FUNCTION CHARACTERISTICS
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NA30 - Manual - 04 - 2022
Second Harmonic Restraint - 2ndh-REST
Preface
When a power transformer is energized, as well know an inrush current flow in the side that have
been energized with an amount and duration that depend by many factors which:
• by the instantaneous value of the supply voltage at the time where the transformer is energized
• by the transformer design, magnetization characteristic and size
• by the residual flux
The maximum amount of the inrush current is produced by energizing the transformer at the zero
point of the voltage wave, when it increase or decrease with the residual flux respectively positive
or negative. Moreover the ratio between the maximum amount of the inrush current and the nominal
current of the transformer decrease if the size of transformer increase, whereas the duration of the
inrush current increase with the size of transformer.
Some types of instantaneous protections as overcurrent, residually connected ground fault and dif-
ferentials, are affected by this inrush current and their unwanted tripping can occur on transformer
energizing.
The second harmonic restraint is available to restraint any selected threshold:
• Thermal image - 49
• Phase overcurrent - 50/51
• Residual overcurrent - 50N/51N
Moreover one or more output contacts may be allocated to the 2NDH-REST function in order to block
any external protection relays where second harmonic restraint is not available.
Operation and settings
Each second harmonic component of phase currents (I
L1-2nd
, I
L2-2nd
, I
L3-2nd
) is compared with the
I
2ndh>
adjustable threshold.
When one or more currents overcome the setting threshold a start is issued.
The start may be employed to block-off one or more elements or to block-off external protections by
means output relays (this can be usefully used in order to restraint external protection relays where
second harmonic restraint is not available).
For the purpose to keep in block state the selected elements, an adjustable t
2ndh>RES
reset delay is
provided.
The setting of I2ndh> and t2ndh>RES
parameters are available inside the
Set\Profile A(B)\Second Harmonic Restraint menus.
The second harmonic element may be enabled or disabled; to enable it, the I2ndh> Enable param-
eter must be set to ON inside the Set\Profile A(B)\Second Harmonic Restraint menus.
All the parameters can be set separately for Profile A and Profile B.
The output may be assigned to the selected I2ndh>-ST-K output relays inside the
Set\Profile A(B)\Second Harmonic Restraint submenu; the same for addressing the LED indicators
(I2ndh>-ST-L).
When output relays are programmed for second harmonic element output, the t
TR
time delays must
reset to zero; the operation mode must be set with self reset (No-latched inside Set\Relays sub-
menu) and the Logic parameters (Energized/De-energized) must be programmed in the same way
of the related binary input connected with-it.
2NDH-REST-diagram.ai
I
L1-nd
Logic diagram concerning the second harmonic restraint function - 2NDH/REST
t
2ndh>RES
T0
≥1
t
2ndh>RES
Start I2ndh>
ON≡Enable
I2ndh> Enable
&
I2ndh>ST-K
I2ndh>ST-L
I
2ndh>
I
L1-nd
≥
I
2ndh>
I
L2-nd
I
L2-nd
≥
I
2ndh>
I
L3-nd
I
L3-nd
≥
I
2ndh>
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