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Time To Saturation of CT

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Jairo Morales

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Hi All

I have the following Class PX CT and i want to calculate two things:
[ol 1]
[li]Validate whether the CT will saturate when a fault occurs[/li]
[li]Time of free-satarution or the time the CT takes to reach a saturation status[/li]
[/ol]

CT Characteristics:
IEC Class PX
Ratio: 1000/1 A
Vk: 500 V
Ie: 30 mA
Rct: 5.4 Ohm
Burden: 1 Ohm

Fault Level
Ik: 5.5 kA
X/R: 4.48

For the first point the are a lot of information in the forum about it i understand that i can know that using the folowing formula
Vk > (Ik / Ratio) * (Rct + Burden)

But i think I'm not takin into consideration DC component and X/R ratio and thats why I'm thinking about Time-To-Saturate. I've found a paper on internet but to be honest I don't quite understand it. Hope anyone in the forum could help me.

Thanks


 
 https://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=6d13699d-4b21-4895-ae9a-346c34636690&file=DETERMINATION_OF_THE_TIME-TO-SATURATION_OF_CURRENT.pdf
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