Identification of magnetizing inrush currents of power transformers based on features of flux locus

In this paper, a new method of identifying magnetizing inrush currents based on features of flux locus is presented. The measured currents and voltages of transformer windings are used to reconstruct the locus of main flux. Its variation range then is examined if within or not the saturation zone by extracting the flux locus features. Based on this, a new criterion of identifying inrush current is proposed. Both the EMTP simulation and experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed discrimination algorithm.