High-Speed Distance Relaying of the Entire Length of Transmission Lines without Signaling

Sadegh Azizi, Mingyu Sun, Gaoyuan Liu, Marjan Popov, Vladimir Terzija

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Abstract

Short-circuit faults close to either end of a transmission line, are normally cleared instantaneously by the distance relay at that end and after hundreds of milliseconds, i.e., in Zone 2 operating time, by the relay at the opposite end of the line. This sequential tripping can be accelerated on condition that a reliable communication link is available for signaling between the two line ends. This paper proposes a novel non-communication method providing high-speed distance relaying over the entire length of the protected transmission line. The inputs to the method are the protected line parameters and local voltage and current signals measured by the relay, similar to those to conventional distance relays. The proposed method accomplishes Accelerated Sequential Tripping (AST) within a couple of cycles after the opening of the remote-end circuit breaker (ORCB) of the line. To achieve this, an accurate closed-form solution is derived for the fault distance in terms of post-ORCB voltage and current phasors. For the detection of the ORCB instant, a set of proper indices are proposed. This is to verify the fault distance calculated by the relay, before issuing a trip command. The proposed method is successfully validated by conducting more than 20000 hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) tests, and also using real-life data.
Original languageEnglish
Article number8920145
Pages (from-to)1949-1959
Number of pages11
JournalIEEE Transactions on Power Delivery
Volume35 (2020)
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019

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Keywords

  • Accelerated sequential tripping (AST)
  • Distance relays
  • Opening of the remote-end circuit breaker (ORCB)
  • Real-time digital simulator (RTDS)

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