Lecture 33 – Motor Protection I

Switchgear and Protection

(UEE603)
 Contents
• Course objective:
– To introduce the concept of protection system attributes,
– types of fuses,
– circuit breakers,
– earthing, relays, and
– various protection schemes.
• Protection Schemes:
– Overcurrent and Overvoltage protection of transmission lines,
– differential protection,
– transformer protection,
– Bus bar protection,
– distance protection of transmission line,
– carrier aided protection of transmission lines,
– generator protection,
– induction motor protection.
 Summary – Transformer Protection I
• Need and Types of Transformer protection
• Transformer faults
– External faults
– Internal faults
• Types of internal faults
– Incipient faults
– Active faults
• Protection against internal and external incipient faults
• Magnetizing inrush current
• Differential Protection of Transformers
• Protection against active faults
• Connections for differential protection
• Factors affecting transformer protection
• Biased differential or percentage differential protection
• Harmonic restraint protection
• Earth fault current calculations
• Over-voltage and over-excitation
• IEEE devices used for transformer protection
 Contents – Motor Protection I
• Motor Protection
• Motor problems
– Due to internal hazards
– Due to external hazards
• Stator protection
– Phase fault
– Ground fault
Motor Protection
Voltage and Frequency operating range
Unbalance current protection
 GATE Question

• Answer: B
 Summary – Motor Protection I
• Motor Protection
• Motor problems
– Due to internal hazards
– Due to external hazards
• Stator protection
– Phase fault
– Ground fault