On series compensation impact on line protection and TRV

Author

Grünbaum, Rolf ; Wikström, Kent ; Stromberg, Goran

Author_Institution

FACTS, ABB AB, Vasteras, Sweden

fYear

2009

fDate

4-6 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Series capacitors are a well established concept within electric power transmission, finding ever increasing use in EHV and UHV transmission grids to provide benefits such as improved voltage and transient stability of long lines as well as improved power division between parallel lines. Series capacitors in a transmission line can have a significant effect on the transient voltage that appears across the contacts of a circuit breaker when opening to clear a fault and the series capacitor into the line makes the line protection more complex due to the abrupt change in line series impedance at the series capacitor. These topics are discussed in this paper.

Keywords

Capacitors; Circuit breakers; Circuit faults; Circuit stability; Distributed parameter circuits; Power system transients; Power systems; Power transmission lines; Protection; Voltage; Adjacent lines; Distance protection; Fast Protective Device; MOV protection; Protection scheme; Series compensation; Voltage reversal; transient recovery voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

North American Power Symposium (NAPS), 2009

Conference_Location

Starkville, MS, USA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4428-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4429-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NAPS.2009.5484083

Filename

5484083