Introduction To Protection
Introduction To Protection
Protection Basics
BRENT L. CARPER, P.E.
Principal Engineer
Presented at the
34th Annual Hands-On Relay School
March 13-17, 2017
Agenda
▪ HRS schedule and logistics
▪ Tips for a great week
▪ Introduction to system protection
▪ Fundamental concepts
▪ Tools of protection
▪ Applications
▪ Recap
HRS Schedule
and Logistics
Monday
Morning (8:00 – 12:00) Todd Hall 116
▪ Introduction Lecture Series
Introduction to Protection
Math for Technicians
Phasors
Evening
▪ Optional SEL manufacturing plant tour
Friday
Morning (7:30 – 10:30) Todd Hall 116
▪ Review the Week
▪ Switching Incident Lessons Learned
▪ Ukrainian Power System Cyber Attack
Tips for a Great Week
Tips
▪ Parking and speeding
▪ Be on time
▪ Watch out for the afternoon snacks
▪ Enjoy the evening events
▪ Plan around happy hour
▪ Embrace variety
▪ Talk to other people from other companies
Introduction to
System Protection
Intro to Power System Protection
▪ What: What are we protecting
▪ Why: Why do we need protection
▪ When: Speed, selectivity, dependability
▪ Where: The equipment used to perform protection
▪ How: Applying protective relaying
What
Why
Why
Why
Why
Why
When
▪ Speed, selectivity, dependability
▪ Protection must:
▪ Detect an abnormal system condition
▪ React quickly
▪ Respond properly
▪ Protection must:
▪ Detect an abnormal system condition
▪ React quickly
▪ Respond properly
▪ In general:
▪ “abnormal” means a Fault
▪ “quickly” means Milliseconds
▪ “properly” is accomplished by:
▪ Engineering (relay application, coordination, redundancy and backup)
▪ Testing, Commissioning, Maintenance, Verification, Event Analysis
Where
▪ The equipment used to perform protection
Where
▪ The equipment used to perform protection
Where
▪ The equipment used to perform protection
Where
Where
▪ Relays are just one component of the “Protection System”
▪ Relays
▪ Circuit Breakers (or switches)
▪ Input Sources (CTs, PTs, Sensors, I/O)
▪ DC System (battery)
▪ Interconnection (wiring , controls, integration)
1. Engineering
▪ Applications, zones of protection, fault studies, schematic design
▪ Relay settings and logic
Super Bowl XLVII (2013) 115kV line relay trip equation error
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How
▪ The best Relay Techs (and engineers) have expertise on the entire
“Protection System”, not just the relays!
▪ Examples
▪ Fuse reacts to __________
▪ Overcurrent Relay reacts to __________
▪ Ground (Residual) Overcurrent Relay reacts to __________
▪ Distance Relay reacts to __________
▪ Directional Overcurrent Relay reacts to __________
▪ Sync Check Relay reacts to __________
Official Definitions
▪ Relay
▪ “An electric device that is designed to respond to input conditions in a
prescribed manner and, after specified conditions are met, to cause
contact operation or similar abrupt change in associated electric control
circuits. Inputs are usually electric, but may be mechanical, thermal, or
other quantities or combinations of quantities. Limit switches and similar
simple devices are not relays.” (IEEE C37.90)
▪ Protective Relay
▪ “A relay whose function is to detect defective lines or apparatus or other
power system conditions of an abnormal or dangerous nature and to
initiate appropriate control circuit action.” (IEEE 100).
▪ Fuse
▪ “An overcurrent protective device with a circuit-opening fusible part that
is heated and severed by the passage of the overcurrent through it” (IEEE
100)
Practical Definitions
▪ In general…
▪ Other types of relays and devices may respond to things such as:
Pressure, Temperature, Vibration, Light, Position, Liquid Level, Air/Oil
Flow, etc. These relays/devices may perform important protective
functions.
Protective Relays
Auxiliary Relays
Not Relays
Not Relays…
but important protective devices.
Relaying?
▪ Transformer Sudden Pressure Relay (Rapid Pressure Rise Relay)
and associated Seal-In Relay
▪ Protective Relays? Auxiliary Relays?
This is an example of a “gray area” many places
▪ Relay Construction:
▪ Single-Function / Multi-Function
▪ Single-Phase / Poly-Phase (multi-phase)
▪ Drawout Case / Fixed
▪ Rack Mount / Panel Mount
▪ Projection Mount / Flush Mount / Semi-Flush Mount
▪ Front Connected, Back Connected
Reliability
▪ Dependability = Trips every time
▪ Security = Never false trips
▪ Life ▪ Calibration/Maintenance
▪ Reliability ▪ Speed
▪ Redundancy/Backup ▪ Accuracy
▪ Simplicity in function ▪ Flexibility
▪ Power draw (on the battery) ▪ Burden (AC current/voltage inputs)
▪ Cost ▪ Information and data recording
▪ Integration
ANSI Device Numbers – IEEE C37.2
▪ Hands-On Relay School Clipboard
▪ WSU EE494 Handout
▪ This Week
▪ 21 Distance Relay
▪ 27 Undervoltage Relay
▪ 50 Instantaneous Overcurrent Relay
▪ 51 AC Time Overcurrent Relay
▪ 52 AC Circuit Breaker
▪ 59 Overvoltage Relay
▪ 67 AC Directional Overcurrent Relay
▪ 79 Reclosing Relay
▪ 87 Differential Relay
ANSI Device Numbers – IEEE C37.2
▪ Number prefixes (or suffixes) are used for multiple similar
devices on the same piece of equipment
▪ Examples:
▪ 101, 201, 301
▪ 121, 221, 321
▪ 21-1, 21-2, 21-3
▪ NERC compliance is the best thing to happen to Relay Techs in 140 years of
electric power! NERC PRC-005 has made relay testing and commissioning
one of the most important functions in the utility industry.
Tools of Protection
Tools of Protection
▪ Electrical theory and math
▪ Phasors
▪ Symmetrical components
▪ Per unit system
▪ Example:
▪ 115/12.47kV, 20/30/40MVA transformer with 8.5% Z.
▪ What is the maximum fault current on the low side?
How will we use “97.36 ohms” in calculating fault current on the low side under normal
conditions? Voltage regulation? Etc.
1-phase or 3-phase, sqrt(3), voltage ratio, current ratio… Pretty tricky!
Per Unit System
A
▪ Example:
▪ 115/12.47kV, 20/30/40MVA transformer with 8.5% Z.
▪ What is the maximum fault current on the low side?
▪ Solution:
𝑃𝑓𝑎𝑢𝑙𝑡 50MVA
= = 22,274 Amps
3×VLL 3×14.4kV×0.09
𝑃𝑓𝑎𝑢𝑙𝑡 2,500kVA
= = 54,673 Amps
3×VLL 3×480V×0.055
Could you have done this with Ohms? It would have been difficult!
Applications
Overcurrent Protection
▪ Monday Afternoon – GE IAC
▪ Electromechanical relay
▪ Single-phase relay, dual function
▪ ANSI 50/51
▪ GE IAC Relay
▪ Total current (60Hz+Harmonics+DC)
▪ SEL-551 Relay
▪ Fundamental current only (60Hz)
▪ Coordinate with
different types of protection
▪ Coordinate 51Q with 51P
▪ Coordinate 51G with Fuse
▪ Coordinate with
equipment damage curves
▪ Curve 2 is an
Overcurrent Relay (51 Only)
▪ Curve 3 is an
Overcurrent Relay (50 and 51)
▪ Verify calibration
(for commissioning and for
maintenance)
▪ Pickup (50/51)
▪ Curve (51)
▪ 3 points for a curve?
▪ Test at M=1.5, 4, 20?
▪ Reset Timing (51)
▪ Targeting
▪ Can automate some of this
▪ Commissioning tests:
▪ Test I/O
▪ Test logic
▪ Functional tests
▪ In-service checks: STA, MET, SER, ER, COM, DAT, TIM, etc.
▪ Sanity check
▪ Maintenance Tests:
▪ In-service checks
▪ Verify settings
▪ Check for firmware updates and service bulletins
▪ Test I/O
▪ Trip check
Reclosing
▪ Tuesday Afternoon
▪ ABB RC
▪ Electromechanical work of art!
▪ BE1-79A
▪ Microprocessor relay
▪ Direct replacement (sometimes) for
ABB RC and GE ACR relays
▪ Thursday Afternoon
▪ SEL-551
▪ Uses:
▪ Fuse-Saving Schemes
▪ Fuse-Blowing Schemes
▪ High-Speed Reclosing Schemes
▪ Automatic Switching Schemes
▪ Maintenance
▪ Timing
▪ Output contacts
▪ Applications
▪ Generator/Machine protection
▪ Hot/Dead Line/Bus close supervision
▪ Undervoltage load shedding
I=0
87B
21 21 21
Differential Protection – Bus
▪ Internal Fault
87B
21 21 21
Differential Protection – Bus
▪ Summary
▪ Bus Differential can be very sensitive and very fast,
and still very secure:
▪ Normal load = current approximately 0
▪ External fault = current approximately 0
▪ Internal fault = current very high
▪ CT performance is critical
▪ CT lead resistance is critical
Differential Protection – Transformer
▪ External Fault (Through Fault)
I=0
O
Differential Protection – Transformer
▪ Internal Fault
O
Differential Protection – Transformer
▪ Transformer Differential looks like Bus Differential
But it isn’t that simple…
▪ Transformers have:
▪ Losses (variable losses)
▪ Inrush
▪ Mismatch between transformer ratio and CT ratio
▪ Variable transformer ratio (no-load tap, LTC)
Differential Protection – Transformer
▪ External Fault (Through Fault)
R R
I=0
R R
▪ In the lab
▪ Operate, Restraint, Slope
▪ Inrush, 2nd Harmonic Restraint
▪ Operates on:
▪ Ground current magnitude
▪ Wired as a residual current (sum of all three phases)
▪ Note:
▪ Phase angle of the ground current doesn’t matter; just the angle
difference.
▪ Magnitude of polarizing quantity doesn’t matter*
* Minimum values for the directional element to operate; maximum values to not damage the relay.
Distance Protection
▪ Thursday Afternoon – GE CEY51A
▪ Mho distance relay
▪ Three-phase
▪ One zone
▪ ANSI 21
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