Should Line protection trip the connected shunt reactor
Should Line protection trip the connected shunt reactor
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Hi everyone,
i have HV cable with shunt reactor connected through circuit breaker.
in case of line protection operation, should i trip the shunt reactor or leave it connected?
thank you,
i have HV cable with shunt reactor connected through circuit breaker.
in case of line protection operation, should i trip the shunt reactor or leave it connected?
thank you,






RE: Should Line protection trip the connected shunt reactor
What are the effects if you do, or don't?
RE: Should Line protection trip the connected shunt reactor
RE: Should Line protection trip the connected shunt reactor
so, which one and why? any body can explain
RE: Should Line protection trip the connected shunt reactor
David Castor
www.cvoes.com
RE: Should Line protection trip the connected shunt reactor
In case of EHV OHLs, the reactor is directly connected to the OHL at the receiving end (without its own circuit breaker)substation and switched along with the OHL.
Thus, there is no reason why you should be switching of the reactor CB when feeder protection operates. Let the reactor remains with the disconnected cable (I think that is the right thing to do, treat the reactor and cable as one package).
RE: Should Line protection trip the connected shunt reactor
raghun: the scheme that i have made is to trip the reactor breaker anytime the line protection operated as per the customer requirement.
thank you
RE: Should Line protection trip the connected shunt reactor
Could the underground cable be operated with the shunt reactor switched out or there's a big voltage issue?
Is there any automation to switch in/out the shunt reactor for different voltage values? Is the shunt reactor also used to keep any generation linked to the busbar in lagging operation?
Why would you choose to link the shunt reactor directly to the underground cable and not to the busbar?
From an operational/maintenance/life expectancy viewpoint I wouldn't play too much with CBs on reactive compensation equipments (shunt reactors, mechanically switched capacitors etc) there's a pretty tough life for a CB to play with pure reactive currents. In some power systems there are special procedures to avoid too many operations with CBs related to reactive compensation equipments.
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