Distributed photonic instrumentation for power system protection and control

Orr, Philip and Fusiek, Grzegorz and Niewczas, Pawel and Booth, Campbell D. and Dysko, Adam and Kawano, Fumio and Nishida, Tomonori and Beaumont, Phil (2015) Distributed photonic instrumentation for power system protection and control. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 64 (1). pp. 19-26. ISSN 0018-9456 (https://doi.org/10.1109/TIM.2014.2329740)

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Abstract

We report on recent developments in hybrid optical protection schemes that make use of passive fiber Bragg grating-based transducers for the distributed measurement of voltage and current. In addition to the details of the hybrid optical sensor technology, and its full integration with a commercial busbar protection relay, we report on the first-time laboratory demonstration of a centralized three-ended unit protection scheme featuring hybrid optical sensors capable of passive and wide-area coverage. Furthermore, we discuss the impact of this technology on present and future protection applications that may be improved or enabled by the proposed scheme.