Table of Contents

1. Overview
2. Normative references
3. Definitions, acronyms, and abbreviations
4. Need for breaker failure protection
5. Breaker failure modes
6. Breaker failure protection schemes
7. Breaker failure design considerations
8. Factors influencing breaker failure protection settings
9. Communications-based breaker failure protection
10. Breaker failure relay and breaker failure protection
    scheme testing
Annex A (informative) - Bibliography
Annex B (informative) - Breaker failure setting example

Abstract

Specifies methods to protect a power system from faults that are not cleared because of failure of a power circuit breaker to operate or interrupt when called upon by a protective relay.

General Product Information

Published
Document Type	Standard
Status	Current
Publisher	Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers
Pages
ISBN
Supersedes	IEEE DRAFT C37.119 : D7 2005