Relay Coordination Preliminary Report V1

Review of Relay Coordination Analysis Report

We have been requested to evaluate the RELAY COORDINATION ANALYSIS REPORTS

Submitted by third party for Arcapita Headquarters Project, located in Manama, Bahrain.

Details of Project

Project: Arcapita Headquarters.

Location: Manama, Bahrain.
System: LV System (11/0.4kV).

Documents made available for Evaluation:

Relay and CB setting calculations

RC study for 11 kV EDD panel up to 0.415 main Panel (LVP-B-1) DB Loads
Reference Document:

Client Specifications VII-300.070

Client Specifications y71.1010

Requirement:

The reference document indicates what is expected out of the Report.

Briefly it says the Contractor to conduct the electrical Coordination study for the Installed Electrical
Distribution system at Arcapita Headquarters and submit the Report

It also gives details of the study to be made as follows

 Conduct complete protection grading and setting calculation of the complete Electrical
Distribution System
 Carry out Short circuit calculations for the distribution system as indicated on the drawings
 Fault calculations and protective device study to be conducted with a suitable computer
programme
 To carry out the protective device co-ordination study including the following:
Time-current co-ordination curves graphically indicating the proposed co-ordination for the system on log-log
graph transparencies.
Observations from the Report

We have studied the report documents submitted and our Observations are as under:

1) Computer programme, Electrical design software ETAP version 7 has been used and TCC curves
have been generated.
2) Setting details for relays and Air circuit breakers, MCCBs have been given.
3) There is no Short Circuit Current Report and calculations for different bus bars.
4) The settings for relays and Circuit breakers are not coordinated properly there are mix up. The
curves generated based on the setting for Transformer primary side relay and LV side
ACB.Attached TCC will show you the mix up.
5) In rush current of the Transformer has not been taken into account while setting the
Transformer incomer relay.
6) Relay settings recommended are beyond the range of the relay. The SEPAM relay TMS setting
range is only 0.1 to 12.5 where as the settings proposed are 0.04 and 0.05
7) High set I> current and timing not recommended for the SEPAM Relays.
8) There should be time discrimination of minimum 150 mill seconds between 11 kV Incoming
Relay P OC1 and EDD P OC1relay.
9) All the outgoing MCCBs are to be set based on cable rating and not based on Load.
10) There is no Single Line diagram pertaining to the Electrical Distribution System included in the
Report
11) Generators have to be taken into account for instantaneous current setting of MCCBs as the
fault current generated by the Generators will be less compared to the utility. Therefore Short-
circuit currents have to be arrived at for both utility feeding and generator feeding. Lowest
between the two short circuit currents to be considered for setting.
12) Based on the short-circuit report the device(MCCB) short circuit rating have to be checked and
certified for interruption rating of MCCBs , ACBs and Busbars
13) Short circuit rating of NS630 MCCB is indicated as 94.5 kA, this has to be checked as the
technical data sheet for NS630 does not indicate this.
14) Similarly the short circuit rating indicated for NS160 MCCB to be checked and corrected.
15) The Interruption rating of 2500 A mps ACB also to be checked.
16) There is no over current setting proposed for the 2500 Amps ACBs
17) Fault Level at the Point of supply is taken as 350 MVA.This should be confirmed by the utility
provider. One has to consider both max fault level and minimum fault level at the point of
supply and calculate the maximum fault current and minimum fault current.
18) Based on the Maximum fault current interrupting currents of various devices should be
verified.
19) Based on the minimum fault current the setting of devices to be set.
Recommendations:

The report is not complete and has certain deficiencies as enumerated above. It is, therefore, our
recommendations to do fresh study and submit fresh report with setting details for relays, ACBs and
MCCBs
1000

ACB
Relay Relay
PU = 2612
100
10
Time in Seconds

Transformer
A 1500.0 KVA
Transformer
GRID
1

50 Incomer Transformer
51 DLA: 600

TR
DLA: 78.73
1500 kVA
Relay
Inrush
.1

(Incomer Transformer)
505180 SCA @ 400V

505175 SCA @ 400V

33693 SCA @ 400V

33693 SCA @ 400V

LT ACB
DLA: 2100
Size: NW H1 LSI
(LT ACB)
(TR)

(TR)
.01

.5 1 10 100 1000 10000

Current in Amperes X 100
400 Volt Phase Time-Current Characteristic Curves 07-02-2010
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