
396 CHAPTER 10 SYMMETRICAL FAULTS
marked x have the same potential, and so they can be joined together to yield
the equivalent circuit of Fig. 10.
7
(b) with a single voltage source Vr as shown. If
the switch S is open between bus
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and the reference node, there is no short
circuit and no current ows in any branch of the network. When S is closed to
represen t the fault on bus ®, curren t ows in the circuit toward bus ®. This
current is
I
f
=
IZ
kk'
which agrees with Eq. C1 0.19), and it induces a voltage
drop (Zj
k
l Z
kk
)V
r
in the direclion ji'o/11 t he reference node toward bus . The
voltage from bus to the reference changes therefore by the amount
-(Zj
k
IZ
kk
)V
f
so that the voltage at bus during the fault is V
I
-
(Z
j
k
IZ
kk
)
, which is consistent with Eq. (10.20).
Thus, by substituting appropriate numerical values for the impedances in
the simple equivalent circuit of Fig. 10.7(b), we can calculate the bus voltages of
the system before and after the fault occurs. With switch S open in the circuit,
the voltages at bus
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and the representative bus are equal to Vf. The same
uniform voltage prole occurs in Fig. 10.6 if there are no prefault currents so
that E� and E� equal Vf' If S is closed in Fig. 10.7(b), the circuit reects the
voltage of representative bus with respect to reference while the faul t is on
bus ®. Therefore, if a three-phase short-circuit fault occurs at bus ® of a
large-scale network, we can calculate the current in the fault and the voltage at
any of the unfaulted buses simply by inserting the proper impedance values into
elementary circuits like those in Fig. 10.7. The following example illustrates the
procedure.
Example 10.4. A ve-bus network has generators at buses and
rated 270
and 22
5 MVA, respectively. The generator subtransient reactances plus the
reactances of the transformers con necting them to the buses are each 0.30 per unit
on the generator rating as base. The turns ratios of the transformers are such that
the voltage base in each generator circuit is equal to the voltage rating of the
generator. Line impedances in per unit on a 100-MVA system base are shown in
Fig. 10.8. l resistances are neglected. Using the bus impedance matrix for the
network which includes the generalor and transformer react,
I
I1CCS, fi nd the
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)0.126
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1.0�
1.0�
)0.168
jO.126
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)0.210