Unbalance protection of fuseless, split-wye, grounded, shunt capacitor banks

In recent years, a large number of electric utilities have been implementing fuseless split-wye grounded capacitor banks in lieu of the traditional externally fused bank. This change in philosophy has forced many protection engineers to research new methods of calculating the quantities needed to apply unbalance protection. This paper presents a novel method of calculating the unbalance current produced by fuseless capacitor unit failures as well as some general background information regarding fuseless split-wye grounded capacitor bank technology and unbalanced protection. Index Terms--Power capacitors, power system protection.