Professional Documents
Culture Documents
1
Assume for this problem that the 69 kV system (Figure given below) is open and make the
following calculation:
A. Calculate the fault current in the three phases for a solid phase-Ato-ground fault on the
kV terminals.
MVA MW
pu 1
SB 50MVA
VBH 69kV
IBH
SB
IBL
3 VBH
VBL 13.8kV
SB
3 VBL
XS1 .12pu
XS2 .12pu
XT1 .08pu
XT2 .08pu
XT0 .08pu
X1 XS1 XT1
X2 X1
X0 XT0
a 1 e
1 1 1
2
A012 1 a a
2
1 a a
j 120deg
VF
I0_69
j X1 X2 X0
I1_69 I0_69
VF 1pu
I2_69 I0_69
I0_69
2_69
6.25
0 pu
IABC_69_pu
6.25i
IABC_69_pu 0 pu
0
90
arg IABC_69_pu 18.435 deg
18.435
2614.811i
A
IABC_69
0
IABC_69
90
arg IABC_69 18.435 deg
18.435
2614.811
0 A pu
V1_69 1 j X1 I1_69
V2_69 0 j X2 I2_69
V0_69
2_69
0.25 0.866i
VABC_69_pu 0.901 pu
0.901
106.102
17.25 59.756i
VABC_69 62.196 kV
62.196
106.102
C. For this 69 kV ground fault, determine the currents flowing in the13.8 kV system.
Note: Zero sequence current gets cancelled of since the transformer blocks zero sequence current,
both positive and negative sequence currents have phase shifts due to -Y transformer
Therefore
I1_13.8 I1_69 e
j 30deg
I2_13.8 I2_69 e
j 30deg
I0_13.8 0
2_13.8
IABC_13.8_pu
3.608i
IABC_13.8_pu 0 pu
3.608i
90
arg IABC_13.8_pu 97.125 deg
90
3.608
0 pu
3.608
7548.309i
A
IABC_13.8
0
7548.309i
7548.309
90
0 A pu
arg IABC_13.8 97.125 deg
7548.309
90
D. What are the voltage s for the three phase s at the 1 3.8 kV transformer terminal s for th
69 kV fault?
IABC_13.8
V0_13.8 0
V0_13.8
2_13.8
VABC_13.8_pu
0.567
1 pu
0.869
VABC_13.8
39.122
69 kV
59.934
VABC_13.8_pu
0.5 0.866i pu
0.067 0.866i
0
arg VABC_13.8_pu 120 deg
94.423
39.122
4.622 59.756i
0
arg VABC_13.8 120 deg
94.423