Protection of complicated bus arrangements using centralized low impedance intelligent electronic device

In this paper, protection of a complicated bus arrangement with dual bus coupler and bus sectionalizer using low impedance differential protection applicable for very high voltages like 220kV and 400kV is discussed. In many power generation stations, several operational procedures are implemented to utilize the transfer bus as main bus and to facilitate maintenance of circuit breakers and current transformers (in each section) without shutting down the bay(s). Owing to this fact, the complications in operational philosophy have thrown challenges for the bus bar protection implementation. Many bus topologies allow any one of the main busses available in the station to be used as an auxiliary bus. In such system, pre-defined precautions and procedures are made as guidelines, which are…