Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER DELIVERY
Volume 31, Issue 2, Pages 820-828Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRD.2015.2422145
Keywords
HVDC grid; nonunit protection; open protection zone; power system fault; power system protection; voltage-source converter (VSC) high-voltage direct current (HVDC)
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- Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO)
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This paper deals with nonunit protection of HVDC grids by proposing a set of parameters that characterizes the open protection zones together with an efficient method to determine the thresholds on these parameters. Selective HVDC grid protection schemes must detect and discriminate faults within the first milliseconds of the fault transient and consequently differ considerably from existing ac protection schemes. Due to the accompanying speed requirement, primary protection is expected to be based on open protection zones as communication delay impedes fast operation. In this paper, the principles of the nonunit protection scheme are developed based on reflection of a traveling wave at an inductive termination. Next, the method to obtain the protection scheme thresholds is elaborated. The method accurately calculates the thresholds for HVDC grids with an arbitrary topology. A sensitivity analysis of these thresholds toward grid and fault parameters demonstrates the applicability of the proposed protection scheme in cable-based HVDC grids with inductive cable termination. The results obtained with the reduced grid model are validated by comparison against simulations using a detailed model implemented in PSCAD.
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