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What is SOTF Protection? Topics

Power System
Power System Protection
Electrical Machines
SOTF Protection stands for Switch On to Fault. This DC Machine
protection is provided for high speed clearance of detected Measurement and
fault immediately after Manual Closure of Circuit Breaker. Let Instrumentation
us suppose that a fault is existing and we gave a closing AC Circuit
command to Breaker, then in that case SOTF protection will Digital Electronics
immediately trip the Breaker. Electrical Drives
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SOTF Protection is helpful in the sense that while taking
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maintenance on a Line, it may happen so that Earth Switch of
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a particular Circuit Breaker is close. In that case if we give
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closing command to the Circuit Breaker, it will immediately
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bypassing all the required logics, so in that case SOTF will
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come into picture. Suppose while maintenance Earthing Rod
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competition of maintenance the Earth Rod is still connected
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to that section. In such case there is nothing or no logic to
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prevent closing of Breaker and as soon as one closes the
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Circuit Breaker, it will trip on SOTF.

SOTF Protection gets enabled whenever all the three poles of

a Circuit Breaker is open for more than a settable time say
110s (This time can be changed and configured as per the
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SOTF is enabled in two cases. They are mentioned below.

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Case1: If no Closing command to the Breaker is Present. inbox.

When all the three poles of Circuit Breaker is open for more
than a particular time say 110 s, as soon as we give a closing Your Email Please
command to the Circuit Breaker, the SOTF is enabled for 500
ms and then gets reset.
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During this SOTF time frame of 500 ms, individual distance

protection can be enabled or disabled. When a particular
distance zone say Zone-2 is enabled, Zone-2 will actuate
immediately without waiting for Zone-2 time delay if there
exists any fault in this zone.

How SOTF Relay Senses a Fault?

Basically there are two elements in relay providing SOTF

feature. They are Voltage Level Detector and Current Level
Detector. The purpose of Voltage Level Detector is to ensure
Dead Pole situation and Current Level Detector ensures that
a fault occurred i.e. Current Level Detector is used for
detection of fault. Therefore SOTF Relay element must have
two settings, one for Voltage Level Detector and another for
Current Level Detector. Typical setting for both the elements
are as follows:

Vph < 75% VN

 Iph > 5% IN

Here VNand IN are Nominal Voltage and Nominal Current

respectively. Thus if the phase voltages are normal and if
phase current increases from the setting then SOFT will
sense it a fault and will issue three phase trip command
provided all other conditions as mentioned in case1 and
case2 for SOTF are met.

 September 21, 2016  admin  Power System Protection  3 Comments

 SOTF Protection,  Transmission Line

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— Priyanka

says:
March 2, 2018 at 9:19 pm
 Is it measure the impedance variation (Vph/Iph)?

— siva

says:
June 5, 2018 at 8:53 am

really good answer i did practically as your written thank you so

much ur gaudiness

— admin

says:
June 5, 2018 at 9:23 am

That really sounds great! Thank you very much Siva.

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