Improving the Efficiency of Earth Fault Detection by Fault Current Passage Indicators in Medium-Voltage Compensated Overhead Networks
[ 1 ] Instytut Elektroenergetyki, Wydział Inżynierii Środowiska i Energetyki, Politechnika Poznańska | [ P ] employee
2022
scientific article
english
- earth fault detection
- fault current passage indicator
- compensated MV network
- efficiency improving
- high-resistance fault
- zwarcia doziemne
- sygnalizator przepływu prądu zwarciowego
- skompensowana sieć SN
- poprawa skuteczności
- zwarcie wysokooporowe
EN The article presents a method for detecting earth faults in a compensated medium-voltage network, which can be used especially in fault current passage indicators, but also in standard protection devices. The method is based on the adaptation process of the zero-sequence current protection setting, with the adaptation factor depending on the current value of the zero-sequence voltage. In this article, a comparative analysis of the classical and adaptive zero-sequence current criterion is conducted, taking into account the errors of the measuring system. The results of simulations performed in the PSCad environment are also presented. For a representative set of example short circuits, it was shown that the effectiveness of the presented criterion can be more than 50% higher than that of the standard criteria, taking into account the range of detected transition resistances. A comparison of the proposed method with admittance criteria was also drawn, and it was shown that it is suitable for the detection of high-resistance earth faults.
9007-1 - 9007-19
article number: 9007
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