7EE3 SWITCHGEAR & PROTECTION
 

  1. INTRODUCTION: Causes and consequences of dangerous currents; fault over loads and switching over currents. Basic idea of an over current relay as a level detector selectivity, discrimination sensitivity reliability of relay fastness of operation. Upper and lower limits for the time of relay operation current grading Time grading and inverse time operation. Primary and backup protection. Pickup and reset values.

  2. CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF RELAY: construction and operation of electromagnetic over current and directional relays. Directional element to be realized from rectifier bridge circuits. Connection of directional element and their operating characteristics. Directional relay connections 30 deg,60 deg and 90 deg. connections Directional Earth fault relay. Directional Relay connections 30 deg, 60 deg and 90 deg connections. Directional earth fault relay.

  3. DISTANCE PROTECTION OF TRANSMISSION LINES: Construction and characteristics of impedance relay, C.T. and P.T. connection for performance Reactance and mho relay characteristics Transmission line protection.

  4. CARRIER CURRENT PROTECTION OF TRANSMISSION LINES: Basic apparatus used for power line carrier system. Principle of operation of directional comparison and phase comparison carrier protection, carrier assisted distance protection.

  5. PROTECTION OF SYNCHRONOUS GENERATORS AND TRANSFORMERS: faults in stator winding of alternators, differential protection Effect of resistance in the star point earthling single and multiple ground faults on the rotor. Protection against excitation failure and prime mover failure. Negative sequence protection. Differential protection of generator transformer unit. Differential protection of 3-phase transformers; effect of magnetizing inrush currents, methods for minimizing the effects. Beholds protection. CT connections.

  6. BUS BAR PROTECTION: Frame leakage and circulating current protection.

  7. CIRCUIT BREAKERS: Electric are, are characteristics, theories of current interruption, energy balance and recovery rate theory, transient recovery voltage in simple three phase circuits, rate of rise of restricting voltage, resistance switching, current chopping, interruption of capacitive currents circuit breaker ratings, practical systems of are quenching in air and oil. Construction and operation of bulk oil, minimum oil and air blast circuit breakers. Recent trends in HV circuit breakers, sulpher hexa fluoride,vacuum circuit breakers, principle of DC circuit breaking, testing of circuit breakers.


RECOMMENDED BOOKS:

  1. M Chander: Switchgear protection 2. S S Rao:Switchgear & protection

  2. T M S Rao: Static Relays