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One and Half Bus System & One And Half Circuit
Breaker Scheme

One and half Bus System:

In Switchyard two most Bus bar schemes are very popular one is One and Half Breaker Bus
System (3/2 bus) and Double Bus Bar arrangement. In high voltage system typically above 220
kV Switchyard, One and Half Breaker Bus System is mostly recommended because of it have
many advantage over double bus system.

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Advantage of one and half bus system:
During any fault on any one of the buses, that faulty bus will be cleared instantly without
interrup ng any feeders in the system since all feeders will con nue to feed from other healthy
bus.
It occupies less space.
Maintenance free. Maintenance of more than one breaker is possible without any loss of service
High stable opera on.
Very less Cost as compared with Two Main and Transfer Bus Scheme

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In Switchyard, Bus are made of hollow tubular aluminum called IPS Tubes. Corona and
electrosta c field performance is be er for tube type bus; therefore, Aluminum Tubes are used
for Buses.

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One And Half Circuit Breaker Scheme

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One and Half Bus System

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In One and Half Breaker Scheme, three breakers are connected between the two buses. Each Breaker
is provided with two Isolators and two Earth Switches in each side of the breaker. These Isolators are
provided to physically isolate the Circuit Breaker for maintenance. Earth Switch ES is provided to
ensure that isolated portion is effectively earthed. Earth Switch shall be closed after the opening of
Isolator.

Refer the diagram, Feeder2 can be charged from CB1 + CB2, CB3, and CB1+CB2+CB3. Like that
feeder1 can be charged from CB3 + CB2, CB1, and CB1+CB2+CB3. You absorb that, for
protec ng two feeders, three circuit breakers are used. Thus, this kind of arrangement is called
3/2 i.e. One and Half Breaker scheme.

Lets prove one advantage of three and half bus system:

Let us assume a fault in Feeder-1. Due to the fault in the feeder1, the CB1 and CB2 open due to
the fault. At that same me the feeder s ll in service from the bus 2. Thus the reliability of the
power system increases.
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Also if you want take maintenance on any breaker, you can charge the feeders via any bus 1 or
2. i.e you want to take maintenance of CB1, then you can charge the feeder 1 via CB2 and CB3.
You can feed the power supply to any load under any one of the breaker under maintenance.

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