Busbar arrangement of substation

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Types of Busbar Arrangement
 Single bus
 Single busbar system with sectionalisation
 Main and transfer busbar
 Double bus bar with double breaker
 One and half breaker busbar
 Ring busbar

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 Single Bus arrangement

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 Single Bus arrangement System
Advantage Disadvantage Remarks

1. Low cost 1. Fault of bus or any 1. Used for

circuit breaker results in
shut-down of entire
substation
2. Simple to Operate 2. Difficult to do any
maintenance
distribution
substations upto 33kV
2. Not used for large
substations.

3. Simple Protection 3. Bus cannot be extended 3. Sectionalizing

without completely de- increases flexibility
energizing substations
4. Can be used only where
loads can be interrupted or
have other supply
arrangements.

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 Main & Transfer Bus

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 Main & transfer busbar system
Advantage Disadvantage Remarks

1. Low initial & ultimate 1. Requires one extra 1. Used for 110kV
cost breaker coupler substations where cost
of duplicate bus bar
system is not justified
2. Any breaker can be 2. Switching is
taken out of service for somewhat complex
maintenance. when maintaining a
breaker
3. Potential devices may 3. Fault of bus or any
be used on the main bus circuit breaker results in
shutdown of entire
substation.

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 Double Busbar with Double breaker

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 Double Bus Bar Double Breaker system

Advantage Disadvantage Remarks

1. Each has two 1. Most expensive 1. Not used for usual
associated breakers EHV substations due to
high cost.
2. Has flexibility in 2. Would lose half of 2. Used only for very
permitting feeder the circuits for breaker important, high power,
circuits to be connected fault if circuits are not EHV substations.
to any bus connected to both the
3. Any breaker can be buses.
taken out of service for
maintenance.
4. High reliability

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 One & half breaker scheme

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 One & half breaker scheme
Advantage Disadvantage Remarks
1. Flexible operation for breaker 1. One and half 1. Used for 400kV
maintenance breakers per circuit, & 220kV
hence higher cost substations.
2. Any breaker can be removed 2. Protection and 2. Preferred.
from maintenance without auto-reclosing more
interruption of load. complex since
3. Requires 1 1/2 breaker per middle breaker must
feeder. be responsive to
both associated
circuits.
4. Each circuit fed by two
breakers.
5. All switching by breaker.
6. Selective tripping

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 Ring Bus

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 Mesh (Ring) busbar system
Advantage Disadvantage Remarks

1. Busbars gave 1. If fault occurs during bus 1. Most widely

some operational maintenance, ring gets separated used for very
flexibility into two sections. large power
2.Auto-reclosing and protection stations having
complex. large no. of
incoming and
3. Requires VT’s on all circuits outgoing lines
because there is no definite voltage and high power
reference point. transfer.
These VT’s may be required in all
cases for synchronizing live line or
voltage indication
4. Breaker failure during fault on one
circuit causes loss of additional
circuit because of breaker failure.

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Given:-
 A generating station with 14 generator

Design two alternative way of busbar arrangement of

the station
Solution
I assume each generator generates 300MW with
voltage 11kv and power factor 0.9
 14x300=4200MW
Auxiliary service 10%=420MW=14x30MW

Base on this it is done as shown below

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Option 1

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Option 2

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 Auxiliary Service

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