Lecture 32 – Transformer Protection

II
Switchgear and Protection
UEE603
 Summary – Transformer Protection I
• Need of Transformer protection
• 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
 Contents – Transformer Protection II
• 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
Biased differential protection or Percentage slope of
differential relays
Earth fault Current
 Summary – Transformer Protection II
• 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