Distance protection & Cable feeders
Distance protection & Cable feeders
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Distance protection and Pilot wire differential protection are two options available as primary protection for HV power cable feeders. Of the two, only Pilot wire differential protection is employed widely for the cable feeders and the distance protection is popular for over head lines.
Any reasons.
Thanks in anticipation.
Any reasons.
Thanks in anticipation.






RE: Distance protection & Cable feeders
It seems like it’s a matter of tradeoffs. Shielded cables tend to be shorter, where comm-channel distances are in favor, but where impedances are low—making distance relaying more difficult to apply.
Overhead spans are longer, and line impedances comparatively higher—making distance relaying easier to configure and more readily differentiate in-zone versus out-of-zone conditions.
RE: Distance protection & Cable feeders
Some times you come across a 2km long OHL having distance protection but a 10km long is provided with pilot wire differential protection.
RE: Distance protection & Cable feeders
RE: Distance protection & Cable feeders
So a unit protection scheme (Current Differential) is preferred in such cases.
RE: Distance protection & Cable feeders
Thanks. You have raised an interesting point. Could you please elaborate more as to how over reaching occurs (I didn't grasp completely).
Thanks in advance.
RE: Distance protection & Cable feeders
1. On a radial cable feeder with intermediate loads, pilot relaying provides better selectivity than distance relaying.
2. Some critical loads require high speed tripping which may be beyond the capability of distance relays.
3. For short cables, the ohms being measured by the distance relays would be of the same order of magnitude as the ohmic errors of the measurement, making distance protection impractical.
RE: Distance protection & Cable feeders
RE: Distance protection & Cable feeders
Distance relays are often set to protect about 80% of the transmission length only.
A three terminal transmission line is also possible to protect by differential relays.
RE: Distance protection & Cable feeders
Since the comparison is between V-IZ and Vpol, this leads to
expansion of the mho characteristic along the resistive axis for high SIR's.
RE: Distance protection & Cable feeders
It depends on the S.I.R. as Akhrinaam pointed out. The best reference for S.I.R. and application of Distance protection is IEEE C37.113-1999-IEEE Guide for Protective Relay Application to Transmission Lines. Everything is explained there.
Regards!
Regards!
RE: Distance protection & Cable feeders
1. IEEE Std 242-2001 Buff Book
4.4.1 Distance relay (Device 21)
4.4.15 Differential and pilot wire relays (Device 87)
RE: Distance protection & Cable feeders
RE: Distance protection & Cable feeders
May be you treated this thread as closed. But I came across simplified approach to this in Warrington's book, pp no 419, art 15.9 recently. I cannot attach the scanned file since there is no possibility of such a thing in the forum. If only I get your email address!
I have done the detail engineering for atleast 3 projects (230kV and 380kV OHLs!) with 87L as Main1 Protection and 21+67N as Main2 Protection and cannot agree more with the aforementioned reference.
Best regards
RE: Distance protection & Cable feeders
RE: Distance protection & Cable feeders
For instance, a fault just out of the cable will have have a different earth return path (ground plus maybe some in sheath, depending on how sheath is earthed). A fault on the cable may or may not have a return path on the sheath, depending on the nature of the fault. Three different earth fault currents for a fault which could be just at the end of the cable or just beyond the end of the cable, ie at a single distance.
If I've got it wrong, somebody please put me right - you'll make me much happier!
Bung
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