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OverCurrentandEarthFaultProtectionofTransformer
BackupprotectionofelectricaltransformerissimpleOverCurrentandEarthFaultprotectionappliedagainstexternalshortcircuit
andexcessiveoverloads.TheseovercurrentandearthFaultrelaysmaybeofInverseDefiniteMinimumTime(IDMT)orDefiniteTimetype
relays.GenerallyIDMTrelaysareconnectedtotheinfeedsideofthetransformer.
Theovercurrentrelayscannotdistinguishbetweenexternalshortcircuit,overloadandinternalfaultsofthetransformer.Foranyoftheabove
fault,backupprotectioni.e.overcurrentandearthfaultprotectionconnectedtoinfeedsideofthetransformerwilloperate.
Backupprotectionisalthoughgenerallyinstalledatinfeedsideofthetransformer,butitshouldtripboththeprimaryandsecondarycircuit
breakersofthetransformer.
OverCurrentandEarthFaultprotectionrelaysmaybealsoprovidedinloadsideofthetransformertoo,butitshouldnotintertriptheprimary
sidecircuitbreakerlikethecaseofbackupprotectionatinfeedside.Theoperationisgovernedprimarilybycurrentandtimesettingsandthe
characteristiccurveoftherelay.Topermituseofoverloadcapacityofthetransformerandcoordinationwithothersimilarrelaysatabout
125to150%offullloadcurrentofthetransformerbutbelowtheminimumshortcircuitcurrent.
Backupprotectionoftransformer has four elements, three over current relays connected each in each phase and one earth fault relay
connectedtothecommonpointofthreeovercurrentrelaysasshowninthefigure.ThenormalrangeofcurrentsettingsavailableonIDMT
overcurrentrelaysis50%to200%andonearthfaultrelay20to80%.
Anotherrangeofsettingonearthfaultrelayisalsoavailableandmaybeselectedwheretheearthfaultcurrentisrestrictedduetoinsertionof
impedanceintheneutralgrounding.Inthecaseoftransformerwindingwithneutralearthed,unrestrictedearthfaultprotectionisobtainedby
connectinganordinaryearthfaultrelayacrossaneutralcurrenttransformer.
Theunrestrictedovercurrentandearthfaultrelaysshouldhavepropertimelagtocoordinatewiththeprotectiverelaysofothercircuitto
avoidindiscriminatetripping.
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