An adaptive three-phase reclosure scheme for shunt reactor-compensated transmission lines based on the change of current spectrum

Abstract

In this paper, a new three-phase adaptive reclosing scheme for transmission lines with shunt reactors is proposed to identify fault nature and determine the arc extinction time under the single and double-phase-to-ground faults. According to the fact that the faulted phase currents of shunt reactors contain only one oscillating frequency before the fault extinction and contain other two different oscillating frequencies when the fault is extinguished, this change of current frequency can be used to distinguish transient faults. When sampling rate is an integral multiple of the faulted phase current frequency of shunt reactors under permanent faults, an abrupt increase of currents even harmonics which is caused by spectral leakage of the DFT algorithm under non-synchronous sampling can lead to identify transient faults and three-phase reclosing. Electromagnetic Transient Program simulation results verify the correctness of the frequency spectrum characteristic analysis of the faulted currents of shunt reactor. The feasibility of the proposed scheme is also tested under different fault condition.