A New Simple Method to Avoid Maloperation of Transformer Restricted Earth Fault
A New Simple Method to Avoid Maloperation of Transformer Restricted Earth Fault
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Babol Noshirvani, University of Technology, Babol, Iran
PAPER INFO A B S T R A C T
Paper history: The restricted earth fault (REF) protection is provided for electrical power transformer in order to sense
Received 28 April 2021 internal earth faults, mainly because it is more sensitive than the main differential protection. However,
Received in revised form 09 June 2021
Accepted 28 July 2021
The REF relay may maloperate when current transformer (CT) saturation happens following a severe
external fault. In this paper, a new simple algorithm is proposed for REF protection scheme which is
realized by considering four fundamental conditions. These conditions are defined based on the
Keywords: differential and neutral currents as well as sum of phase currents. When these conditions are
Power Transformer Protection simultaneously satisfied, the relay detects the internal ground fault. This algorithm is implemented and
Restricted Earth Fault evaluated by MATLAB program based on obtained result data from simulation of a real power system
Jiles-Atherton Model using PSCAD/EMTDC software package. The well-known Jiles-Atherton (JA) model is used to simulate
Current Transformer Saturation the transient behavior of CTs. The satisfactory results obtained from exhaustive investigation justify the
high security of the proposed protection scheme.
doi: 10.5829/ije.2021.34.09c.04
NOMENCLATURE
𝐼𝑑 Differential current 𝐼𝑠𝑢𝑚 Residual current
𝐼𝑛 Neutral current IdTH Threshold value of differential current
𝐼𝑎 , 𝐼𝑏 , 𝐼𝑐 Phase currents InTH Threshold value of neutral current
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Figure 3. The proposed algorithm for detecting internal -2
ground fault from external faults
-4
id (t)
4. SIMULATION RESULTS
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In this section, initially, the performance of the proposed
method is compared to a conventional method with -8
With Satuarable CTs
recommended setting [20] for a number of fault events. It With Ideal CTs
must be noted, IdTH is set to 10% which is the minimum -10
100 150 200 250 300
value for differential current in REF relay setting [20]. Time (ms)
Also, 1% as a very small value is chosen for InTH . By Figure 4. Differential current during the external fault
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Operation Region 25
3
20 Operation Region
2 15
10
1 5
0
0 0 5 10 15
2 3 0 4 1 Restrain Current (PU)
Restraint Current (PU)
Figure 5. Caculated current trajectory for the external fault Figure 8. Calculated current trajectory for the severe internal
based on the conventional method fault based on the conventional method
Trip Signal
0.6
0 0
150 0
200 250 50
300 100 9580 100 105 85 11090
Time (ms) Time (ms)
Figure 6. Trip signals of the proposed and conventional Figure 9. Trip signals of the proposed and conventional
methods for the external fault methods for the severe internal fault
-20
0.15
100 150 200 250 300
Time (ms) 0.1
Figure 7. Differential current during the severe internal fault
0.05
id (t)
0
the operation without any issue. The conventional
method needs only 1.9 ms to detect the fault, exactly -0.05
similar to new method (see Figure 9). It means that the
fault detection time is less than one cycle, for this severe -0.1
fault case.
Figure 10 indicates the differential current during the 100 150 200 250 300
light internal fault. As can be seen in Figure 11, the Time (ms)
current trajectory computed based on the modeled Figure 10. Differential current during the light internal fault
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Persian Abstract
چکیده
حفاظت خطای زمین محدود شده برای آشکارسازی خطاهای داخلی زمین ترانسفورماتور قدرت بکارگرفته میشود بطوریکه جهت این کار از حفاظت اصلی دیفرانسیل حساستر
می باشد .با این حال ،رله خطای زمین محدود شده ممکن است بدلیل اشباع ترانسفورماتورهای جریان حین خطای خارجی عملکرد کاذب داشته باشد .در این مقاله ،یک الگوریتم
ساده برای این طرح حفاظتی پیشنهاد میگردد که بر پایه چهار شرط اساسی استوار میباشد .این شرایط بر مبنای جریانهای دیفرانسیل ،نول و مجموع جریان فازها تعریف
می گردند .هنگامیکه این شرایط بطور همزمان برقرارند ،بمعنای خطای داخلی زمین میباشد .این الگوریتم در محیط نرمافزار MATLABپیادهسازی و ارزیابی شده و برای
این کار از نتایج شبیهسازی یک سیستم قدرت واقعی در نرمافزار PSCAD/EMTDCاستفاده گردیده است .مدل مشهور جیلز اثرتون برای شبیهسازی رفتار گذرای
ترانسفوورماتورهای جریان استفاده میشود .نتایج حاصله امنیت باالی طرح پیشنهادی را تایید مینماید.