Many capacitor banks are operated without surge arresters. However, there are a variety of reasons to instal arresters: To prevent capacitor failures at a breaker restrike or failure. To limit the risk of repeated breaker restrikes. To prolong the service life of the capacitors by limiting high overvoltages.
Generally speaking, capacitor protection by surge arresters has been a difficult task before Z n O arresters became available. The high discharge currents and possible energies associated with an arrester operation at a capacitor bank heavily stressed the spark gaps in a S i C gapped arrester.
Installation of arresters also minimizes probability of restrike, especially of multiple restrikes. This edited past contribution to INMR by Tim Rastall and Kerim Ozer of Enspec Power in the United Kingdom discussed application of surge arresters for mitigation of overvoltages on MV & HV capacitors based on single restrike.
The surge arrester limits the overvoltage across the capacitors C5/6 at 1.9p.u.. In the case of multiple restrikes this overvoltage level remains constant. A voltage escalation across the capacitor and thus a capacitor failure is prevented.
The following results are obtained: A single-stage capacitor bank (Fig.1) is used to vary the three-phase bank size in order to evaluate the effect on the surge arrester energy stress. Depending on the arrester arrangement, a linear increase of the energy dissipated in the arrester is obtained.
With the introduction of Z n O surge arresters, it is possible to meet any energy demand by simply paralleling the necessary number of blocks even if the procedure to ensure current sharing is quite sophisticated. Switching surges of different origins can occur but, in general, it is the restrike cases that result in the highest arrester duties.
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