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Calculation result from ETAP, LL & LLG fault is higer 3phase fault

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PAP

Electrical
Jul 7, 2002
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I've run ETAP program for isolated power system. The system consists of 3x6.5MW turbogenerator (10A NGR) supply 6.6kV motors and 2x 6.6/.4kV 3MVA DYN11 transformer (solid earth).
The calculation result surprise me and I would ask why this happen?
In which case that LL and LLG can go over 3 phase fault?
(I may go wrong with parameters of component.)

Thanks for help.
 
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This is typical behaviour close to the generators because the zero sequence impedance of the synchronous machines is low.
 
Scotty, wouldn't the 10A NGRs negate the low Z0 of the turbo-gens contributing to a SLG fault?
 
When looking at a line to line fault the addition of 10 Amps to ground has negligible effect.

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My mistake, I thought the original poster was also asking about SLG faults.
 
I wouldn't have thought a L-L fault could exceed a L-L-L fault. Neither have any zero sequence influence. As scotty said, the low zero sequence close to a generator can definitely result in L-L-G and L-G faults higher than L-L-L.
 
Correction to my post above. L-L can exceed L-L-L, but that is related to negative sequence impedance being lower than positive sequence impedance, which of course can occur with a generator.
 
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