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Author: h.gras
Type: Example
Downloaded: 691 times
Date: 2015-06-16

Content of the webinar studies from A to Z on TRV

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Designs built or presented during the webinar of the series Studies from A to Z on Transient Recovery Voltage
Models built:
- Rating TRV envelop (IEC 62271-100 / C37.010 - 2011)
- CP / ... see moreFD lines
- Thevenin equivalent of a network

Tag(s): TRV, Transient recovery voltage, short-line fault, terminal fault, substation, 62271, 37.011, lines, switching, thevenin

Author: n.sene
Type: Publication
Date: 2015-04-01

Transient recovery voltages in vacuum circuit breakers generated by the early-interruption of the inrush current of large motors

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The switching of medium voltage electrical motors is typically realized by means of vacuum circuit breakers (VCBs) essentially in view of their elevated number of switching cycles. As known, switching... see more of VCBs generates important transient recovery voltages (TRVs)
that need to be properly evaluated in both VCB sizing and in the power system insulation coordination. As large medium voltage electrical motors are installed into plants typically controlled by means of Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems,
maneuvers that involve the motor inrush followed by its sudden de-energization (due, in general, to the intervention of an automatic diagnostic function), resulting into important TRVs, are not unusual. The paper aims at investigating the TRVs due to this specific type of
VCB switching by means of a model implemented in the EMTP-RV simulation environment. By making reference to a real plant, the validation of the implemented models is obtained by comparing the simulation results with some experimental transients provided by the plant data fault recorder. The paper finally discusses the adequacy of different countermeasures by analyzing their effectiveness for the TRVs limitation.

Authors: A. Borghetti, F. Napolitano, C.A. Nucci, M. Paolone, M. Sultan, N. Tripaldi

CIGRE - International Symposium “Assessing and Improving Power System Security, Reliability and Performance in Light of Changing Energy Sources” Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, April 3-6, 2011
Topic 3 – System technical performance
Subtopic 3.5 – Switching and lightning transient on power systems. Impact on performance and measurements

Tag(s): Transient recovery voltages, vacuum circuit breakers, motor inrush currents, EMTP simulations

Author: e.rutovic
Type: Example
Downloaded: 1148 times
Date: 2013-02-20

JavaScript Examples

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Some simple EMTP-RV scripts :
- Parameters sweep
- Change the simulation options
- Run simulation
- Change the fault location
- Change the transformer remanent flux
- Cha... see morenge the switching Times

Tag(s): Script, Javascript

Author: AdminEMTP-RV
Type: Model
Downloaded: 392 times
Date: 2012-06-18

Ferro_hyst_Zno

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Simple ferroresonance case. In this case the switching of a part of the network comprised of a cable connected to a no-load transformer is carried out. A pole of the breaker fails to open and an impor... see moretant and stable ferroresonance phenomena appears.
The ferroresonance problem, whether in a general circuit or in a power-system circuit, is usually tackled in one of two ways : circuit configuration (i.e series and/or parallel) or nonlinearities (i.e saturation and hysteresis of transformers). A fundamental factor to the occurence of ferroresonance is the nonlinear magnetizing characteristic of the transformer and the capacitive coupling.
In this case a 250 kVA, 20/0.4 kV transformer is used. This transformer is represented by the hysteresis transformer model. The hysteresis element has been used as the magnetization branch of the one-phase transformer model. A 200 m cable is used for the study. This cable is modelled by a PI-section. The short circuit power of the source is about 150 MVA.
In order to reduce overvoltages caused by ferroresonance, surge arresters are installed. Two questions have emerged : will the arresters mitigate ferroresonance, and will they fail during ferroresonance ? Simulations in different transient regimes can be carried out in order to determine the maximal current, overvoltages (voltage at the end of the cable for instance), energy absorbed by the arresters

Tag(s): Protection

Author: AdminEMTP-RV
Type: Document
Downloaded: 912 times
Date: 2012-06-18

Look what happens without EMTP-RV

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This is a nice video about the switching of a shunt reactor (most probably 500 kV) with a Circuit-Switcher.
>A circuit-switcher is a SF6 load-break swith with no fault current breaking cap... see moreability. The load current, in this case around 150 A, is normally interrupted first by the 2 interrupters and then the disconnect will open to isolate the reactor.
What happened in this video:
1 - During the opening, an external flashover occurs on one of the chamber most probably because of the contamination;
2 - The other chamber can not withstand the whole voltage and reignites internally;
3 - The external flashover vanishes because an arc is established inside;
4 - The disconnect opens on the full load current;
5 - The arc burns freely in the air for some 10 seconds until it is self-extinguished or eliminated by a circuit-breaker operation.

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