Protection Application Example

380 kV OHL

19. Automatic Reclosure – Setting Group A

19.1. General

Figure 56: General settings, earth fault overcurrent

3401 Auto-Reclose function: In this application the automatic reclosure function is
required and applied with “1 Cycle” and “with Trip and Action Time”, refer to
parameter 133 and 134 in Chapter 4. This function is therefore activated by
setting it ON.

3402 CB ready interrogation at 1 st trip: Before a reclosure is attempted the circuit

breaker status must be checked. This can be done before the reclose cycle is
started (prior/at time of initiation) or before the reclose command is issued. In
this application the breaker status is checked before the close command is
issued by the recloser so this setting must be NO.

3403 Reclaim time after successful AR cycle: If the reclose is successful, the
recloser must return to the normal state which existed prior to the first fault.
The time set here is started by each reclose command and must take the
system conditions into account (also the circuit breaker recovery time may
have to be considered). Here a setting of 3 sec is applied.

3404 AR blocking duration after manual close: If the manual close binary input is
assigned, then the AR should be blocked for a set time after manual close to
prevent AR when switching onto a fault. In this application the manual close
binary input is not assigned, SOTF is recognised by current flow, and AR not
initiated in this case. This setting is not relevant here as the manual close
binary input is not assigned, the default setting of 1.00 sec is left unchanged.

3406 Evolving fault recognition: If during the single pole dead time a further fault is
detected (evolving fault) the AR function can respond to this in a defined
manner. The detection of evolving fault in this application will be done by
detection of a further (new) trip command initiation to the AR function.
Therefore set with Trip.

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