Impact of midpoint STATCOM on the coordination between generator distance phase backup protection and generator capability curves

Author

Elsamahy, M. ; Faried, S.O. ; Ramakrishna, G.

Author_Institution

Power Syst. Res. Group, Univ. of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

fYear

2010

fDate

25-29 July 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

In this paper, investigations are carried out to explore the impact of a midpoint STATCOM on the coordination between the generator distance phase backup protection (function 21) and the generator capability curve. The results of these investigations have shown that the midpoint STATCOM has an adverse effect on such coordination. Such an impact varies according to the fault type, the fault location and the generator loading. The dynamic simulations of a test benchmark have been conducted using the PSCAD/EMTDC software.

Keywords

power generation faults; power system CAD; power system protection; static VAr compensators; PSCAD/EMTDC software; dynamic simulations; fault location; generator capability curve; generator distance phase backup protection; generator loading; midpoint STATCOM; Generator distance phase backup protection; Static Synchronous Compensator (STATCOM); coordination between generator protection and capability curve;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power and Energy Society General Meeting, 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

Minneapolis, MN

ISSN

1944-9925

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6549-1

Electronic_ISBN

1944-9925

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PES.2010.5590134

Filename

5590134