National Grid SA

Technical Services Business Line

COMMISSIONING SERVICES DEPARTMENT

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Be re Awareness Information:
Awa
Circuit Breaker Failure Relay (CBF) Awareness

Ensure that the load shedding(under frequency and under voltage) does not
initiate CBF.

Ensure the following in Ensure that the blocking of opening CB

configuration of protection relay: for Bus Coupler and Bus Section in Load
Transfer scheme does not initiate CBF

There is no CBF initiation B1A

internally. B2A B2B

D1

There is no CBF initiation D2

from any protection alarm

like neutral alarm protection for BC BS
Power transformer.

Testing CBF protection in Live Substation:

Protection Panel Test Switch
Lockout Relay

86

CBF Initiation
94

Tripping Relay

ENSURE that CBF

protection is isolated by test
switch during relay testing
taking into consideration the
!
+ continuity of current

Ø During testing of CBF and its scheme, DO NOT

! Must not be
Operated
86
CBF OPERATE Lockout Relay(86 CBF) at all.

- Ø Before Starting testing CBF in Live substation, Be

sure that the DC isolation has been done correctly
and no chance of wrong Operation

Ø During Normalization and restoration of CBF, Work

carefully and ensure that there will no wrong
operation.