A distance protection scheme not affected by transient characteristic of capacitor voltage transformer for HV long transmission line

Affected by transient characteristic of capacitor voltage transformer (CVT), the distance protection for HV transmission line is easily to mal-operate due to transient overreach, thus the secure and stable operation of power grid is affected. A new distance protection scheme that is not affected by the transient characteristics of CVT is proposed and its principle is as following: firstly, on the basis that the CVT can transmit and transform power frequency phasor, by means of the matrix pencil based accurate power frequency phasor extraction method the power frequency phasors of voltage and current at the position where the protection is installed are calculated; secondly, the voltage and current at the position of the long distance transmission line, where the protection is set, are calculated by Bergeron model; finally, coordinating with directional element and taking the setting point as the observation point, the fault point is located by traditional distance protection algorithm. The proposed principle is not affected by transient characteristic of CVT and the impacts of distributed parameters of the long distance transmission line are taken into account, thus the proposed distance protection scheme possesses a better performance, and the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is validated by simulation results. ©, 2014, Power System Technology Press. All right reserved.