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Protection System Management

The document discusses recommendations for improving protection system management in utilities. It recommends establishing a protection application department, closely coordinating protection settings with system studies, periodically reviewing settings, simulating protection schemes, properly adopting and storing settings, performing root cause analysis of major trips, and regularly auditing and training protection staff.

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Protection System Management

The document discusses recommendations for improving protection system management in utilities. It recommends establishing a protection application department, closely coordinating protection settings with system studies, periodically reviewing settings, simulating protection schemes, properly adopting and storing settings, performing root cause analysis of major trips, and regularly auditing and training protection staff.

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PROTECTION SYSTEM MANAGEMENT:

During the discussions and interactions with the various stake holders of the
protection system, it was strongly felt by the Protection Sub-committee
members that in addition to technical issues related to protection, the
management issues related to protection system need to be addressed. In
order to comprehensively address the protection issues in the utilities,
following are the recommendations.
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1. ESTABLISHING PROTECTION APPLICATION DEPARTMENT:
1.1. It is recommended that each utility establishes a protection
application department with adequate manpower and skill set.
1.2. The protection system skill set is gained with experience, resolving
various practical problems, case studies, close interaction with the
relay manufactures and field engineers. Therefore it is proposed
that such people should be nurtured to have a long standing
career growth in the protection application department.
2. RELAY SETTING CALCULATIONS
2.1. The protection group should do periodic relay setting calculations
as and when necessitated by system configuration changes. A
relay setting approval system should be in place.
2.2. Relay setting calculations also need to be revisited whenever the
minor configuration or loading changes in the system due to
operational constraints. Feedback from the field/substations on
the performance of the relay settings should be collected and
settings should be reviewed and corrected if required.
Report of the Task Force on Power System Analysis Under Contingencies

3. COORDINATION WITH SYSTEM STUDY GROUP, SYSTEM


PLANNING GROUP AND OTHER STAKEHOLDERS
3.1. It is recommended that each utility has a strong system study
group with adequate manpower and skill set that can carry out
various system studies required for arriving at system related
settings in protection system in addition to others studies.
3.2. The protection application department should closely work in coordination

with the utility system study group, system planning


group, the system operation group.
3.3. Wherever applicable, it should also co-ordinate and work with all
power utilities to arrive at the proper relay setting calculations
taking the system as a whole.
3.4. The interface point relay setting calculations at CTU-STU, STUDISCOMS,

STU-GEN Companies, CTU-GEN Companies and


also generator backup relay setting calculations related to system
performance should be periodically reviewed and jointly
concurrence should be arrived. The approved relay settings
should be properly document.
3.5. Any un-resolved issues among the stakeholders should be taken
up with the RPC and resolved.
4. SIMULATION TESTING FOR CHECKING DEPENDABILITY AND
SECURITY OF PROTECTION SYSTEM FOR CRITICAL LINES AND
SERIES COMPENSATED LINES
4.1. Committee felt that even though Real Time Digital Simulation
(RTDS) and other simulation facilities are available in the country,
use of the same by the protection group is very minimum or nil.
4.2. It is recommended that protection system for critical lines, all
series compensated lines along with interconnected lines should
be simulated for intended operation under normal and abnormal
system conditions and tested for the dependability and security of
protection system. The RTDS facilities available in the country like
at CPRI, POWERGRID and other places should be made use of
for this purpose.
4.3. The network model should be periodically updated with the system
parameters, as and when network changes are incorporated.
5. ADOPTION OF RELAY SETTING AND FUNCTIONAL
VERIFICATION OF SETTING AT SITE
5.1. Protection application department shall ensure through field testing
group that the final relay settings are exactly adopted in the relays
at field.
5.2. There should be clear template for the setting adoption duly
authorized and approved by the field testing in charge.
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Report of the Task Force on Power System Analysis Under Contingencies

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5.3. No relay setting in the field shall be changed without proper
documentation and approval by the protection application
department.
5.4. Protection application department shall periodically verify the
implemented setting at site through an audit process.
6. STORAGE AND MANAGEMENT OF RELAY SETTINGS
6.1. The committee felt that with the application of numerical relays,
increased system size & volume of relay setting, associated data to
be handled is enormous. It is recommended that utilities shall
evolve proper storage and management mechanism (version
control) for relay settings.
6.2. Along with the relay setting data, IED configuration file should
also be stored and managed.
7. ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS OF MAJOR PROTECTION TRIPPING
(MULTIPLE ELEMENT OUTAGE) ALONGWITH CORRECTIVE &
IMPROVEMENT MEASURES
7.1. The routine tripping of transmission lines, transformers and
generating units are generally analysed by the field protection
personnel. For every tripping, a trip report along with associated
DR and event logger file shall be generated. However, for major
tripping in the system, it is recommended that the protection
application department shall perform the root cause analysis of the
event.
7.2. The root cause analysis shall address the cause of fault, any maloperation
or
non-operation
of
relays,
protection
scheme
etc.

7.3. The root cause analysis shall identify corrective and improvement
measures required in the relay setting, protection scheme or any
other changes to ensure the system security, reliability and
dependability of the protection system.
7.4. Protection application group shall keep proper records of
corrective and improvement actions taken.
8. PERFORMANCE INDICES: DEPENDABILITY & SECURITY OF
PROTECTION SYSTEM
8.1. The committee felt that key performance indices should be
calculated on yearly basis on the dependability and security of
protection system as brought out in CBIP manual.
9. PERIODIC PROTECTION AUDIT
9.1. Periodic audit of the protection system shall be ensured by the
protection application team.
Report of the Task Force on Power System Analysis Under Contingencies
9.2. The audit shall broadly cover the three important aspect of
protection system, namely the philosophy, the setting, the
healthiness of Fault Clearing System.
10. REGULAR TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION
10.1. The members of the protection application team shall undergo
regular training to enhance & update their skill sets.
10.2. The training modules shall consist of system studies, relaying
applications, testing & commissioning
10.3. Certification of protection system field engineer for the testing &
commissioning of relay, protection scheme is strongly
recommended.

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