Digital Protection Schemes
Digital Protection Schemes
DIGITAL RELAYS
History of Protective Relay
Around 1980s the digital relay entered the market.
Compared to the Solid State Relay, the digital relay
takes the advantages of the development of
microprocessors and microcontrollers. Instead of
using analog signals, the digital relay converts all
measured analog quantities into digital signals.
Digital protection relays is a revolution step in
changing Relay technology.
In Digital Relay Microprocessors and micro
controllers are used in replacement of analogue
circuits used in static relays to implement relay
functions. Digital protection relays introduced in
1980.
However, such technology will be completely
superseded within the next five years by numerical
relays.
By the mid-1990s the solid state and
electromechanical relay had been mostly replaced by
digital relay in new construction. In distribution
applications, the replacement by the digital relay
proceeded a bit more slowly.
While the great majority of feeder relays in new
applications today are digital, the solid state relay still
sees some use where simplicity of the application
allows for simpler relays, and which allows one to
avoid the complexity of digital relays.[3], [6]
Measuring principles
Compared to static relays, digital relays introduce
Analogue to Digital Convertor (A/D conversion) of
all measured analogue quantities and use a
microprocessor to implement the protection
algorithm.
The microprocessor may use some kind of counting
technique, or use the Discrete Fourier Transform
(DFT) to implement the algorithm.
The Microprocessors used in Digital Relay have
limited processing capacity and memory compared to
that provided in numerical relays. [3], [6]
Function of Relay
The functionality tends therefore to be limited and
restricted largely to the protection function itself.
BASED
RELAY
PROTECTION
SCHEME
FOR
TRANSMISSION
LINE
BASED
ON
CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS
The fault selection algorithm is based on the autocorrelation technique of two half successive cycles
with the same polarity. For transmission lines
protection, this method needs only three line-current
measurements available at the relay location (ia, ib,
ic).
A. Correlation Coefficients Calculation
The auto-correlation coefficient is estimated as
follows for any two dependant variables, y1(x) and
y2(x) [15].
The auto-correlation coefficient (r) calculated as
follows:
- If rbc = -1
otherwise the
fault).
- If rac = -1
otherwise the
fault).
NEURAL
NETWORK
higher
reliability,
better
operational
characteristics, and a configuration that uses
replaceable units.
High demands are imposed on power
transformer protective relays. Requirements
include dependability (no missing operations),
security (no false tripping), and speed of
operation (short fault clearing time). The
operating conditions of power transformers do
not make the relaying task easy. Protection of
large power transformers is one of the most
challenging problems in the power system
relaying area. Advanced digital signal
processing techniques and artificial intelligence
(Al) approaches to power system protection
provide the means to enhance the classical
protection principles and facilitate faster, more
secure, and dependable protection for power
transformers.
Also, it is anticipated that, in the near future,
more measurements will be available to
transformer relays, owing to both substation
integration and novel sensors installed on power
transformers. All of this will change the practice
for power transformer protection. This article
briefly reviews the state of the art, but is
primarily devoted to discussion of new
approaches and future directions in digital
relaying for power transformers.
REFERENCES
[1] M. A. Rahman and B. Jeyasurya, A stateof-the-art review of transformer protection
algorithms, IEEE Trans. Power Delivery, vol.
3, pp. 534544, Apr. 1988.
[2] P. M. Anderson, Power System Protection,
Piscataway, NJ: IEEE Press, 1999.
[3] C. D. Hayward, Harmonic-Current
Restrained Relays for Transformer Differential
Protection, AIEE trans., vol. 60, pp 276, 1941.
[4] M. S. Sachdev, T. S. Sidhu, H. C. Wood, A
Digital Relaying Algorithm for Detecting
Transformer
Winding
Faults,
IEEE
Transactions on Power Deliver, vol. 4, No. 3.
July
1989.
[5] K. Yabe, Power Differential Method for
Discrimination between Fault and
Magnetizing Inrush Current in Transformers,
IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery,
Vol. 12, No. 3, July 1997.