Redondancy of supply is often a must ; protection coordination is not easy to master : case of parallel MV/LV transformers.
This case is typical for hospital and even office building where service continuity constraint is high.In fact, parallel MV/LV transformers are used for two reasons:
- redundancy is mandatory for installation continuity of supply,
- constraints on physical size of the transformers.
To ensure the maximal level of continuity of supply a particular attention shall be attach to LV protection coordination at the transformer level.
Case of a short circuit in A
The expected protection operation is the following:
* CB3 and CB1 should operate to eliminate the short circuit current and CB2 should still closed.
This requires some specific constraints on CB1, CB2 and CB3 settings:
* these 3 protections shall operate with the same current setting,
* the solution consists in using chronometric cascading between CB3 and CB1/CB2.
The proposed solution consists in setting CB1 and CB2 short delay to an upper value than CB3 short delay.
In that case for the short circuit in A the operating sequence is:
* CB3 opening,
* CB1 opening.
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Case of short circuit in B
The expected protection operation is the following:
* only CB4 should operate.
The problem is that in some case the rating of CB4 may be greater or close to the rating of CB1 and CB2. Despite breaker selectivity table given by circuit breaker manufacturers gives no solution, breaker selectivity may be possible thanks to the fact that CB1 and CB2 see half of the short circuit current compared to CB4.
This is my proposal of designing a good protection coordination in this case of parallel MV/LV transformers
Christian Collombet
This is a system with two different Electric supply circuit with common load which is in CB4, in this case, one is the Normal source of power and the other in emergency power like Standby Generator.
If both are supplying the load in parallel operation, the system must be properly synchronize.
If CB3 is the tie breaker, and will operate only when CB! has no loss power, then CB3 must be designed with mechanical and electrical interlocking system to avoid motorization of the smaller power supply and for safety purposes.
Thank-you for your comments.
This is of course the case parallel transformers fed by a common MV power supply.
The purpose is here to define a way to set a reliable discrimination between CB1, CB2 and CB3 in case of fault in A in ordre to keep TR2 and its dowstream feeder under voltage.
I see. Thanks.
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coming back to your request can you be a little bit accurate, what are you looking for exactly ?
The above application for two different load from two different sources through 2 CBs( CB1+CB2 ) and another CBs that is called CB Coupler ( CB3 ) .
Each Tr. can feed the two loads through ( CB3 ) in case one of the transformer or its CB was failled . This application is call 2 out of 3
two transformers are coupled ,then why they are showing different loads