Systems & Electronics

ZFP8N – Out-of-step protection relay

ection relay ZFP8N belongs to SIGMA-N digital protection fine and it performs the function of out-of-step protection far generators.

 

FUNCTIONS ANSI
Out-of-step protection relay

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The operation of the ZFP8N protection relay is based on the impedance measurement method.

The impedance vector is computed from the positive sequence components of the measured voltages and currents; the protection relay verifies the absence of negative sequence components of the currents.

The evolution of the measured impedance vector is checked on the X-R diagram with the polygonal out-of-step characteristic to identify power swing occurrences.

When an out-of-step condition occurs, a timer is started and a counter is increased; during the programmed time delay the protection relay will verify the number of out-of-step occurrences and will increase the counter if any.

The protection relay will trip if the counter reaches the programmed maximum number of allowed out-of-step occurrences in the lime delay.