Technical Benefits Of Controlled Switching

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1.5.3.1. Benefits of Controlled Switching

Controlled switching benefits include circuit breaker operation, enhancements, switching transient reduction, equipment maintenance cost, equipment life extension, and power quality improvement. There are two types of benefits of using controlled switching which divided into technical and economical. The technical benefits of controlled switching are as follows:

- Improvement of Power quality.
- Reduction of circuit breaker contact burn.
- Avoiding occurrence of nuisance relay operations.
- Increased life span of power system equipment.
- Reducing risk of equipment failures.
- Increasing of interrupter maintenance intervals. - Controlled point-on-wave switching is a very …show more content…

- A second ground fault on another phase will result in a phase-phase short circuit causing extensive damage.

1.8. Effect of Internal Wining Fault

On the other hand, the phenomenon of internal winding fault which produces internally has deep effect on the lifetime of a transformer [58]. This kind of faults will lead to generated heat in the faulted region of the winding. Therefore, this generated heat will cause the fault to step rapidly to more critical forms, such as phase-to-phase and phase-to-ground faults [59] [60]. The internal short circuit currents of transformer may be larger than its terminal short circuit currents [61]. These faults will result in downtime and financial losses.

There are many reasons that lead to internal winding faults such as [62]:

a) Failure of winding due to short circuits (turn-turn faults and open winding) [63] [64].

b) Aging of the insulation material due to temperature, especially points of local overheating is quickened by the presence of moisture and oxygen [65].

c) Failure of on-load tap changer [63]. d) Abnormal operating conditions (overloading, overvoltage and

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