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    NEGATIVE PHASE SEQUENCE RELAY - Marine Inbox

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    Negative sequence relays are used to protect generators and motors from unbalanced currents caused by phase-to-phase shorts or other faults. The relay operates on the principle that negative sequence currents will flow through impedances connected in a bridge formation and cause a relay to pick up, while positive sequence currents will cancel out. This protects equipment from overheating due to negative sequence components in the current.

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    Negative sequence relays are used to protect generators and motors from unbalanced currents caused by phase-to-phase shorts or other faults. The relay operates on the principle that negative sequence currents will flow through impedances connected in a bridge formation and cause a relay to pick up, while positive sequence currents will cancel out. This protects equipment from overheating due to negative sequence components in the current.

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    Negative sequence relays are used to protect generators and motors from unbalanced currents caused by phase-to-phase shorts or other faults. The relay operates on the principle that negative sequence currents will flow through impedances connected in a bridge formation and cause a relay to pick up, while positive sequence currents will cancel out. This protects equipment from overheating due to negative sequence components in the current.

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    NEGATIVE PHASE SEQUENCE RELAY - Marine Inbox

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    Negative sequence relays are used to protect generators and motors from unbalanced currents caused by phase-to-phase shorts or other faults. The relay operates on the principle that negative sequence currents will flow through impedances connected in a bridge formation and cause a relay to pick up, while positive sequence currents will cancel out. This protects equipment from overheating due to negative sequence components in the current.

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    9/23/22, 9:05 AM NEGATIVE PHASE SEQUENCE RELAY | Marine Inbox

    NEGATIVE PHASE SEQUENCE RELAY


    By minbox - April 17, 2020

    Negative Sequence Relay:

    Negative sequence relay is used to protect the alternator or generator from the unbalance loading
    & negative sequence component. The negative sequence current flows through the generator
    winding due to phase to phase short circuit. The negative sequence currents cause the
    overheating of the generator, alternator, motor, transformer’s winding. Negative sequence relays
    are normally utilized to give protection to the generators & motors against the unbalanced
    currents.

    Negative Sequence Relay Operation:

    What is negative sequence. Negative sequence is a balanced 3-phase system with the opposite
    phase sequence as the original sequence which means the set of the three pharos are equal in
    magnitude, spaced 120° apart from each other & having the phase sequence opposite to that of
    the original pharos.

    Under the balanced condition, the generator gives equal currents in all the 3-phase either star
    connected or delta connected loads. Here the vector sum of the negative sequence current is 0,
    hence net unbalance current is 0 here, The unbalance may occur due to the circuit breaker
    operation, circuit breaker failures or system faults. Hence the negative sequence current starts
    flowing through the stator winding, which creates additional flux in the air gap which rotates in the
    opposite direction to that of the rotor synchronous speed. This flux induces currents in the rotor

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    body, retaining rings at twice the line frequency. Due to this, the rotor body temperature starts
    increasing. But if the magnitude of these negative sequence current is high, then this opposite
    direction potentially affects the normal operating direction of turbine. It leads to significant
    damage to the generator set.

    Figure shows the scheme used for the negative phase sequence relay. A network consisting of 4
    impedances Z1, Z2, Z3 & Z4 of equal magnitude connected in a bridge formation is energized
    from three CTs. A single pole relay having an inverse-time characteristic is connected across the
    circuit, as shown in the figure. Z1 & Z3 are non- inductive resistors while Z2 & Z4 are composed
    of both resistance & inductance. The values of Z2 & Z4 are so regulated that currents flowing
    through them lag behind those in impedances Z3 & Z1 by 60°. The relay is assumed to have
    negligible impedance. The current from phase R at junction A is equally divided into two branches
    as I1 & I4 but I4 will lag behind I1 by 60°.

    From Figure

    I1 = I4 = IR/√3 … I2R = I21 + I24 + 2I1 I4 cos 60°

    Similarly the current from phase B divide at junction C into two equal components I3 and I2; I2
    lagging behind I3 by 60°.

    I2 = I3 = IB/√3

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    Note that I1 leads IR by 30° while I4 lags behind IR by 30°. Similarly I2 lags behind IB by 30°,
    whereas I3 leads IB by 30°.

    The current through relay operating coil at junction B will be equal to pharos sum of I1, I2 and IY.

    i.e. IRelay = I1 + I2 + IY

    = IR/√3 leading IR by 30° + IB/√3 lagging behind IB by 30° + IY

    Flow of + ve Sequence Currents:

    Fig. represents the pharos diagram when the load is balanced or when there is no negative
    sequence current. Since the current through the relay is I1 + I2 + IY = 0 because I1 + I2 = – IY

    So the relay remains inoperative for the balanced system.

    minbox

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