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With their increasing number, it is getting important that decentralized and renewable energy sources are supporting the stabilization of the system voltage after short voltage dropouts. Often, in the past, these generators were disconnected during network faults. This is not adequate anymore, as it would lead to a loss of a considerable amount of feed-in power. However, if the generators stay connected,...
The concentration of electric power at system buses adds to both the need for high-speed tripping in case of faults and the need to avoid false tripping in case of external faults. This combined need for both superior dependability and security has led to many enhancements and system modifications in bus protection. Bus configurations with multiple zones are particularly difficult to provide with...
A common practice for improving electric service reliability is to provide an alternate source of supply. On the distribution system, two feeders — each with one or more mid-line overcurrent protective devices — can be tied together through a normally-open tie point to restore service to unfaulted sections of line. Conventional looped distribution systems rely on overcurrent coordination to ensure...
This paper presents an analysis of the main operating conditions that may lead to inappropriate differential protection operation. These conditions were simulated using the Alternative Transients Program (ATP) and the model of a real system. The saturable transformer was the main component of the ATP/EMTP simulations. The saturation and hysteresis effects are represented by a non-linear model of the...
This paper presents a novel protective concept for EHV Three-terminal transmission line, teed circuit. The proposed protective relaying techniques use the fourth sequential overlapping derivative, SOD, concept at all line terminals. The SOD signals represent the transient components initiated due to fault occurrence. Such signals are free of both dc and fundamental components. Two protective relaying...
This paper presents a novel approach designed for centralize substation level protection to determine the faulty feeder in a distribution network In opposite to phase-to-earth faults in the transmission networks (HV), which neutral points are solidly earthed, fault-loops in a fault-to-earth case in MV distribution networks have big impedance. Additionally during the earth-fault the transient component...
Magnitude and duration of voltage sags are the most important two factors to the Lower Voltage Ride Through (LVRT) capacity of the wind generator. Since most voltage sags are caused by the system faults, and sag durations are controlled by the tripping time of overcurrent relay in power collection lines based on the sags' magnitude. The specification of the LVRT capacity of wind generator is introduced...
On distribution systems similar to that shown in Figure 1, in the event of a single phase to earth fault, the source protection will trip on earth fault. After the source has cleared, an unearthed network is left, backfed via the primary substation. Other than a very low level charging current, no fault current will flow. UK Power Networks detect this by neutral voltage displacement (NVD). Where a...
In this paper wide-area protection is discussed in smart microgrids. Smart grids inherently propose opportunities to enhance the protection of the lines due to the communication capabilities that present. Smart distribution microgrids would have a communication infrastructure that promotes the performance of their protection decisions. The paper considers a sample microgrid with the required communication...
In this paper, the application of static series compensator as a fault current limiter is proposed to preserve the integrity of the overcurrent relays' settings in a microgrid for both modes of operations, i.e., utility-grid connected and autonomous (islanded). Static series compensator could be multiple low-power single-phase inverters that attach to the overhead conductor and dynamically control...
In this paper, the capability of the numerical relays within the microgrid is sophisticatedly used to adapt the settings of the relays to the status of the microgrid. Different settings for the overcurrent relays are calculated off-line and saved in the relays. Whenever the microgrid is disconnected from the grid, the settings are automatically changed to the associated group of settings. This would...
Transformer differential protection schemes normally use multi slope characteristics to provide stability during CT saturation with 2nd harmonic restraint or blocking for inrush conditions. This paper presents new algorithms that have been developed to improve the performance of the differential protection. Extensive testing has been used to demonstrate that the transient bias algorithm can reduce...
In the last two decades there has been a continuous increase in the amount of Distributed Generation (DG) connected to the power network. This has resulted in a number of technical challenges for network protection including: sympathetic tripping of DG interface protection; blinding of feeder over-current (OC) protection; and deterioration of feeder OC protection grading. While the available literature...
This paper aims to present the modeling and simulation of numerical differential protection of power transformers using the software ATP/ATPDraw and its MODELS environment. In order to validate the relay model, simulations were carried out using a simplified electrical power system whose parameters were obtained from a real system. The results reveal the advantages of using this type of modeling,...
At present, gas protection and current differential protection are generally used as the main protection for traction transformer in China high-speed railway. Overcurrent protection with busbar low-voltage start-up is used as the backup protection installed at HV side and LV side of transformer. This paper introduces the principle of overcurrent protection with busbar low-voltage start-up, and then...
This paper presents a new impedance based fault location method in the case of phase to phase and three phase faults. This method utilized the measured impedance by distance relay and super imposed current factor, which is the ratio of post-fault current to super imposed current, to discriminate the fault position on the line. This method is robust against the fault resistance. The presented method...
Injection-based 100% stator earth-fault protection has been used for many years. However traditionally signals with frequency between 10Hz and 25Hz have been injected into the stator winding. To inject such a signal, either a dedicated grounding transformer with secondary grounding resistor or injection on primary side of the grounding circuit, is normally used. This paper will present a novel approach...
To feed electric train, the structure of traction power supply system is very different from utility grid. The single-phase traction loads result in some problems, such as negative sequence, harmonics, reactive power and crossing neutral sections. Based on the existing traction power supply system, the active power filter is used to construct cophase traction power supply system. It not only eliminates...
IEC 61850 is the new standard for communications in substations that defines a new generation of protection applications based on high speed peer-to-peer communications between different substation devices. Accelerated protection schemes use permissive or blocking signals exchanged between relays at the two or more ends of the protected transmission line in order to provide fast fault clearing for...
This paper proposes a Multi-agent System (MAS) approach to coordinate overcurrent relays, aiming to protect distribution systems with distributed generators. The connection of distributed generation (DG) units causes a reduction in the efficacy of protection systems coordination and, in some cases, an increase of operating times. Coordination studies aim to guarantee the protection selectivity in...
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