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Test and Sectionalizers: A
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rapidly, as the applicability of a single unit which
Measurement incorporates circuit breaker, sensors and control has
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recloser to include sectionalizer functionality. To
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such, reclosers are considered “fault- breaking”
Test and
Measurement devices. Multiple reclosers could be deployed along a
single feeder to provide a segmentation of the line, so
that a fault at the far end of the feeder would not
result in a complete feeder outage. Provided that each
downstream recloser was faster than the upstream
unit, the unit closest to the fault would trip, and they
would act in harmony.

This is philosophically the concept of protection

grading. The total number of reclosers you could
deploy, relies on how fast your first recloser has to be
to beat the substation circuit breaker, and then the
difference (grading margin) between each subsequent
recloser along the line. When you ran out of margin,
you couldn’t put in more traditional reclosers. But

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there is a device that cares less about grading, giving

you more segmentation when you don’t have
sufficient grading – these are sectionalizers.

The key difference between a sectionalizer and a

recloser, is that the former does not have the
capability to break fault current. But this is not
necessary, because the objective is to operate in
harmony with protection devices such as reclosers
and other circuit breakers. Sectionalizers watch for
fault current, then wait for upstream protection
devices to operate, before opening in the time there is
no current on the line – i.e. the dead time.

If a sectionalizer sees a fault, then a clearance, then it

knows that there must be a downstream fault.
Therefore, when it opens, it provides additional
segmentation to the line.

Now that intelligent sectionalizers and reclosers are

almost identical from a cost basis, using a recloser as
a sectionalizer provides you with multiple benefits.
These include product standardization, reduction in
total risk, reduction in training requirements, and
more versatility in application. NOJA Power OSM
Reclosers can even be configured to act as a recloser
in one power flow direction and as a sectionalizer in
the other – invaluable in a modern network with
varied power flows and grading margins.

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While the concept of calculating sectionalizer settings

is worthy of its own application note, philosophically
there are extensive equivalences between recloser
deployment as a sectionalizer.

Therefore, a 3 Shot to
Lockout Sequence Setting
in an OSM Recloser as a
Recloser would look like
this:

An equivalent 3 Counts to
Open Sectionalize sequence
in the same recloser would
look like the following:

Both settings would require

“AR On” to be enabled,
otherwise they both would
act as a single shot operation.
Reclosers would trip straight to lockout, and
sectionalizers would operate on the first fault passage
and isolation.

The beauty of the “shared settings” architecture is

that engineers are equipped with the ability to switch
operating modes of the switchgear remotely,
providing versatility depending on power flow. For
example, a recloser which has Group 1 Settings for
Recloser Mode and Group 2 Settings for Sectionaliser
mode, could change from group 1 to 2 and maintain
the same sequence length settings and behaviour.

“The RC10 and RC15 control can be both configured

as a recloser or sectionaliser control,” says NOJA

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Power Group Managing Director Neil O’Sullivan.

“Connected to the OSM tank which is a fault make /
fault break rated circuit breaker our customers have
complete flexibility as to how they configure the
device in their network either as a recloser or
sectionaliser.”

If this
overview has
piqued your
interest or you
have a unique
application to
share, NOJA
POWER
would love to
hear from you.

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