Unbalance protection of fuseless, split-wye, grounded, shunt capacitor banks

In recent years, a large number of electric utilities have been implementing fuseless split-wye grounded capacitor banks in lieu of the traditional externally fused bank. This change in philosophy has forced many protection engineers to research new methods of calculating the quantities needed to ap...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE transactions on power delivery 2002-07, Vol.17 (3), p.698-701
Main Authors: Horton, R., Warren, T., Fender, K., Harry, S., Gross, C.A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Banks
Capacitor banks
Capacitors
Electric power generation
Electric utilities
Mathematical analysis
Philosophy
Power capacitors
Power generation
Power generation economics
Power industry
Power system economics
Power system protection
Power system reliability
Reactive power
Shunt (electrical)
Unbalance
Voltage
Citations: Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:In recent years, a large number of electric utilities have been implementing fuseless split-wye grounded capacitor banks in lieu of the traditional externally fused bank. This change in philosophy has forced many protection engineers to research new methods of calculating the quantities needed to apply unbalance protection. This paper presents a novel method of calculating the unbalance current produced by fuseless capacitor unit failures as well as some general background information regarding fuseless split-wye grounded capacitor bank technology and unbalanced protection.
ISSN:0885-8977
1937-4208
DOI:10.1109/TPWRD.2002.1022789