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    When It Really Counts: Ground Fault Neutralizer

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    The document discusses the Ground Fault Neutralizer, a novel protection scheme that cancels out fault currents through injection of an anti-phase current into the neutral, allowing faults to be handled without tripping the feeder or causing outages. It works within resonance grounding networks and can compensate for both transient and sustained single-phase ground faults on overhead lines and underground cables. Cost-benefit studies indicate it provides more efficient supply quality when combined with resonance grounding. The Ground Fault Neutralizer connects to the neutral of a power transformer and includes components for residual current compensation, arc suppression, and fault detection capabilities.

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    The document discusses the Ground Fault Neutralizer, a novel protection scheme that cancels out fault currents through injection of an anti-phase current into the neutral, allowing faults to be handled without tripping the feeder or causing outages. It works within resonance grounding networks and can compensate for both transient and sustained single-phase ground faults on overhead lines and underground cables. Cost-benefit studies indicate it provides more efficient supply quality when combined with resonance grounding. The Ground Fault Neutralizer connects to the neutral of a power transformer and includes components for residual current compensation, arc suppression, and fault detection capabilities.

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    The document discusses the Ground Fault Neutralizer, a novel protection scheme that cancels out fault currents through injection of an anti-phase current into the neutral, allowing faults to be handled without tripping the feeder or causing outages. It works within resonance grounding networks and can compensate for both transient and sustained single-phase ground faults on overhead lines and underground cables. Cost-benefit studies indicate it provides more efficient supply quality when combined with resonance grounding. The Ground Fault Neutralizer connects to the neutral of a power transformer and includes components for residual current compensation, arc suppression, and fault detection capabilities.

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    When It Really Counts: Ground Fault Neutralizer

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    The document discusses the Ground Fault Neutralizer, a novel protection scheme that cancels out fault currents through injection of an anti-phase current into the neutral, allowing faults to be handled without tripping the feeder or causing outages. It works within resonance grounding networks and can compensate for both transient and sustained single-phase ground faults on overhead lines and underground cables. Cost-benefit studies indicate it provides more efficient supply quality when combined with resonance grounding. The Ground Fault Neutralizer connects to the neutral of a power transformer and includes components for residual current compensation, arc suppression, and fault detection capabilities.

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    Ground Fault Neutralizer

    When it really counts

    Smart Grid protection for cable- and overhead lines

    Ultra fast

    No feeder tripping
    The RCC Ground Fault Neutralizer - a novel Smart Grid Protection

    Introduction The RCC Ground Fault Neutralizer, developed by Swedish Neutral, is a novel
    protection scheme for fast earth fault protection in medium and high voltage networks. Instead of tripping
    the faulty feeder, the Ground Fault Neutralizer cancels out the fault current by injection of an anti-phase
    current into the neutral. This interception is very fast and has no impact on the convey of payload over
    the faulty feeder – single phase-to-ground faults can be handled without customer outage.

    Resonance Grounding The Ground Fault Neutralizer works in resonant grounded networks.
    Resonance grounding by Petersen coils has been used in Scandinavian and other European countries like
    Germany, Switzerland etc for some eighty years. The excellent properties of this grounding concept are
    mirrored by very low outage rates. Recently also EdF in France and ENEL in Italy have introduced
    resonance grounding as their standard grounding concept for medium voltage grids. First reports
    show a substantial improvement in power supply quality.

    Resonance grounding is mainly used in overhead networks were most of the faults are single phase-to-
    ground and often of transient nature. The Petersen coil chokes the fault current below the level of self-
    extinction (< 35A). By this action all transient faults can be cleared without feeder tripping. However
    sustained faults on overhead lines and cable faults so far could not be cleared. Instead it was necessary
    to trip the feeder, in order to minimize the risk for fire and personal hazards due to the remaining fault
    current.

    Ground Fault Neutralizer The RCC Ground Fault Neutralizer now provides fast and complete
    compensation of all remaining earth-fault currents – both fundamental and harmonics. RCC stands for
    Residual Current Compensation. Utilising modern computer and power electronics, fault current and
    voltage injection are cancelled out completely. This is beneficial especially in industry- and urban cable
    grids were almost all faults start single phase-to-ground (cable screen). If not properly compensated, a
    re-striking cable fault quickly develops into a multi-phase or cross-country fault with subsequent long
    term outages.

    Also with respect to personal safety and fire prevention the Ground Fault Neutralizer offers premium
    protection. A fault interception in less than three cycles in praxis can never be reached by traditional
    protection schemes working on breakers.

    Cost-Benefit Cost-benefit studies indicate resonance grounding combined with residual current
    compensation to be one of the most cost efficient supply quality investments. Outage-rates will drop
    substantially. The non-tripping fault handling also allow for full life cycle usage of grid assets,
    without jeopardizing power supply quality.

    Implementation The Ground Fault Neutralizer is connected to the neutral of the supplying power
    transformer (Y-winding) or a separate grounding transformer (Z-winding). A complete GFN-system is
    composed of an arc suppression coil, a cabinet for power electronics and the GFN control cabinet. Beside
    the controls for the residual current compensation the GFN also provides automatic retuning for the arc
    suppression coil and a new twin scheme fault locating with superior detection capabilities. Distance-to-
    fault information can easily be obtained by feeder looping.

    References Swedish Neutral has experiences from previous conversions to resonance grounding
    in Australia, New Zealand and Brazil. To start with, we can offer you a dedicated feasibility study for
    your grid.

    Swedish Neutral AB Västra Rydsvägen 122 196 31 Stockholm-Kungsängen


    Tel: +46 8 581 713 44 Fax: +46 8 581 759 52 Email: [email protected] www.swedishneutral.se

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