Different Types of Electrical Transformer Protection Systems

Today we are going to discuss Types of Electrical Transformer which are the most costly protection system of the electrical system. As all we know transformers are generally used to step up and step down the voltage level.  Since transformer working under several voltage levels, it’s also require to have better protection in the transformers. There are the several type of transformer faults occurs and it can mainly divide into Internal faults and through faults.Internal fault of the transformers mainly happened due to the insulation breakdown of it.Insulation breakdown create short-circuit conditions inside the transformers. This will cause hazard situations so we need to special attention on this type of transformer fault.

Factors to Types of Electrical Transformer Protection

Transformer are use to protect on several kind of phenomena such as following.

Open Circuit faults

Short circuit faults

Over loadings

Surge lighting

Types of Electrical Transformer Protection Systems

Overcurrent protection of the transformers can done by using fuses , circuit breakers and relays. Protections systems are use as primary protection system of the transformers.

Differential Protection

Differential protection of the power transformer effect on the different current. This also should consider while apply a differential protection. The factors can also result in differential current in under balanced power conditions. Following are some of the situations which can occur.

Magnetic in rush current

Over excitation

Current Transformer saturation

Phase Displacement in Star Delta Winding

Primary and secondary different voltage levels.

Differential Relays

Differential relays are used to reduce the mention effects of transformers. The percentage characteristic of the differential relays are vary in the rage of 15% to 60%. in Addition to that the modern microprocessor and numeric relays and harmonic restraints can apply in to it.

Transformer testings

Open circuit tests

Short circuit test

Measurement of acoustic noise level

Magnetic balance test.

Measurement of zero phase sequence impedance test

Measurement of harmonic of the no load current.

Buchholz Relay Protection

Buchhols relay are one of the protection system which is really important in electrical power transformer. Normally there buchholz relay are gas actuated and its installed in oi. This protection equipment is used to immersed transformer for protection against all kind of faults.

Transformer Lighting Protection

In transformers following methods are used to protection against the lightning such as.

Earth Screen

Lightning Arrestors

Overhead Ground Wires

Following are the most commonly use transformer protection types which use in electrical transmission system.

Earth fault on transformer windings

Over fluctuating protection

overload protection

transformer feeder protection

over current protection

Directional protection of  parral transformer

Biased differential protection of two and three winding transformers.

In this article we have discuss  the basics of transformer protection systems such as Over current protection , Differential Protection , Differential Relays ,Buchholz Relay Protection and Transformer Lighting Protection. Hope that you have gain some good knowledge about it.