Reclosers are designed for

use with an automatic-
reclosing function,
typically allowing up to
three reclose operations in
an operating sequence
before the controller puts
the recloser in lockout.
 Fault Detection

Possible Cause

Overcurrent
Earth Fault
Broken Conductor/s
and so on…
 Actuation of Vacuum Interrupter

• The device will act as a breaker of Current-Carrying Conductors.

• Interrupting TIME is critical since this device handles a huge amount of
current with a typicall voltage range from 11KV to 38KV L-L
 Reclosing

• The term AUTOMATIC CIRCUIT RECLOSER will now serve, since after the
configured time of clearing of Fault, the device will CLOSE the circuit again
without any human intervention.
• Reclosers are mostly located in remote area where maintenance teams of
Utilities will take time to arrive
Automation Features
Our Functions

Automatic Backfeed Restoration

Voltage Reclose Control

Loss of Supply Reclose Mode

UV3 AutoClose

Auto Change Over

Auto Change Over

Normal Operation, Source 1 is the Primary/Main

Supply
Maturity of Fault

Sour

When fault exist and ACR 1 will sense, and trip the
contacts as to avoid Surge in the Load
Break before Make

• ACR 2 will wait

Implementation of Change Over
Who are the people Involve
• Engineers
• Primary Systems Engineers
• Secondary Systems Engineers
• Protection Engineers
• Planning Engineers
• Equipment Engineers
• Standards Engineers
• Comms Engineers
• Automation Engineers
• “Innovation” Engineers
• Operational
• Lineman
• Testing Technician/Electrician
• Operators
• Work Practice Engineers
• Commercial People
• Contract Managers
• Category Managers
• Purchasing/Procurement
Protection Engineers
• Past
• Record the encountered problems that exist in the previous years
• Collating the data sheet of all existing protective device particularly the specs and protection settings
• Present
• Monitors and record the data presented by the device in a certain interval
• Future
• Oversees the maintenance of the protective equipment
• Capable of complex calculation of the system
• Plans adjustment and addition to protective system
• Protection Coordination
Smart Grid Automation
 Question

• Can we connect it to a SCADA?

• Yes, our Recloser support Multiple Protocols such as
• DNP3
• IEC 60870-5-101/104
• IEC 61850
• Peer to Peer
• File Tranfer Protocol
 Question

• How many seconds reclosed contact?

• The minimum reclose time for our Noja Recloser is 0.1 second
 Question
• Maintenance and repair
• Maintenance Program and Testing Procedures for Automatic Recloser
• For the Maintenance and Repair, Noja Recloser advertises its almost Maintenance
Free Equipment
• No SF6 Gas Pressure to maintain
• No Sealants to inspect
• HiPot
• Insulation Resistance
• Contact Resistance
 Question

• Types and function of MV recloser

• Recloser
• RMU
• Sectionalizer
• Switch
• Generator Connection
• Substation Circuit Breaker
 Question

• Equipment type of installation pole mounted or pad ang thus it needs low voltage power
supply such as 230 volts single phase
• Our recloser supports 110V and 220V Low Voltage Supply
 Question

• What are the new specifications and innovation of your latest automatic recloser?
• RC20 with integrated real-time viewing of Data
• Syncrophasor
 Question

• Sir, what can you advice for those newly licensed electrical engineer about their career path
and field to be taken? Thank you.