Non-unit protection for HVDC grids : an analytical approach for wavelet transform-based schemes

Psaras, Vasileios and Tzelepis, Dimitrios and Vozikis, Dimitrios and Adam, Grain and Burt, Graeme (2020) Non-unit protection for HVDC grids : an analytical approach for wavelet transform-based schemes. IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery. ISSN 0885-8977 (https://doi.org/10.1109/TPWRD.2020.3024818)

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Abstract

Speed and selectivity of DC fault protection are critical for High-Voltage DC (HVDC) grids and present significant technical and economic challenges. Therefore, this paper proposes a non-unit protection solution that detects and discriminates DC faults based on frequency domain analysis of the transient period of DC faults. The representation of a generic HVDC grid section and the corresponding DC-side fault signatures in the frequency domain form the basis of a generalized approach for analytically designing a protection scheme based on Wavelet Transform (WT). The proposed solution is adaptive within its design stage and offers general applicability and immunity to system changes, while the protection settings are configured for optimized performance. The scheme is validated through offline simulations in PSCAD/EMTDC and the technical feasibility of the algorithm in the real world is demonstrated through the use of real-time digital simulation (using RTDS) and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) testing. Both offline and real-time simulations demonstrate that the scheme is able to detect and discriminate between internal and external faults at a significantly high speed, while remaining sensitive to high impedance faults and robust to external disturbances and outside noise.

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Psaras, Vasileios, Tzelepis, Dimitrios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4263-7299, Vozikis, Dimitrios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7196-0442, Adam, Grain ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1263-9771 and Burt, Graeme ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0315-5919;
  • Item type:Article
    ID code:74006
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    18 September 2020
    Published
    18 September 2020
    Published Online
    28 August 2020
    Accepted
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    Subjects:Technology > Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
    Department:Faculty of Engineering > Electronic and Electrical Engineering
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:29 Sep 2020 14:14
    Last modified:20 Nov 2024 10:00
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/74006
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