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Unbalance Current Effect on LV Relay

04/23/2015 9:17 AM

Dear All,

We are running Power Plant. We faced differential fault on generator which opened the Generator Circuit Breaker and within no time our Grid Circuit Breaker Opened due to LV Relay (11 KV Under Voltage Relay )Operated. We downloaded the events from GPR(Generator Protection Relay) which showed that after Generator Circuit breaker opened, unbalance current was picked up and then LV Relay operated at Under Voltage. My question is that can unbalance current result in under voltage at bus and Grid Circuit Breaker Opened? and Why?

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Re: Unbalance current effect on LV Relay

04/23/2015 9:48 AM

Yes.

When the generator CB opened due to differential fault, the system (grid) voltage suffered a disturbance and became unstable.

System voltage instability is/was a result of the loss of available power on/in the grid due to sudden removal (loss) of generation which in turn required other generators either at your site or generators at other locations feeding the grid to absorb the sudden increased load.

Due to the generator protection event tripping speed, generator excitation circuits cannot possibly recover fast enough to keep the system voltage from immediately sagging and then becoming unstable.

The LV relay sensed the voltage sag and isolated your site from the grid.

You should be able to extract and view the voltage level DATA from the event recorder for a period of time beginning just before the event occurred throughout the event time period to verify the exact amount of voltage sag that occurred.

I suggest you identify the root-cause of the differential trip before putting the faulted generator back on line.

Good luck and stay safe.

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