Protection Application Example

380 kV OHL

3134 Instantaneous trip after SwitchOnToFault: As stated above, only the distance
protection operates with SOTF so set NO here.

3135 Inrush Blocking: As stated above, inrush blocking is not applied so set NO
here.

17.5. 3I0 Inverse Time

Figure 53: 3I0 Inverse Time stage settings, earth fault overcurrent
3140 Operating mode: This stage is not required so it is set to Inactive.

Because this stage is inactive, the settings 3141 to 3151 are of no consequence and
left on their default values.

17.6. Direction

Figure 54: Direction settings, earth fault overcurrent

3160 Polarization: Because two of the applied stages of the earth fault overcurrent
protection are directional (forward) the choice of polarising signal must be
carefully considered. If both negative and zero sequence infeed is present at
the relay location polarisation with U0 + IY or U2 provides excellent results.
The earth current from a star connected and earthed transformer winding is

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