| Title |
Protection coordination between residual current device and surge protective devices in low-voltage consumer's installations |
| Authors |
Bok-Hee Lee ; Hoe-Gu Kim ; Hee-Yeoul Park ; Chang-Hwan Ahn |
| DOI |
http://dx.doi.org/10.5207/JIEIE.2013.27.6.075 |
| Keywords |
Surge Protective Device ; Residual Current Device ; Protection Coordination ; Surge Protection ; Protective Effect |
| Abstract |
In this paper, protection coordination between residual current devices and surge protective devices in low-voltage consumer's distribution systems are presented. In the case that a surge protrctive device(SPD) is located on the load side of an residual current device(RCD), when the surge is injected from the source side of the RCD, most of injected surge currents are split into the RCD and the protection coordination between the SPD and RCD is improper, three of 6 specimens experience unintended operation due to test impulse currents. Also when the surges is injected from the load side, a lot of the surge currents is split into the SPD, but a half of test specimens causes nuisance trip. Coordination between SPD and RCD is not valid. When installing SPD, it is important to select SPD after due consideration of the protection voltage level of metal oxide varistor embedded in RCD. It is expected that the results obtained from this work could be useful to improve the protection effects of SPD in low-voltage distribution systems. |