Application of PMUs for high impedance fault detection of distribution network by considering effect of transformer vector group

Author

Zanjani, Mohsen Ghalei Monfared ; Karegar, Hossein Kazemi ; Niaki, Hasan Ashrafi ; Zanjani, Mina Ghelei Monfared

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Shahid Beheshti Univ. (SBU), Tehran, Iran

fYear

2013

fDate

April 30 2013-May 1 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

This paper presents an algorithm for high impedance fault (HIF) detection by phasor measurement units (PMUs) that are basic elements in wide area monitoring and protection systems (WAMPS). This method uses output current phasors of PMU for detection of HIF. At first, change of current detects by summation of errors between sampled data and estimated samples that are obtained from output phasors of PMU,Then in order to certain that this change is HIF, 3rd harmonic phase of fault current is used to discriminate HIF from normal condition such as load increasing/decreasing. Effects of transformer vector group on 3r harmonic phase are also studied. Several cases are simulated in EMTP&MATLAB to evaluate accuracy of method.

Keywords

phasor measurement; power distribution faults; power transformers; EMTP; HIF detection; Matlab; PMU application; WAMPS; distribution network high impedance fault detection; phasor measurement units; transformer vector group; wide area monitoring and protection systems; Conductors; Harmonic analysis; Impedance; Measurement units; Switches; Transforms; Vectors; 3rd harmonic phase; Transformer vector group; high impedance fault; phasor measurement units;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical Power Distribution Networks (EPDC), 2013 18th Conference on

Conference_Location

Kermanshah

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0092-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EPDC.2013.6565973

Filename

6565973