Boundary Protection Based on S-Transform Considering Fault Factors

Abstract

Boundary protection is a protection that takes advantage of the characteristic that signals will be attenuated when passing through the “line boundary”. The location of the traps and current transformers in the structure of extra-high voltage (EHV) transmission lines makes it difficult to apply current-based travelling wave protection in engineering practice. If the protection is put into use, it is necessary to carry out a large number of engineering modifications to the existing transmission lines, which greatly increases the economic cost. And after simulation, the protection will be misjudged under weak fault conditions, and it has low reliability. After analyzing the influence of fault factors, a boundary protection method using high-frequency voltage component energy is proposed. The fault signal is processed by S-transform, and the transient voltage energy is normalized with the initial fault phase and transition resistance. The reduced characteristic quantity is used to construct a criterion to judge the fault condition of the protection line. This protection eliminates the influence of fault factors on transient protection. The ATP-Draw 6.0 simulation results based on the proposed protection scheme show that the protection scheme can distinguish internal and external faults, and can work normally under weak faults with high reliability.