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Medium Voltage Wye-Delta Grounding

11/17/2009 2:56 AM

I have a deisel power plant about 40 meg. One bank of gens is 11Kv wye with an earthing resistor connected to the neutral of each generator. another bank of gens is 416v steppped up thru trannies to 11Kv delta, ungrounded. these are all connected to the same bus.
We have some small earth leakage out in the distribution and also intermittant ground fault from birds, rain and whatever. My concern is that the ground fault that is returning to the wye gens is not a problem in itself, but since some of the current originates from the Delta source, and is trying to get home via the other two phases, it is doing so by passing thru the alternators at the wye source. This in itself might not be a problem except that it is known that groundfaults on an ungrounded system (consider the Delta source gens) have a tendency to build up capacitance which will release at 7 or 8 times the normal voltage. We are experiencing frequent fires in the termination boxes of the WYE source alterators. I think that it is caused by the capacitance discharging and then a path has been created for the rest of the burnout. Has anyone else tied wye and delta together like this or am I a guinea pig? does my theory hold water?

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Re: Medium Voltage WYE-Delta grounding

11/17/2009 6:37 AM

Well my friend, you are not sure about your question. I really couldn't able to understand anything.

However, I will tell something to you. Since the neutral generators are star connected and grounded through resistance. So, i am feeling that there will be chances of unbalance current in each phase of the generator, which leads to fire in terminal box due to excessive heating.

I suggest you to use that grounding resistance to balance the current in each phase, then you will avoid heating of each component of generator.

Technically, negative phase sequence is the only reason for the current unbalance in the circuit. Where as positive phase sequence is true power.

Hope you understand.

Suvek Kumar

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Re: Medium Voltage WYE-Delta grounding

11/17/2009 9:31 AM

In such schemes, it is normal practice to keep all the generator neutrals isolated from earth and earth the bus using an earthing (ZIGZAG) Transformer. This way, earth leakage current or earth fault current will find its route only thro the earthing transformer and not thro any generator.

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