Improving the Efficiency of Earth Fault Detection by Fault Current Passage Indicators in Medium-Voltage Compensated Overhead Networks

Autor: Bartosz Olejnik, Beata Zięba
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Energies, Vol 15, Iss 23, p 9007 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1996-1073
DOI: 10.3390/en15239007
Popis: 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.
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