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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 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 ofRestricted
Earth Fault Relay takes place. This scheme of restricted earth fault protectionis 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 ofelectrical
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 unbalancecurrent 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 currents are equal in amplitude there will not be any resultant currentcirculate
through the said close path. The Restricted Earth Fault Relay is connected in this close path.
Hence the relay will not response even there is an unbalancing in phasecurrent of the power
transformer.
Dissolve Gas Analysis of oil also to be done preferably once in 4 years. If the results are found unsatisfactory as per
standard, the insulating oil must be replaced.
In case of unsatisfactory oil level in the MOG, oil to be filled in transformer and also the transformer tank to be
checked for oil leakage. If oil leakage is found take required action to plug the leakage. If silica gel becomes pinkish, it
should be replaced.
DIFFERENTIAL PROTECTION:-Generally Differential protection is provided in the electrical power transformer rated more than 5MVA.
The Differential Protection of Transformer has many advantages over other schemes of protection.
1) The faults occur in the transformer inside the insulating oil can be detected by Buchholz relay. But if any fault
occurs in the transformer but not in oil then it can not be detected by Buchholz relay. Any flash over at the bushings
are not adequately covered by Buchholz relay. Differential relays can detect such type of faults. Moreover Buchholz
relay is provided in transformer for detecting any internal fault in the transformer but Differential Protection scheme
detects the same in more faster way.
2) The differential relays normally response to those faults which occur in side the differential protection zone of
transformer.
At maximum through fault current, the spill output produced by the small percentage unbalance may be substantial.
Therefore, differential protection of transformer should be provided with a proportional bias of an amount which
exceeds in effect the maximum ratio deviation.
This is a core type transformer with three limbs. Every phase winding in zigzag connection is divided into two equal
halves. One half of which is wound on one limb and other half is wound on another limb of the core of transformer.
1st half of Red phase winding is wound on the 1st limb of the core and 2nd half of same Red phase is wound on 3rd
limb.
1st half of Yellow phase winding is wound on the 2nd limb of the core and 2nd half of same Yellow phase is wound on
1st limb.
1st half of Blue phase winding is wound on the 3rd limb of the core and 2nd half of same Blue phase is wound on 2nd
limb.
End point of all three winding ultimately connected together and forms a common neutral point. Now if any fault
occurs at any of the phases in delta connected system, the zero sequence fault current has close path of circulating
through earth as shown in the figure.
In normal condition of the system, the voltage across the winding of the earthing transformer is 1/3 times of rated per
phase voltage of the system. But when single line to ground fault occurs on any phase of the system, as shown in the
figure, zero sequence component of the earth fault current flows in the earth and returns to the electrical powersystem
by way of earth star point of the earthing transformer. It gets divided equally in all the three phases. Hence, as
shown in the figure, the currents in the two different halves of two windings in the same limb of the core flow in
opposite directions.
And therefore the magnetic flux set up by these two currents will oppose and neutralize each other. As there is no
increase in flux due to fault current, there is no change of d/dt means no choking effect occurs to impede the flow of
fault current. So it can be concluded like that, the zigzag type earthing or grounding transformer maintains the rated
supplyvoltage at normal current as well as when a solid single line to ground fault current flows through it.
The rated voltage of an earthing or grounding transformer is the line to line voltage on which it is intended to be used.
Current rating of this transformer is the maximum neutralcurrent in Amperes that the transformer is designed to carry
in fault condition for a specific time. Generally the time interval, for which transformer designed to carry the maximum
fault current through it safely, is taken as 30 second.
B = C V/f,
where, C = A constant,
V = Induced voltage,
f = Frequency.
The magnetic flux density is, therefore, proportional to the quotient of voltage and frequency (V/f). Over fluxing can,
therefore, occur either due to increase in voltage or decrease in-frequency of both.
The probability of over fluxing is relatively high in step-up transformers in Power stations compared to step down
transformers in Sub-Stations, where voltage and frequency usually remain constant. However, under very abnormal
system condition, over-fluxing trouble can arise in step-down Sub-Station transformers as well.
Component
involved
Physical evidences
Metallic support
and surfaces
adjacent insulation.Possible
and coils
Consequences
Windings
Lead conductors.
evolution of gas.
Discoloration of conductor
weakening of insulation,
gas.
Mechanical Weakening of
support.
Discoloration of insulating material
in contact with core. Discoloration
4
Core lamination.
and carbonization of
organic/lamination insulation
Evaluation of gas.
Contamination of oil if paint
5
Tank
Blistering of paints
It may be seen that metallic support structures for core and coil, windings, lead conductors, core lamination, tank etc.
may attain sufficient temperature with the evolution of combustible gas in each case due to over fluxing of transformer
and the same gas may be collected in Buchholz Relay with consequent Alarm/Trip depending upon the quantity of
gas collected which again depends upon the duration of time the transformer is subjected to over fluxing.
Due to over fluxing in transformer its core becomes saturated as such induced voltage in the primary circuit
becomes more or less constant. If the supply voltage to the primary is increased to abnormal high value, there must
be high magnetising current in the primary circuit. Under such magnetic state of condition of transformer core linear
relations between primary and secondary quantities (viz. for voltage and currents) are lost. So there may not be
sufficient and appropriate reflection of this high primary magnetising currentto secondary circuit as such mismatching
of primary currents and secondary currents is likely to occur, causing differential relay to operate as we do not have
overfluxing protection for sub-stn. transformers.
1.1
1.2
1.25
1.3
1.4
continuous
0.5
From the table above it may be seen that when over fluxing due to system hazards reaches such that the factor F
attains a values 1.4, the transformer shall be tripped out of service instantaneously otherwise there may be a
permanent damage.
In pure capacitor, the capacitive electric current leads the applied voltage by 90.
In practice, the insulator cannot be made 100% pure. Also due to ageing of insulator the impurities like, dirt and
moisture enter into it. These impurities provide conductive path to the current. Consequently, leakage electric
current flowing from line earth through insulator has also resistive component.
Hence, it is needless to say that, for good insulator, this resistive component of leakageelectric current is quite low. In
other way the healthiness of an electrical insulator can be determined by ratio of resistive component to capacitive
component. For good insulator this ratio would be quite low. This ratio is commonly known as tan or tan delta.
Sometimes it is also referred as dissipation factor.
In the vector diagram above, the system voltage is drawn along x-axis. Conductive electric current i.e. resistive
component of leakage current, IR will also be along x-axis.
As the capacitive component of leakage electric current IC leads system voltage by 90, it will be drawn along y-axis.
Now, total leakage electric current IL(Ic + IR) makes an angle (say) with y-axis.
Now, from the diagram above, it is cleared, the ratio, IR to IC is nothing but tan or tan delta.
From the graph it is clear that, the tan&delta number non linearly increases with increasing test very low frequency
voltage. The increasing tan&delta, means, high resistiveelectric current component, in the insulation. These results
can be compared with the results of previously tested insulators, to take proper decision whether the equipment would
be replaced or not.
Internal Earth Faults in a Star Connected Winding with Neutral Point Solidly
Earthed
In this case, earthing impedance is ideally zero. The fault current is dependent up onleakage reactance of the portion
of winding comes across faulty point and neutral point of transformer. The fault current is also dependent on the
distance between neutral point and fault point in the transformer. As said in previous case the voltage across these
two points depends upon the number of winding turn comes across faulty point and neutral point. So in star
connected winding with neutral point solidly earthed, the fault currentdepends upon two main factors, first the leakage
reactance of the winding comes across faulty point and neutral point and secondly the distance between faulty point
and neutral point. But the leakage reactance of the winding varies in complex manner with position of the fault in the
winding. It is seen that the reactance decreases very rapidly for fault point approaching the neutral and hence the
fault current is highest for the fault near the neutral end. So at this point, the voltage available for fault current is low
and at the same time the reactance opposes the fault current is also low, hence the value of fault current is high
enough. Again at fault point away from the neutral point, the voltage available for fault current is high but at the same
time reactance offered by the winding portion between fault point and neutral point is high. It can be noticed that the
fault current stays a very high level throughout the winding. In other word, the fault current maintain a very high
magnitude irrelevant to the position of the fault on winding.
output current in the transformer, hence these faults can not be detected by normal electrical protection scheme. This
is desirable to detect the local over heating condition of the transformer core before any major fault occurs. Excessive
over heating leads to breakdown of transformer insulating oil with evolution of gases. These gases are accumulated in
Buchholz relay and actuating Buchholz Alarm.
Sweep Frequency Response Analysis Test or in short SFRA Test can detect efficiently, displacement of transformer
core, deformation and displacement of winding, faulty core grounds, collapse of partial winding, broken or loosen
clamp connections, short circuited turns, open winding conditions etc.
In Sweep Frequency Response Analysis a sinusoidal voltage Vi is applied to one end of a winding and
output voltage Vo is measured at the other end of the winding. Other windings are kept open.
As the winding is itself an distributed RLC circuit it will behave like RLC filter and gives different output voltages at
different frequencies. That means if we go on increasing the frequency of the input signal without changing
its voltage level we will get different output voltages at different frequencies depending upon the RLC nature of the
winding. If we plot these output voltages against the corresponding frequencies we will get a particular patter for a
particular winding.
But after transportation, heavy short circuit faults, transient switching impulses and lightening impulses etc, if we do
same Sweep Frequency Response Analysis test and superimpose the present signature with the earlier patterns and
observe some deviation between these tow graphs, we can asses that there is mechanical displacement and
deformation occurred in the winding.
In addition to that, SFRA test also helps us to compare between physical condition of the same winding of different
phases at the same tap position.
It also compares different transformers of the same design.
Analysis
Low frequency response
1) Winding behaves as a simple RL circuit formed by series inductor and resistance of the winding (At low
frequencies capacitance cats as almost open circuit)
2) At low frequency winding inductances are determined by the magnetic circuit of the transformer core.
High frequency response
3) At high frequency winding behaves as RLC circuits
4) Winding exhibits many resonant points
5) Frequency responses are more sensitive to winding movement.
CONDITIONS
2.
Then one thermometer is placed in a pocket in transformer top cover. Other two thermometers are placed at
the inlet and outlet of the cooler bank respectively.
3.
The voltage of such value is applied to the HV winding that power input is equal to no load losses plus load
losses corrected to a reference temperature of 75C.
4.
5.
During the test, hourly readings of top oil temperature are taken from the thermometer already placed in the
pocket of top cover.
6.
Hourly readings of the thermometers placed at inlet and outlet of the cooler bank are also noted to calculate
the mean temperature of the oil.
7.
Ambient temperature is measured by means of thermometer placed around the transformer at three or four
points situated at a distance of 1 to 2 meter from and half-way up the cooling surface of the transformer.
8.
Temperature rise test for top oil of transformer should be continued until the top oil temperature has reached
an approximate steady value that means testing would be continued until the temperature increment of the top oil
becomes less than 3C in one hour. This steady value of top oil is determined as final temperature rise of transformer
insulating oil.
9.
There is another method of determination of oil temperature. Here the test in allowed to be continued until
the top oil temperature rise does not vary more than 1C per hour for four consecutive hours. The least reading is
taken as final temperature rise of the oil.
During temperature rise test for top oil of transformer we make the LV winding short circuited and
apply voltageto the HV winding. So for full load rated current flows in the transformer, the
supplyvoltage required will much less than rated transformer voltage. We know that core loss of a
transformer depends upon voltage. So there will not be any considerable core loss occurs in the transformer
during test. But for getting actual temperature rise of the oil in a transformer, we have to compensate the lack
of core losses by additional copper loss in the transformer. For supplying this total losses, transformer
draws current from the source much more than its rated value for transformer.
Temperature rise limits of transformer when it is oil immersed, given in the table below
TEMPERATURE RISE
TEMPERATURE RISE
LIMIT
LIMIT
FOR AIR AS
FOR WATER AS
COOLING MEDIUM
COOLING MEDIUM
WINDIN 55oC
60oC
CONDITION
65oC
50oC
55oC
&
equipped with conservator
tank
TOP OIL
When transformer is neither
sealed
45oC
50oC
NB: These temperature rises limits mentioned in the above table are the temperature rise above the temperature of
cooling medium. That means these are the difference between winding or oil temperature and temperature of cooling
air or water.
After completion of temperature rise test for top oil of transformer the current is reduced to its rated value for
transformer and is maintained for one hour.
2.
After one hour the supply is switch off and short circuit and supply connection to the HV side and short
circuit connection to the LV side are opened.
3.
But, the fans and pumps are kept running (if any).
4.
5.
6.
7.
Graph of hot resistance versus time is plotted, from which winding resistance (R2) at the instant of shut down
can be extrapolated.
8.
From this value, 2, the winding temperature at the instant of shut down can be determined by the formula
given below-
Procedure
1.
All three line terminals of the winding to be tested are connected together.
2.
Other winding terminals which are not under test and also tank of the transformer should be connected to
earth.
3.
Then a single-phase power frequency voltage of shape approximately sinusoidal is applied for 60 seconds to
the terminals of the winding under test.
4.
5.
The test is successful if no break down in the dielectric of the insulation occurs during test.
In this transformer testing, the peak value of voltage is measured, that is why the capacitorvoltage divider with digital
peak voltmeter is employed as shown in the diagram above. The peal value multiplied by 0.707 (1/2) is the test
voltage.
The values of test voltage for different fully insulated winding are furnished below in the table.
NOMINAL SYSTEM
HIGHEST SYSTEM
VOLTAGE RATING
VOLTAGE RATING
FOR EQUIPMENT
FOR EQUIPMENT
415V
1.1 KV
3 KV
11 KV
12 KV
28 KV
33 KV
36 KV
70 KV
132 KV
145 KV
230 / 275 KV
220 KV
245 KV
360 / 395 KV
400 KV
420 KV
570 / 630 KV
WINDING WITH GRADED INSULATION, WHICH HAS NEUTRAL INTENDED FOR DIRECT
EARTHING,
IS TESTED AT 38KV
The induced voltage test of transformer is intended to check the inter turn and line end insulation as well as main
insulation to earth and between windings1.
2.
3.
4.
transformer.
As a benchmark for assessing possible damages in the field.
It is done at site in order to check for abnormalities due to loose connections,
broken strands of conductor, high contact resistance in tap changers,
high voltage leads and bushings.
Generally transformer windings are immersed in insulation liquid and covered with
paper insulation, hence it is impossible to measure the actual winding temperature
in a de-energizing transformer at time of transformer
winding resistance measurement. An approximation is developed to calculate
temperature of winding at that condition, as follows
The readings shall be taken after the current and voltage have reached
steady state values. In some cases this may take several minutes depending upon
the winding impedance.
The test current shall not exceed 15% of the rated current of the winding.
Large values may cause inaccuracy by heating the winding and thereby changing
itsresistance.
For expressing resistance, the corresponding temperature of the winding
at the time of measurement must be mentioned along with resistance value. As we
said earlier that after remaining in switch off condition for 3 to 4 hours, the winding
temperature would become equal to oil temperature. The oil temperature at the
time of testing is taken as the average of top oil and bottom oil temperatures of
transformer.
For star connected three phase winding, the resistance per phase would
be half of measured resistance between two line terminals of the transformer.
For delta connected three phase winding, the resistance per phase would
be 0.67 times of measured resistance between two line terminals of the
transformer.
This current voltage method of measurement of winding resistance of
transformer should be repeated for each pair of line terminals of winding at every
tap position.
The phase sequence or the order in which the phases reach their maximum positive voltages, must be identical for
two paralleled transformers. Otherwise, during the cycle, each pair of phases will be short circuited.
The several secondary connections are available in respect of various primary three phase connection in a the three
phase transformer. So for same primary applied three phasevoltage there may be different three phase secondary
voltages with various magnitudes and phases for different internal connection of the transformer.
Lets have a discussion in detail by example for better understanding.
We know that, the primary and secondary coils on any one limb have induced emfs that are in time-phase. Lets
consider two transformers of same number primary turns and the primary windings are connected in star. The
secondary number of turns per phase in both transformers are also same. But the first transformer has star connected
secondary and other transformer has delta connected secondary. If same voltages are applied in primary of both
transformers, the secondary induced emf in each phase will be in same time-phase with that of respective primary
phase, as because the the primary and secondary coils of same phase are wound on the same limb in the core of
transformer. In first transformer, as the secondary is star connected, the secondary line voltage is 3 times of
induced voltage per secondary phase coil. But in case of second transformer, where secondary is delta connected,
the line voltage is equal to induced voltage per secondary phase coil. If we go through the vector diagram of
secondary line voltages of both transformer, we will easily find that there will be a clear 30o angular difference between
the line voltages of these transformers. Now, if we try to run these transformers in parallel then there will be a
circulating current flows between the transformers as because there is a phase angle difference between their
secondary line voltages. This phase difference can not be compensated. Thus two sets of connections giving
secondary voltages with a phase displacement can not be intended for parallel operation of transformers.
The following table gives the connections for which from the view point of phase sequence and angular divergences,
transformer can be operated parallel. According to their vector relation, all three phase transformers are divided into
different vector group of transformer. All electrical power transformers of a particular vector group can easily be
operated in parallel if they fulfill other condition for parallel operation of transformers.
GRO
UP
CONNECTION
CONNECTION
YY0
DD0
YD1
DY1
0
(0O)
1
( 30O)
YY6
DD6
YD11
DY11
6
( 180
)
11
(
30O)
2.
3.
4.
5.
Measure voltages between terminals 2U-1N, 2V-1N, 2W-1N, that means voltages between each LV terminal
and HV neutral.
Also measure voltages between terminals 2V-1V, 2W-1W and 2V-1W.
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