ABB Relion 670 Series Applications Manual page 144

Section 8
Current protection
³
I
high
EQUATION1265 V1 EN-US
where:
1.2
k
t
Iscmax is the largest fault current at a fault at the most remote point of the primary protection zone.
The operate time of the phase overcurrent protection has to be chosen so that the fault time
is short enough that the protected equipment will not be destroyed due to thermal overload
while, at the same time, selectivity is assured. For overcurrent protection in a radial fed
network, the time setting can be chosen in a graphical way. This is mostly used in the case of
inverse time overcurrent protection. Figure
plotted in a diagram. The time setting is chosen to get the shortest fault time with maintained
selectivity. Selectivity is assured if the time difference between the curves is larger than a
critical time difference.
tfunc1
tfunc2 n
0.01
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Figure 63: Fault time with maintained selectivity
The operation time can be set individually for each overcurrent protection.
To assure selectivity between different protection functions in the radial network, there has to
be a minimum time difference Dt between the time delays of two protections. To determine
the shortest possible time difference, the operation time of the protection, the breaker
opening time and the protection resetting time must be known. These time delays can vary
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× ×
1.2 k I
t sc max
is a safety factor
is a factor that takes care of the transient overreach due to the DC component of the fault current
and can be considered to be less than 1.05
10
n
10
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63 shows how the time-versus-current curves are
Time-current curves
Str
n
Fault Current
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(Equation 34)
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