Restricted earth fault protection is used to detect internal earth faults in electrical power transformers. It works by connecting the secondary windings of current transformers on each phase together and to the secondary of a neutral current transformer. During an internal fault, an unbalanced current flows through the neutral that is detected by the relay. This makes the protection highly sensitive to internal faults while avoiding operation for external faults where balancing currents cancel each other out. The scheme is cheaper than differential protection and effective for sensing internal earth faults in transformers.
Restricted earth fault protection is used to detect internal earth faults in electrical power transformers. It works by connecting the secondary windings of current transformers on each phase together and to the secondary of a neutral current transformer. During an internal fault, an unbalanced current flows through the neutral that is detected by the relay. This makes the protection highly sensitive to internal faults while avoiding operation for external faults where balancing currents cancel each other out. The scheme is cheaper than differential protection and effective for sensing internal earth faults in transformers.
Restricted earth fault protection is used to detect internal earth faults in electrical power transformers. It works by connecting the secondary windings of current transformers on each phase together and to the secondary of a neutral current transformer. During an internal fault, an unbalanced current flows through the neutral that is detected by the relay. This makes the protection highly sensitive to internal faults while avoiding operation for external faults where balancing currents cancel each other out. The scheme is cheaper than differential protection and effective for sensing internal earth faults in transformers.
Restricted earth fault protection is used to detect internal earth faults in electrical power transformers. It works by connecting the secondary windings of current transformers on each phase together and to the secondary of a neutral current transformer. During an internal fault, an unbalanced current flows through the neutral that is detected by the relay. This makes the protection highly sensitive to internal faults while avoiding operation for external faults where balancing currents cancel each other out. The scheme is cheaper than differential protection and effective for sensing internal earth faults in transformers.
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Restricted Earth Fault Protection of Transformer
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Restricted Earth Fault Protection of Transformer
An external fault in the star side will result in current flowing in the line current transformer of the affected phase and at the same time a balancing current flows in the neutral current transformer, hence the resultant electric current in the relay is therefore zero. So this REF relay will not be actuated for external earth fault. But during internal fault the neutral current transformer only carries the unbalance fault current and operation of Restricted Earth Fault Relay takes place. This scheme ofrestricted earth fault protection is very sensitive for internal earth fault of electrical power transformer. The protection scheme is comparatively cheaper than differential protection scheme Restricted earth fault protection is provided in electrical power transformer for sensing internal earth fault of the transformer. In this scheme the CT secondary of each phase of electrical power transformer are connected together as shown in the figure. Then common terminals are connected to the secondary of a Neutral Current Transformer or NCT. The CT or Current Transformer connected to the neutral of power transformer is called Neutral Current Transformer or Neutral CT or simply NCT. Whenever there is an unbalancing in between three phases of the power transformer, a resultant unbalance current flow through the close path connected to the common terminals of the CT secondaries. An unbalance current will also flow through the neutral of power transformer and hence there will be a secondary current in Neutral CT because of this unbalance neutral current. In Restricted Earth Fault scheme the common terminals of phase CTs are connected to the secondary of Neutral CT in such a manner that secondary unbalance current of phase CTs and the secondary current of Neutral CT will oppose each other. If these both electric currents are equal in amplitude there will not be any resultant current circulate through the said close path. The Restricted Earth FaultRelay is connected in this close path. Hence the relay will not response even there is an unbalancing in phase current of the power transformer.