Purpose: This guide has been prepared to assist protection engineers in the application of relays and other devices for the protection of shunt capacitor banks used in substations. It covers methods of protection for many commonly used shunt capacitor bank configurations including the latest protection techniques.
The guide does not include a discussion of pole-mounted capacitor banks on distribution circuits or application of capacitors connected to rotating apparatus. Purpose: This guide has been prepared to assist in the application of relays and other devices for the protection of shunt capacitor banks used in substations.
The objective of the capacitor bank protection is to alarm on the failure of some minimum number of elements or units and trip on some higher number of failures. It is, of course, desirable to detect any element failure. II. ELEMENT AND UNIT FAILURES EXAMINED
Guidelines forreliable applications of protection methods intended for use in many shunt capacitor applicationsand designs are included. The protection of pole-mounted capacitor banks on distribution circuitsand the application of capacitors connected directly to routing apparatus are not included.
CONCLUSION The many variations in capacitor bank design mean there is no one-size-fits-all solution to bank protection. The basic concepts of short-circuit protection and element failure detection remain unchanged, regardless of bank design. We recognize that different protection types are useful for different conditions.
Protective monitoring controls are available for capacitor banks connected Wye-Wye, grounded-neutral capacitor banks, and ungrounded-neutral capacitor banks, as shown in figures 1 and 2. This topic is discussed further below in Protection of capacitor Banks. The above scheme applicable to double Wye-configured banks is shown in figure 1.
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