In general i would say that if a ground foult occurs in the secundary of the transformer the ground protection won't "see" the zero sequence component of the fault. A severe fault in the secondary will probably motivate de fuse in the primary of the transformer to blow/trip.
Tale a look at this site:
http://www.engineering.schneider-electric.se/Attachments/ed/cat/catalog_easergy_flite_110_sa_datasheet.pdf.pdf
schneider flite's are easy to mount (live) and are reliable. They work either by the effect of magnetic or electric field so i think that would work in your case.
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