Dynamic simulation inspection test for protection equipment in China

Testing the protection equipment on dynamic simulation test systems is very valuable not only for finding software bugs and design deficiencies of protection but also for performance and characteristics understanding. To strictly test different kinds of protection relay, the test systems must been designed carefully by selecting the connection and parameters of the system. The test items are designed specially for every kind of protection. This paper introduces some special technical requirements in China, and important test items for different protection schemes. Several ideas and algorithms of some protections are also compared in this paper, such as power swing blocking methods in line protection, current transformer saturation countermeasures in transformer and busbar protection, inrush currents, blocking methods in transformer protection, current transformer single-phase open detection methods, etc. Several problems appeared in the test and the reason of these problems are described and analyzed in this paper.