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Transient Protection for two terminals HVDC System
P V N Mohan Krishna
1
, A.Hemanth kumar Raju
2
, M.E.C.Vidya Sagar
3
1,2,3
Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, SRKR Engg college, A.P, India
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Abstract - The relation between the parameters of dc
transmission line and the variation of transient energy has
been analyzed under various fault conditions in this paper.
According to that, a new transient energy protective scheme
is proposed. It is developed based on the distributed
parameter line model in which the transient energy
distribution over the line can be obtained from the voltage
and current measurements at both terminals and the fault
can be recognized from the calculated value simply. The test
system is modelled based on the CIGRE benchmark and
considered the distributed parameters of the dc
transmission line. Comprehensive test studies show that the
performance of transient energy protection scheme is
encouraging. It can not only identify internal fault and
external faults correctly and quickly, but can also respond to
the high ground resistance fault. Finally, two main factors,
including fault resistance and transmission distance, that
affect the performance of the protection are also discussed.
Index Terms—HVDC, test and result, transient
Key Words: Transient Energy, HVDC
1. INTRODUCTION
RECENTLY, the number of high-voltage direct
current(HVDC) systems is increasing rapidly throughout
the world, due to their advantages of long distance and
large capacity power transmission, asynchronous
interconnections, and their ability to prevent inadvertent
loop flows in an interconnected ac system [1]–[3]. These
definite technical and environmental advantages make
HVDC transmission systems more attractive than high-
voltage alternating current (HVAC)systems in power
system projects. Over the last two decades, HVDC
transmission systems developed more rapidly than HVAC
transmission systems around the world. The traditional
protection system for the HVDC transmission line often
uses the voltage and its change rate to detect the ground
fault in the dc line [4]. But it is affected easily by fault
impedance. With the rapid advance of microelectronics
technology and microcomputer protections, travelling-
wave theory has been implemented and adopted in HVDC
transmission lines successfully [5]. However, travelling-
wave-based methods still have problems that limit their
application, such as lacking mathematical tools to
represent travelling wave, being easily influenced by
noise, and so on [6], [7]. Recently, based on the
characteristics of low-frequency differential transient
energy at the two ends of the dc line, a new protection
scheme for UHVDC lines is proposed . However, this paper
does not take into account the distributed parameters of
the transmission line. Infact, the typical characteristic of
modern HVDC transmission systems is the long distance;
thus, the effect of the distributed parameters cannot be
ignored and may cause the mal operation of relay
protection .A novel transient energy principle is proposed
in this paper. Based on the steady-state transmission-line
equations, the distributed parameters of the dc line have
been taken into account. The increments of transient
energy in the dc line are utilized to identify internal fault
and external fault. With PSCAD/EMTDC, the test system is
modelled considering the distributed parameters.
Comprehensive test studies show that the proposed
principle is simple, reliable, and practical. It can provide
correct responses under various fault conditions including
high ground resistance faults. Finally, the two main factors
that affect performance of the protection are also
discussed: fault resistance and transmission distance. And
the relationships between the two factors and the
sensitivity of transient energy protection have been
deduced.
This paper is organized as follows. In Section II, the
protection principle used in this paper is given. The test
system is given in Section III. Test results are given in
Section IV, followed by the conclusions in Section V.
1.1 TRANSIENT ENERGY PROTECTION PRINCIPLE
FOR TWO TERMINAL HVDC SYSTEM.
Fig -1: Diagram of the HVDC transmission system.
Before Fig.1 shows a main structure diagram of the typical
HVDC transmission system. The dc transmission-line
protection devices are installed at the two ends of the line
M and N.
,
and
,
are dc currents and dc voltages
at M and N, respectively. The positive directions of the
aforementioned electrical vectors are defined in the
diagram.
The transient energy of the measuring point from
to
is
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∫
ሺሻ
(1)