Settings of ROCOF relays for islanding detection of wind turbine

Author

Aghdam, Tohid Soleimani ; Karegar, Hossein Kazemi

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Shahid Beheshti Univ. G.C, Tehran, Iran

Volume

2

fYear

2011

Firstpage

1402

Lastpage

1405

Abstract

One of the most important methods in the field of anti islanding protection of wind turbine is rate of change of frequency (ROCOF). When a self-excitation induction generator is islanded, voltage and frequency will vary and in most cases, exceed from legal range that can be detected by voltage relays, frequency relays and ROCOF relays. In this paper ROCOF relay performance in case of induction generator is studied. However there are some condition called non detection zone that cause voltage and frequency remain in allowed interval and islanding situation doesn´t recognized which leads to problems in power system. Performance of a ROCOF relay and its non-detection zone for an induction generator analyzed. A 0.66Mw, 690V induction generator and ROCOF relay were simulated in MATLAB/SIMULINK and characteristic curves of ROCOF relay obtained.

Keywords

asynchronous generators; distributed power generation; power generation protection; relay protection; relays; wind turbines; Matlab; ROCOF relay; Simulink; anti islanding protection; frequency relay; islanding detection; nondetection zone; power 0.66 MW; power system protection; rate of change of frequency; self-excitation induction generator; voltage 690 kV; voltage relay; wind turbine; Induction generators; Reactive power; Relays; Wind power generation; Wind turbines; Anti islanding protection; Non detection zone; ROCOF; Wind Turbine;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Power System Automation and Protection (APAP), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9622-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APAP.2011.6180734

Filename

6180734